emotional pain

How can I not know what I am feeling? How can I not know what I am feeling?

If I'd been more honest with myself and with her, maybe we wouldn't have broken up.
  • I'm perpetuating the cycle of emotional abuse

    I was a victim of rage and violence and now I can't control my temper.
  • My boyfriend danced dirty to make me jealous

    I asked him why he was doing the bump and grind with a woman, and he said he thought it would get him laid.
  • I feel terrible about leaving but I have to go

    My boyfriend has done wonderful things for me, but I cannot stand to be in this relationship any longer.
  • My sister is having an illicit affair

    I'm sworn to secrecy, but I think maybe I should tell the rest of my family.
  • At what point can I just give up on my son?

    As a mom and as a daughter I'm at the end of my rope.
  • Head case

    Paula Kamen has had a headache for 14 years. Her unlikely and often hilarious memoir explores the secret history of women and pain, and introduces us to a new (but very old) social phenomenon: The Tired Girls.
  • I got involved with a married alcoholic and now I'm all messed up

    I always get over relationships quickly, but this one has left me shattered and angry and baffled.
  • Sylvia and Ruth

    Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse was therapist for the most famous, and famously troubled, poet of our time. Shortly before her own death, she agreed to speak about her treatment of Sylvia Plath, and the regrets that still haunted her decades after Plath's suicide.
  • Is therapy dead?

    A new book argues that the decline in long-term psychotherapy -- along with our reliance on medication and quick fixes -- is a public health tragedy.
  • "Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide" by Lisa Lieberman

    A new book argues that suicide can be a rational response to an intolerable world -- and says that by medicalizing suicides, we rob them of their free will.
  • "Oh Pleez GAWD I can't handle the success!"

    Excerpts from Kurt Cobain's journals (published in Newsweek) reveal an oddball genius battling severe physical pain -- and imagining a Nirvana reunion tour sponsored by Depends.
  • A cooler head prevails

    Psychologist Robert Firestone rejects the quick fix for bad marriage.

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