My girlfriend of 9 months has nearly crippling anxiety, which has gone untreated until the middle of last year. She started taking a new medication a few months ago, and it doesn't seem to be working. She started having panic attacks, which she never had previously, and she is far more moody and...

Background I am a computer programmer working as a graduate student under a biochemistry department in a university affiliated hospital. So far I have had a very successful career, writing novel and published data mining algorithms on top of programming hardware for spectrometers. I am also tall...

A former partner reached out to me today with one of those... Sorry that things didn't work out, let's be friends ... sort of things. Which in most cases I wouldn't have a problem with. I try to maintain friendships with former partners where possible, in cases where it seems like we could ...

I'm currently organising a board game night. This is an iteration of a weekly board game night amongst a rather loose group of friends, but this one is something of a bigger deal: it's happening at a friend's place on the weekend, instead of at uni on a weeknight. There might be drinking, and par...

As for the topic, if possible I'd be greatful for general answer and more specific one regarding following situation: My girlfriend has a clinicly diagnosed depression (she attends visits with psychiatrist and is taking medications). Because of that she often has very bad mood (nowadays it's les...

My partner talks to me a lot (about their day, work etc.). We have been together 10 years but I don't like to talk much. How can I stop them talking to me? More info: we used to talk more at beginning but now I am bored of same conversation all the time.

When it comes to people in our life I really believe in the rooms concept. Who ever is with us, is just because we have daily or repeated connection to that particular room say it college, school, work place office etc. I'm not counting social media people because I understand these friendships a...

A couple of friends and colleagues, who have the habit to ask me this question, without providing any context of why they ask. If it was the case of "Where are you? Are going to X and we can pick you up", I'll gladly respond if I'm available, but a simple question just for curiosity is uncomforta...

Yesterday Question 15411 had a fairly highly rated answer that I thought was the best answer. There was a "please back this up" comment on that answer. Today that answer is completely gone. Is there any way to determine why this has happened, or to request a "re-review"? Or to see an earlier ...

I have a group of friends who I sit with on the bus. Usually, they have fun talking while I watch and listen, which I'm perfectly fine with. From time to time I join in to their conversation, which usually involves a fair amount of teasing ("banter"), which inevitably involves me at some point. O...

A friend I work with every day is moving away to another country. My workday gets bearable because of that friend and I am not really close with other people at work. Now that I know that the friend is moving away, every time we hang out I can't help but feel sad about the future and even wonder ...

In the past I was invited to a game of truth or dare, where you need to either answer a question truthfully, or perform a "dare", both of which are set by other players. I was selected first, and as I did not know almost anybody there, I asked this girl what was her best friend. Then everbody lau...