Case 393
I have been having panic attacks and phobias since the year 2000.... Two of those years I was fine without antidepressants, but now I don’t know what happened that has made my anxiety worse than before. I am on edge. For example, one time I drove a different car and got so nervous and anxious that I had to stay home that afternoon. I had to take anti-anxiety medication to return to normal.... Likewise, everything [...]
Case 392
I have been married for two years. Ten months ago, my husband started verbally and psychologically abusing me. Four months ago I left him. We have a five-month-old child. Recently my husband has been contacting me to say that he has changed.... He has been treating me differently, and during our time apart he has not neglected our child. He says that we should get back together, that everything will be different, that he loves [...]
Case 391
I am thirty years old. This year has been very difficult. Actually, my whole life has been difficult.... I was abused from a very early age, the sexual abuse by a family member until I was fifteen. As long as I can remember, I have lived a bad and dirty life.... I feel like I’m unworthy, and wonder who could ever love me. I feel guilty because I have bad desires. I’m confused. Today [...]
Case 390
I have a fifteen-year-old daughter. Her father died when she was seven, and since then she has been disrespectful and rebellious. She now has a twenty-one-year-old boyfriend. Not long ago she secretly went off with him, and the next day came home drunk, having had sex with him. Her paternal grandmother and paternal uncles say that I should give her to the boyfriend so she can live with him. I don’t know what to do. [...]
Case 389
I was married for almost twenty years. I got involved several times with married women, and they ended up getting divorced from their husbands. As a result, my own marriage ended. I also had sexual relations that were a high risk to my health and my emotional stability... which now affect my mind, my soul, and my body. I have a great deal of regret for having caused several divorces in addition to my own, [...]
Case 388
I have a wife and a son.... I think I am an alcoholic because every week I drink, and then I feel sad and disconsolate, and beg God to deliver me from alcohol. I think that it is not good for my son to grow up watching me drink. Right now I work far away, but I am thinking of bringing my family here and I don’t want my son to see me inebriated.... I [...]
Case 387
When I was thirteen, I rebelled and strayed away from God. I committed a lot of sins. One of them was to bring a daughter into the world, and another was to have an abortion. Now I am sorry, but it is too late.... I was really bad off and had plans to commit suicide, but my daughter gives me strength.... I have the desire to go to a church to hear a message [...]
Case 386
I am a forty-eight-year-old single man with no children. Two years ago I met a woman who is now fifty years old.... We love each other and want to get married, and she is willing to come and live in my country. The only problem is that I’m afraid she can’t have children at her age, and my dream is to have a child. I don’t want to disappoint her, as she is very excited [...]
Case 385
I am a thirty-seven-year-old man. I have two children from two different relationships. The oldest is eighteen, and the youngest is thirteen. I am living with the youngest and her mother. I haven’t communicated with the oldest at all. He knows that I exist and he has my last name. I am sorry, but I don’t know how to begin to ask for forgiveness. We have seen each other in passing... and only waved. I [...]