Lifestyle Archive

Dear Counsellor,

My spouse and I need to manage our anger.

DENISE SALMON is not giving in to self-pity as she is moving past the devastation that would have shaken the faith of many persons. She does not remember the accident because she was unconscious during the ordeal.

What is a pelvic examination? I have been told that I will have to do one when I go to the hospital next week, but I do not know what it is! I am only 19.

My son has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and he is getting unruly and defiant. I want to manage my household so that no one feels alienated, ignored, or persecuted.

Dear Counsellor,

I have a problem with my teenage daughter. She is depressed and refuses to go with me to the therapist. What can I do?

I remember I once went a week without electricity. It took more than a little bit of effort to not lose my mind entirely. As I remember it, the cold sweats started after the first day. By the third, my hallucinations were getting out of hand and my dreams...

FOR MOST people living in Mount Zion, located just about two miles before reaching Simon in Clarendon, farming is their main source of income. However, while he does engage in some planting of crops, for Seymour 'Hibo' Louden, shoemaking and repairs are his main source of income.

Q: I am a guy of 19. I am still a virgin, and I am getting slightly desperate, Doc! All my friends have had sex, so I am the only one in my group who hasn't. So I have been thinking. I know that in Kingston there are 'commercial ladies' who have sex with you for a fee. Do you think that I should go there for the evening and lose my virginity with one of these women?

The following is feedback to last week's Roving with Lalah in downtown Kingston...

Dear Counsellor, My son is not doing well in school.

My boyfriend and I have been trying to get pregnant for three years now.

NOT EVEN the frequent outbreak of violence, which plagued Newlands, Portmore, St Catherine, when Fabian Taylor was growing up in the troubled community could propel him to take his eyes off his goal.