Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Dr. Norquist: Lately I have been feeling miserably down on myself. I didn’t get a job offer that I thought would come through and I can’t seem to stop feeling like a failure. When I feel this way, I have trouble doing anything. It keeps me from trying again. I don’t like this about …
Dear Dr. Norquist: My problem is that I don’t know who I am. I mean I know I’m a 24 year-old NJ woman and I know that I work in a retail business, but I don’t really know who I am. I think because of this I have trouble making decisions for myself and am …
Dear Dr. Norquist: I’ve been re-thinking my career, and not knowing what to do. I’m good at what I do and I keep getting offers that entice me to stay. I know that if I leave this field and start anew, I may not immediately earn enough to support myself. With this in mind, I’ve …
Dear Dr. Norquist: My whole life I’ve been doing what I think I’m supposed to do. I went to college, taught in a high school, married and had two children. I do my best to raise my kids, maintain my marriage and be a good teacher. I can’t help wondering though if there isn’t something …
Dear Dr. Norquist: I never thought, at age 35, that I would be so unhappy with my life. I have been in the same job for the past seven years. It pays well but is torturous. Seems like I can never do enough, no matter how much time I put in. I work overtime regularly …
(Dr. Norquist is on vacation this week. We are re-running a letter published earlier in this column.) Dear Dr. Norquist: I am writing to you, Dr. Norquist, because no one else has been able to fix what’s wrong with my life. My parents abandoned me through their addictions. My husband left me (luckily we didn’t …
(Dr. Norquist is on vacation this week. We are re-running a letter published earlier in this column.) Dear Dr. Norquist: I had a difficult childhood. As a child, my mother would never be satisfied with the way I did anything. She would always focus on any flaws she could find, and then tell me I …
(Dr. Norquist is on vacation for the Labor Day weekend holiday. We are re-running a letter published earlier in this column.) Dear Dr. Norquist: It seems like I’m always stressed out, I make lists everyday of what has to be done because there is so much going on, with my work, my home, and my …
Dear Dr. Norquist: I never thought, at age 35, that I would be so unhappy with my life. I have been in the same job for the past seven years. It pays well but is torturous. Seems like I can never do enough, no matter how much time I put in. I work overtime regularly …
Dear Dr. Norquist: I’ve always been an anxious person but lately it’s getting worse. I worry that bad things could happen to my children and grandchildren. I worry my daughter could lose her job in this economy and then they couldn’t pay the mortgage. I worry about my grandchildren that they could take a wrong …