Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexandra Stratyner, Ph.D., is a New York City-based licensed psychologist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy, ...

Plain Dealer and cleveland.com columnist Lucas Daprile answers a reader's question about a friend who goes to therapy and comes back even more toxic than before.

Sometimes you just have to walk away from the negativity.

My whole life, I’ve tried to fit into big social groups. It seemed so fun to have many friends and do many cool things together. But every time I was part of such a crowd, something felt off. I couldn ...

You can usually count good friends on only one hand. But what would you do if a good friend of yours kept blaming everyone but themselves for their own problems? In today’s story, a woman shares about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dear Annie: My best friend, “Claire,” has been dating her boyfriend, “Jay,” for three years. I really liked him when they first ...

We all know the importance of fostering close social connections. Friends are great—until they’re not. Psychologists say they hear often about so-called toxic friendships, which veer away from the ...

Dear Eric: I recently set boundaries with a friend who would vent to me about another friend of theirs, with whom I’m only barely acquainted. I asked them to stop processing this other friendship of ...

Dear Eric: I just read the question about the person who always has something negative to say about what is going badly in her life (“Not Your Therapist”). That was me four decades ago when a toxic ...

Dear Annie: My best friend, “Claire,” has been dating her boyfriend, “Jay,” for three years. I really liked him when they first started dating, but lately, she’s been confiding in me about some things ...