Column Chronicles
 
Ask Dr. Shrink once more
 
 
Frank Cotolo
August 14, 2020
 
His name is still Wendell Pencilmark and he claims to be one of the best psychiatrists in the field today - and some think tomorrow. Wendell is known to as Dr. Shrink. He has agreed to continue with one of our most popular features, documenting his answers to questions people have sent him about problems. Thus, we continue to feature these Qs and As intermittently.
 
Q: Everyone loves how I sing except my wife. This makes me feel as if I am with the wrong woman. Why do I feel that way?
 
A: You obviously needed encouragement for your mother as a child but were not born and could not get any if your mother was a child.
 
Q: Girls flirt so much to attract boys but I refuse to flirt to attract boys. Why do I do that?
 
A: You obviously needed encouragement from your father but he did not give you any because he was afraid of being accused of molesting you.
 
Q: I do not want to get into therapy?
 
A: All right, goodbye.
 
Q: I hate my grandfather because he gave my grandmother beatings. I cannot visit him even now that he is only twenty pounds and on death's door. What happens when he dies?
 
A: There will either be a funeral or some kind of ceremony when he is cremated.
 
Q: I do to my son what my father did to me and what his father did to him and what his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and his father did to him and...
 
A: Stop right there. I am sensing a pattern.
 
Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.
Copyright © 2009-2020 SRN Mediaworks Productions, in association with Frank Cotolo.
All rights reserved. We are not responsible for the content of external links.
148.ca | Cafe | Fab | Radio | Local