Arlinda Lindsay
MSW, M.Div, LCSW, LCAC
Clinical Social Worker/Therapist
Indianapolis, USA
Answers questions in Anger Management · Anxiety · Christian Recovery
What I do
It is my desire to empower you with life skills that will help you improve your functioning and quality of life. I have been instrumental in leading individuals from being a victim to surviving to thriving! As well as change old negative thought patterns to more positive reality based beliefs. I like to encourage individuals to believe in themselves and to know their worth to God and others.
Why life is worth living
Life is worth living because God created us with a purpose for our lives. So, it's important to live life to the fullest and seek our passion and purpose in life.
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Answered Questions(8)
Is it OCD?
I think I have OCD and I would like to know if I need medication and what kind of doctor I should go to? I have this problem for a long time that I cannot leave the house very easily because I very worried that I left the iron or the curling iron on or the stove on. So no problem I just stopped using all of these things and only cooked in the microwave. Now things are worse. I am afraid that anything electrical is going to catch on fire so I have to go and unplug everything in the house before I leave because I imagine that it is going to start sparking at the outlet and start a fire. I have cats so I worry about them getting trapped in a house fire a lot. But then after I check everything I have to go around and check it all over again. It can take me an hour or more to leave the house and even then it very difficult to force myself out the door. Sometimes I just stay home because it is easier to stay here and monitor everything. I know this is completely crazy.
Read answer →Get Help
My life is a failure and all I want to do is escape from the world. I can’t be in the world and stay off meth. I am too weak and now I am have lost my job and I am 60 days away from homelessness and there is no one left I can turn to. I just want to live a simple life forever like a monk of the old days. I am ready to walk away from everything because my whole life and everything around my disgusts me. It is dripping in sin and based on the false worship of everything that is worldly to temp me away from God. I will spend the rest of my days in prayer and simple work if there is anyplace that will accept me. Where can I turn to?
Read answer →Clean & Sober
My 24 yr old son is a drug addict as is his live-in girlfriend of 7 yrs. Both are ready to detox and enter a rehab program. The difficulty is finding an affordable Christian rehab that doesn't require a commitment of 12+ months and a structered sober living environment for the two of them together after rehab. They are only willing at this time to commit to 4...possibly 6...month rehab program and realize they will not be together. My son also has a dual diagnosis that requires psychiatric medication and the only shorter term low cost Christian rehab that I have found...U Turn for Christ...will not allow psychiatric medications. And, I have yet to find ANY low cost program that will address both of them together. My son has insurance through the state of AZ, but his girlfriend has none. We are able to pay for a low cost, under $1000 per month, rehab and are willing to send him out of state. Thank you for any help you can offer as I have been searching for a few weeks.
Read answer →Drinking during Biblical Times
What does the bible say about alcoholism? Where there alcoholics in the time of Jesus?
Read answer →Victory is Yours!
The devil that makes me thirsty for liquor and desiring drugs won’t leave me in peace. I pray that I am full of the Lord but I still feel devils temptations. I have let the devil in my soul with my weakness and sin and all of the evil I have done and now he wont leave me in peace.
Read answer →It's Never too late
Hi this is my story. I was a dealer with my own soldiers cranking thousands of dollars of product a day but I had an eye opening life altering experience when I got shot and robbed and almost died in the ER with blood pressure crashed out to practically zero… I got straight in the hospital and I moved back home with my mom to get away because I know if I was back on the streets there for even one day I’d be high by night time… I am serious about changing my life but my mom still treat me like I am a 16 year old child and she extends me zero trust that you should just normally give an adult man…as a case in point I have to be home by 9 at night… I an greatful to her for taking me in and being here for me but I cant stand the way she treats me…. If I stay I am going to explode and get high but I don’t have any where to go except back where I came from where I will also get high…. I have a high school diploma and that is all!!!... I used to drop $500 at the stripclub and not even care…. I am 28 now and I have an 8 year hole on my resume and what kind of job am I going to get?... I feel like this mountain I gotta climb is just too high and I cannot do it.….It has been 72 days since the day I almost died. I feel like there is no way back from the bad choices I made 10 years ago.
Read answer →Infertility and Depression in men
Does psychological health (depression) affect a man’s ability to get a woman pregnant?
Read answer →Postpartum Depression and Work
My wife has postpartum depression. Our daughter is 1 month old. My wife had arranged for a 1 year maternity leave but she is now talking about going back after 4 months. She feels like she needs to get back to work for her mental health. I am worried that our daughter will be harmed irreversibly unless my wife can work through this and bond with her without running away. Can you comment?
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