This is incredibly touching and so genuine. He seems like a very thoughtful and introspective person. It's amazing how gender roles prevent most men from ever having such an epiphany and women like me from even considering that it's a necessary epiphany to have in order to make progress. We truly can't see our own…

Oh god, I do that exact same thing.

Ah, yes. Paragraph 1 is basically my life! And the worse things get, the grander and more unattainable the promises are.

Not that I know of! So far it looks like an Oriental Beetle to me (I think)

Oh, this is very uplifting! I've been extremely pessimistic about relationships and the risks/complications involved, and sometimes stories like yours are just nice to hear!

Yeah it's complicated. Mostly because individually, all of the symptoms are things that lots of people experience, but they have to collectively be significant and problematic in a variety of ways. And not everyone who qualifies for a diagnosis finds medication to be necessary or effective. But I take a little…

Ooh, good idea. I've been attempting with a reverse Google image search

Something that SOMETIMES helps (other than my Adderall, which can be a fucking godsend in making me self aware enough to be like, "oh, maybe I should brush my teeth") is taking a minute to stop and think about how I felt last time I fucked around so much, or last time I actually accomplished something early in the…

I was awful about this when job-hunting, myself. I thank the Powers That Be Or Maybe Just Luck that I was referred to a great job right when I needed it.

GAH, HELP!! MYSTERY BUG!

Does anyone ever find that they have a tendency to self-sabotage? I have a bad habit of laying around on the internet all day and getting nothing done, knowing that I'm going to be very angry with myself later, and yet I can't seem to drag myself out of bed for anything other than snacks when it's a weekend and I…

Not for RAINN, but for a local crisis intervention center/24 hour hotline. One of the best things I've ever done!!

Damn, Uma! Lookin foxy. I want to copy her hair and makeup combo. The arm candy isn't bad, either...

OMG. I am eternally jealous and I am so glad to hear she is just as radient as she seems!

Oof. That's rough. But the shame, I understand. I have found that therapy has been a bit helpful in addressing these things out loud, which helps make sense of it and makes me get less likely to get depressed, but this came only after I let the therapist know that there's a lot in my mind that I avoid telling her, so…

Yes, exactly. I have a bit of body image/ sexuality related shame that started when I was in my early adolescence and is still going strong - nothing toooo out of the ordinary happened, just a handful of really poorly timed embarrassing moments/disappointments/minor breaches of trust that made me, in general, really…

Well, hello! I would just like to say that I just watched Mary Poppins (again) the other day, and that Julie Andrews is a national treasure. She seems to always play characters that are loved by everyone, and it just comes so damn naturally. I would like to be her friend.

I LOOOOVED Girl Scouts!! Camp, make shit (anything...just make things), learn survival skills, and make the girls responsible for organizing things and carrying out their plan, even if they mess it up a little in the process. They'll love the feeling of control and having adults trust them to make decisions and create…

Girl, I understand. I can't say I have the exact same experience, but I didn't have sex until I was 23, and the only time I'd kissed anyone up until then was thanks to a lot of alcohol and college situations that lent themselves to making out with strangers. It never felt very good, though. Never like it really…

I LOVE SHAKIRA