You don't have to have ever had an anxiety attack to be anxious. A small dose of a benzo like Lorazapam [sp?] takes the edge of my work-induced anxiety and helps me go to sleep. You can't do it every night because you can become habituated, your tolerance goes up, you can become dependent or addicted yada yada yada,…

I'm sure you can find plenty of pamphleteering material at Kotaku.

Direct method—text him: "Hi! Ball's in your court!"

Well if you told him that "I'm ALWAYS at this specific coffee shop at this specific time" he may show tomorrow. Or the day after. Or the day after that ... Amirite?

Dude, you can't roll a joint on an mp3, man . . .

I'm a brutal-ass cynic, but the sight of all those locks, in Paris, on the bridges crossing the Seine, just melts my heart. OTOH yeah, if stuff starts falling down it's a bad thing ...

I would get off this FB feed. This is BS that you don't need to read. It's worse than a waste of time, it's a day-f**ker.

It sounds like you've talked yourself into going ahead with the wedding even if he shows up. It also sounds like this wedding has become more about other people at this point. I'm so sorry you've gotten yourself dragged in so far that you can't say "no" to having someone there who could potentially ruin it for you. …

"She will be unable to cope if i ban her son." It appears that your mom really thinks the wedding is about her and not about you.

While I disagree strongly with what you did, there are far worse things in this world done to kids on a daily basis. Good luck in raising your son, and I hope he grows up to be a wonderful adult.

So your son steals from you, and so you steal from him in return. Makes perfect sense ... And no, he's probably not going to thank you for "raising him right" because you did that. My parents did stuff like that to me, and I still think they were assholes for doing so.

Interesting that she's even done her hair to look like Kate Gosselin. Maybe trying to audition for her own reality-TV series featuring her and the hilarious shenanigans of her teenagers, with increasingly ridiculous public humiliations?

Holy s**t what a creep, regardless of skin color. And what is hanging over his shoulders, a couple of his soiled diapers?

You say you are having your attacks on "at least" a weekly basis. If they are in fact episodic and not constant you might try a benzo like Xanax or Ativan just to take down the anxiety for the short term. The problem with those is that they build both a tolerance and a habit pretty quickly if used daily. I can't…

I'm sorry to be blunt, but: 6-10 drinks every night IS a problem. Where you go with that is up to you. AA, an inpatient medical treatment program, quitting by yourself, whatever. But you're probably not going to be able to keep up that pace in the long run without your life getting worse.

Consider taking the meds just for a limited period of time. Being able to break out of the cycle of anxiety and despair may be enough to help you develop the skills to be able to deal with them and the belief that you can overcome them. However, you should probably do it under the care of a psychiatrist, who will…

If your acne is really bothering you, Accutane is the "nuclear option" that has helped many people get rid of it. It has a list of side effects as long as your arm, but I had chronic cystic acne for many years which went away permanently after two (miserable, painful) treatments.

I don't know how flip you can get away with being but: a long while ago, my then-sister-in-law took umbrage at the fact that we did not seem to be showing enough appreciation at her achievement of graduating from nursing school. I immediately took it upon myself to profusely, fulsomely congratulate her every time we…

So today you wrote almost 4000 pages of great porn. Who knows what kind of inspired writing tomorrow or next week will bring? Just keep writing. It sounds like your stories take themselves where they want to go, so if more porn comes in so be it. However, after some awesome f**king your characters and the plot may…

I took a number of SSRIs and similar drugs for many years, and some were more helpful than others. Between me and a number of other people trading experiences, I've learned that efficacy, side effects, and general experiences are highly variable. Zoloft made me sleepy all the time; it made a friend so wired she…