If it helps you with your inner conflict, you can forget about any social justice in the Catholic church. Through their charity works, they actively discourage condom use (very successfully) among those highly susceptible to HIV (with no chance of meds once they get it, naturally) and very economically disadvantaged…

Or the willful and stubborn contribution to the spread of HIV, the most deadly plague in world history, via discouraging condom use (stating it actually increases infection) among those most susceptible people in the world? I guess it's easier to be in denial about these far more barbaric practices when they don't…

Ugh, and I fucking hope that mom was not (but I'm sure she was...) including the part of the master cleanse where you drink a fuckton of uniodized salt water every morning, and you poop like crazy because your body is trying to expel the liter of POISON you just drank. Oh, and also the crucial laxative tea at night…

My first thought is that juicing for kids sounds like a good idea only because you can pack it full of greens and other things that kids often don't find tasty, and because most kids drink juice anyway, but usually store bought orange juice and the like (or worse, Capri Sun.) But for that purpose, a smoothie is…

Oh and a question about DBT: Are you attending group sessions in addition to those with your therapist? I gather this is an essential part? I tentatively took a "break" with my great psychologist a few months ago, but I think I'm just holding shit together and need to go back. I would really like to be very forward…

Thank you!

Outright discrimination against feminine men is something most gay men see every day. A solid chunk of profiles on all those interchangeable "dating" apps specify "masc only" "no fems" (Alongside, but way more common and less overtly discriminatory than the no asians/latinos etc.) But it's just an attraction and is…

Maybe a bit subject to touch on, but is there anything particularly that helped you with BPD in any way? I've strongly suspected that this is what I've always experienced, but the therapists I've seen either disregard my belief that it's BPD because I'm not a total fucking basket case (essentially they're comparing me…

This sounds pretty superfluous. If you can be bothered to attend a Conscious Uncoupling class - or even have a dedicated conversation about employing this method - with your mid-breakup ex-SO, then you probably are 95% there already. You're having rational conversations about the best way to break up, and you both…

"William" and "Her Majesty The Queen" are also giving killer mouth impressions here. I mean, though we've never seen it and it can't be said to have ever occurred, that is definitely what the Queen's awkward selfie face looks like.

Thank you! I really appreciate your comment and will probably be giving it a reread. Even if I don't see myself in all of your first friends behavior, it's still shades of the same thing, and I can relate a bit more if I imagine past relationships (where there were actually other factors for legitimate suspicion that…

You are a marvel of level-headedness. I just can't with this brand of fucking idiots who denies the existence of a whole pattern of human behavior because they take issue the nomenclature used to describe it.

Oh dear sister, I must advise you to back away. Someone who has such a completely uninformed understanding of racialization is not worth your energy. They are too far gone. And it's hurting my head.

Since this installment is all about friend boundaries, shaming and mental health, and the commentariat is so on-form, I want to pose a query:

I have some abandonment issues that make it tough to relate with my friends at times. I fear loneliness and lack of meaningful connections. Fearfulness can become defensive or…

Seconded from another person with some mental health issues that make it difficult to relate to people in manifold ways: talk to them. These basic truthful conversations with people close to you can be some of the most rewarding you'll have. When someone like your feelings is making it difficult to relate to people,…

Seems likely that she got talked into believing what she states above, but that she has come to believe it. And I can sort of see that, I don't dig Kim and Kanye (either, or) and I don't think that they are "shaking things up" or changing the way I look at anything, but they sort of are just there, and they're STILL…

You didn't even to reply to me but I think you should embrace personal nudie time! You don't even know how stressful pants are until you work more pantsless time into your routine.

I don't mean to talk about objective tastes like your lack of enthusiasm for Rose Leslie, who I do trust you would still admit is a beautiful woman. You don't need to ask men about hotness to talk about beautiful women.

The actresses (no doubt the characters have zero sex appeal) who play Brienne and Osha are both…

Always disappointing that the women have to be hot in all circumstances. Even on Game of Thrones, their lauded for putting an unconventional character like Brienne on TV (when she's in the books so it's not really so revolutionary..) even though the actress is a total stunner. Nearly every other woman on that show is…

Yeah, no. People who are attracted to men want to see dick. Attraction to genitals is not a phenomenon for straight men only.