Why does everyone hate Ed Sheeran so much lol, he’s just some basic dude who plays guitar and makes catchy Top-40 friendly music. Is it because he’s not conventionally “hot” or because he is literally so white bread? How are either of those a bad thing? Has he done something racist that I missed?

Thank you for sharing this. I had a classmate growing up whose mother was a CO at Rikers...she came in every career day with soap sculptures the inmates had made and told us G/PG stories about what it was like working in a jail. I thought that it was full of people who did bad things and had to find ways to pass the…

This is all so gross and appalling, BUT, if you look at the call script in the original Guardian piece, their fundraising tactics aren’t *quite* as evil as they are being presented.

I’m so sorry about your Angus. Dogs are very much family. Sending you love.

I’m glad you’re still here and have (mostly) repaired your relationship with food. It’s never something that ever really goes away, but the fact that you are still fighting and living is something you should be proud of.

Yikes! Lesson noted. Yeah, 48 hours off and even then the dissociation was terrifying. Sometimes I forget that the meds change my brain but that was a nice reminder that my mind works a lot better when I am on them.

Yeah, I started on 10 for 2 weeks then went up to 15. I will say I found initially it really increased my appetite...i take it at night for that reason, though I think that makes my nightmares worse. My GP recommended I switch to taking it in the morning, but I’m hesitant to change my routine! I also had terrible…

Hi! I’ve been on a generic of lexapro for about 3.5 years now for GAD. Been a complete life-changer. It hasn’t cured my anxiety but has made it significantly more manageable, and has drastically improved my quality of life. I take 15 mg daily. The only side effects I have had are very strange, vivid dreams (often…

I’ll have to try differin again! I tried it as a teenager and it didn’t really work, but my acne has changed now. I feel you on the scars too—I’m fairly clear now thanks to me BCP, but it doesn’t look that way because of the hyper-pigmentation :(

I’m assuming based on her former Proactiv spokesperson status, she’s struggled a lot with acne, and that can make someone feel uncomfortable being barefaced, especially when so much of their job is to be on camera. Count your blessings that you don’t need makeup to feel beautiful. Signed, a person with persistent…

I’m embarrassed to be a lifelong New Yorker and a feminist and to have not known about this. So many lawmakers seem to not understand that a late-term abortion is not something done by negligent women who want to terminate pregnancies because they were too lazy to do it early, or too stupid to realize they were…

My mother loves the original movie so much that she would make me watch the final scene with her over and over with her as a kid, which gave me the eye-opening realization that my mom had the hots for someone other than dad, and that person was Patrick Swayze.

Sure! They’ve overall been pretty minimal. I had bad headaches when I first started, which went away within a week or so. The only lingering side effects are that I have really vivid, strange, and often frightening dreams, which is a less common side effect. I also have more difficulty reaching orgasm now, which is…

I never thought of it this way! For the longest time I thought being uptight and worried was just who I was. And I wasn’t wrong, but it was how I was (and how I am) because of a mental illness. It’s part of me, but unlike my other character traits, I don’t think it defines me.

No need to apologize! And no, I wasn’t diagnosed at the time, unless they told my parents something that they didn’t tell me. I actually barely remember the therapy at all...it was with a social work grad student who was probably around the age I am now, which is weird to think. This was about 2004, and my mom was…

It’s weird because my parents are super pro-mental health. I went to therapy at age 11 and at age 16 basically because my mom was tired of me throwing literal tantrums all the time and forced me to go, but I think I wasn’t ready to fully immerse myself in the experience and let myself get help. In college I was able…

Oh man, I feel the worry about a child thing. My mom has bad anxiety too and I don’t know how she was able to function when I was little, even with the medication she was on. When my parents don’t answer the phone I’m convinced they’re dead, I can’t imagine how much worse that worry would be with a child.

I would. I know some people get a Xanax rx just for flying because it makes them so anxious. I’ve never done this, because my anxiety is more ever-present than situational, but I definitely think it’s worth talking to a doctor.

That’s how I describe it too—most people’s anxious is my baseline, and my anxious is most people’s mental breakdown, lol. It’s always there, always on edge. When I started on Lexapro it gave me a glimpse of how normal people live, but I still feel anxious, just not as much. I mean, I haven’t talked to my boss all…

I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder when I was 20, and I swear when my therapist told me what it was and explained it to me, it was like my entire life came into a new light and suddenly made sense. Why I was so scared of dating as a teenager, why I was so angry and upset as a preteen, why as a child I…