I swear no one prior to the late 19th or early 20th century was able to draw cats in an accurate, non creepy way. The pigeon looks like a normal pigeon. The cat looks like Mickey Rourke.

Yeah, but he only joins in after the Second Coming.

I know plenty of women who have had homebirths who vaccinate their children on schedule.

"… there is no evidence of excessive growth in how much public colleges are spending. The $11,000 per student in 2012, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers, was almost exactly the same, when inflation is taken into account, as they spent a generation ago."

This is a total lie. The growth in…

I'm amazed this is the first time this has happened.

Tinder, is that you?

Hey now, don't bash 'em until you tried 'em.

Those studies included people with lower levels of depression. People with serious clinical depression ARE helped by the drugs. I'm one of them, and neither you nor Tom Cruise will take them away from me.

Ok, this is lame, but I have been extra depressed and having severe panic attacks for the past couple of days, so I would like to request supportive words and/or pictures of cats.

I think our culture blames lonely people for their loneliness. It certainly blames single people for being single or the jobless for being jobless. There is always the underlying idea that *you* must have done *something* wrong, because everyone knows that all normal people are not lonely or single or jobless. It's…

Thank you! Hope you can pull through your relapse soon!

I think we've all been there, and it's a really shitty phase to be in. I say "phase" because, almost always, things kick into higher gear on the work or relationship front (often both!) eventually, but the powerlessness of feeling like you can do nothing but wait for it to happen is highly dispiriting.

Mind if I ask what you want to teach? (I've taught secondary in a few different cities, and I've found that schools are always desperate for qualified hard-working folks to come into the classroom. If that hasn't been your experience—and especially added on to your current frustration with your romantic life—moving…

Went up to the full strength of my antidepressant (Viibryd) yesterday. Last night I got, though not a full night's sleep, but the best night's sleep in months. I woke up OPTIMISTIC! I don't remember the last time I woke up optimistic.

I have no advice unfortunately, only commiseration. I often feel like my life is...stagnate, and that I should be farther along than I am right now. For me it is often my anxiety/fear that keeps me from going after things or making a change, could it be the same for you?

I feel stuck and hopeless. I moved into teaching three years ago, because it was what I'd always wanted to do, but I feel no closer to a full time position today than I did the day I started. I want to find a partner, but as I've mentioned on here recently the most promising guy I've met in a LONG time wasn't in the…

so it's my understanding that places like DC and San Fran are populated mainly by people who have FWBs with whom they're quite close, but not officially coupled off with, thus not being in the old "it's complicated" status bar? ::raises hand::

Some of us have really bitchy breasts. Be nice.

Nonplussed= surprised and confused and don;t know how to react. Is this what you meant? Or are you using non-plussed to mean "unaffected"?