Oh god, that is horrible. I'm so sorry. I don't know what I can do except wish you great luck and success, and support from great people.

Amur tigers and Amur leopards also live in the cold/snow (Siberia). Amur leopards only have about 30 left in the wild. Once I was at the zoo here in the winter (Minnesota) and it was pretty cold out (I say that as a Minnesotan). The polar bears were frolicking in the snow and water (the water must be heated or else it…

I'm just annoyed that he does it so often. It gets old.

Yeah, I thought of the Kota girl too. A few months ago I read about them for an entire night. So interesting.

I was in an outpatient therapy program a few years ago that had an art section. It was great.

It's definitely a known thing, but this just proves it all the more. My therapist and I talk about this a lot. I'm a machine creatively when I'm depressed. It's not the case that when I'm depressed I am creative, more like sometimes I'm compelled to do stuff because it makes my brain feel better and not focus on…

Lane Bryant is the worst for needing de-bedazzling lately (I love that term, thanks!). Suddenly they got an idea of those t-shirts that have all kinds of crap emblazoned on them accompanied with jewels and sequins and lace. I've actually been really disappointed in their selection for the past year or so, but I get my…

I hate it when people say suicide is selfish. HATE it. You've never been there, or you wouldn't say that.

I can't believe it, but a year ago or so one of my favorite pastimes was reading Yahoo comments. They actually used to give me pleasure. I remember it distinctly. It wasn't because I liked confrontation or argument, because I don't. There must have been something there that made me feel like I was a superior person, I…

I'm glad I went to a place that preferred the ACT. I got a 30 on the ACT but something like 1290 on the SAT (old system; I graduated HS in 2000). I was not happy with that SAT score but luckily they said at the time that Midwest schools prefer the ACT.

I honestly thought the same thing. "She's voting for Mitt Romney" made me go, "I don't know about that." Endorsing is a better word.

When you find The One, you'll know it, and for God's sake, do NOT fuck it up because it'll break your life in every way you can imagine and lots more that you can't, and you don't want that, do you? (But still go to therapy because your therapist is great)

Oh yeah, it's personal. I probably just associate it with Grey's Anatomy and 50 Shades of Grey, both of which I dislike. I can't remember having a preference before those things existed.

Those commercials still haunt me. I will hate Jennifer Hudson until my dying day because of them. Also, when she first lost the weight and went to I think the Oscars, it's the only thing ANYONE would talk about. It's also the only thing SHE would talk about.

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. From what I read on Regretsy, anyway, they don't really act on complaints and turn a blind eye on anything that's going awry.

Dorian *Gray*, thanks very much. It's not 50 shades of paint on a portrait of himself. (For some reason I have a huge aversion to the spelling "grey")

Yep. I got diabetes last year (which I did not give myself by eating bad food) and despite any changes I made in my lifestyle, I've been the exact same weight for a year. Before that, I dropped 50 pounds in a few months because my blood sugar was so high that I couldn't absorb any food into my body. So I mean, F…

Echoing everyone else's sentiments and adding that you should send your misogynistic, hateful world view back to 1950.

It's great to hear everyone is not a jerk. :) I think I just need to cool down about eHarmony a little. It just was really interesting that for a week in a row it was like HI I WORK OUT HI I WORK OUT HI I WORK OUT...

That's a good point, and I thank god if he exists that I have a great therapist. She's been trying to help me for 5 years to live with my body image issues, and then this comes along - it's a long road to go down. But yes, I (and you) have been through a lot. It's something I usually don't remember to remember when…