That...that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me! *sob*

Hi Rapunzel,

About a decade ago I was in the US for three weeks and I was horrified by the vomit-tasting chocolate. I found this bar in a shop one day and got very excited:

I only know it through literature prior to 1900...

Hey, I work at Bedlam! We don't need his kind here.

Fremd-SHAME-en. It actually is, I lived in Germany for years and people used the word all the time :)

Don't forget Joseph Gordon Levitt!

Hi Foxglove Tea,

Not crazy at all. As you say, he's done something weird and stalkerish, saying "I can still reach you and influence you", while doing it in a way that can make him look sweet and caring as opposed to manipulating.

One of my flaws, I suppose, is that I seem to always want to salvage something when possible, like I can't stand it when I've had an acrimonious split in any type of relationship (romantic or otherwise) and that there is this person out there in the world, thinking badly of me. But I really need to cultivate my IDGAF…

Then your behaviours make sense. As I said, two people may have the same behaviours with different reasons - a woman may eat a pint of ice cream because she's an emotional binge eater, or because she's pregnant and has a food craving, or because there's no other food in the house for dinner. Only one of these reasons m…

Fun fact: Bethlem Hospital is now one of the best psychiatric hospitals in the world, about 800 years on from its foundation! It's always weird to me how they never changed the name though.

Equating non-healthy food with "poisonous things" is a red flag for me.

That would worry me. What you've described are behaviours, and there are many reasons why someone could engage in particular behaviours. Are you a perfectionist? Do you like yourself, are you generally self-compassionate? What do you do if you "fail" at any of those behaviours? How do these behaviours tie in with your…

YOU'RE STILL NOT GETTING IT.

Ba ba ba ba ba baa...

you don't know the way to write poetry

Never mind the whole Boston bombers poem.

I was thinking that I might find it less offensive than her poetry.

I loved the Dresden Dolls, and I was listening to Who Killed Amanda Palmer today. The fact that I like a lot of her music makes her execrable personality so much harder to bear.