Also, people often have fears about pimples/emotions/whatever. Unlike oral BC, which has to make it into your stomach, absorb into your bloodstream, and circulate through your whole body before doing what it’s supposed to in your uterus, the Mirena is right on-site, so the hormones are much less.

All IUD experiences are different, so YMMV, but I remember when I was looking for information all that stuck out were these horror stories from folks who had gone in for an IUD and screamed, passed out, bled, had the worst pain ever in their entire lives in lots of graphic detail and it was terrifying.

Yep, it’s accurate :)

Does anyone know how “resilience” relates to the idea of “grit” that I keep hearing from some urban ed folks? Is it the same thing by a different name? I’m about to google, but if someone is familiar with all of the jargon, I’d love any wisdom you have to share.

One thing that my partner and I (and in a separate way, my father and I) are working on is the drive to fix things for someone else. I experience it, my partner and father experience it. Unfortunately, my depression is severe, especially in the winter months, and it becomes a clusterfuck.

too real >____>

<3 <3 <3

That glove snapping. Do it enough and the pavlovian response you get from just the snapping is soooo worth it.

Haha $20 is kind of nuts, (not to mention $600) but I think that the giving of money [can] serve a certain function, and it’s not as though the teeth have some sort of market value—I don’t know what the going rate for my classmate’s teeth was, but I know that for my parents, the money-for-teeth thing was a way for…

g2g leaving this planet. how do patronizing pieces of shit like this get to hold a job where they make such crucial decisions in people’s lives?

Okay, I’m aware that Planned Parenthood, NOW, etc are big deals, especially to Jezebel readers. I get that the sentence that mentions them as “heavy hitters” isn’t trying to be comprehensive, but rather give you a little teaser of who is involved. I do wish that we could give props to the MANY organizations that specif…

I AM DEAD.

wtf that’s not how it works :( it is accepted that you don’t have to have cysts to have PCOS, as it is a suite of symptoms due to a fucked-up endocrine system. I don’t have cysts on my ovaries and am not an “apple shape” buuuuut 1) hairy 2) insulin resistance 3) stupid periods when not on mirena

I was just about to comment this same thing! Good to know I’m not crazy.

too soon ;_;

I CACKLED out loud

I just have 100% empathy for this person with the wedding. Like, if you trust someone and have been dating them for a year and a half, it is WAY easier to believe that dude is doing some weird promotional thing for his school than to believe that someone lied to you to your face every day for months, got married…

This happened to a friend of mine! There was no wedding, so it was smaller scale, but she dated a dude for MONTHS, they talked all the time, they’d go on road trips together, etc. Like I was there, I met him! There was always the specter of this ex-girlfriend/roommate that he had but there was definitely “NOTHING”…

and other people’s band-aids >_>

I’m crying. I basically grew up at the city pool and this describes it perfectly down to “the green stuff”