Having worked at 911 centers for 18 years - the most important piece of advice for someone calling 911: “Answer the questions the dispatcher asks you in the order they are asked.”

Beyond all the online and telephone assistance for mental health problems, there are other affordable or free options out there. However, these options can vary widely based on where you live. I have two very specific examples of how to get help.

Your point is well taken, as my statement was a bit lazy.

While I think a lot of issues surrounding sex are psychological (because of a weird shame culture, not because bitches be cray), you make a good point that we are quick to link female sexual issues to neuroses. It’s great that we’ve come to realize that mental health is very important, but sometimes your body is just…

I think you’re right. As someone who has vaginismus, for me personally, I came to the conclusion that it’s somewhat both. Here’s why: The treatment basically involves retraining your muscles from over tensing. Whether that is happening because of your own physiology initially, it becomes something that is reinforced…

Or they could have gone the Clark Kent - Superman route and had him wear false eye glasses during official duties and no glasses out with friends. No one can see past that disguise.

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My wife is expecting our first, due tomorrow (!!!), and is sitting on the couch next to me as I write this. Things are happening “down there” and we’re sort of shocked that the baby might actually arrive on his due date. I like to think that us seeing Captain America: Civil War this afternoon might have gotten the…

I’m 9 weeks pregnant with my first (after an IUI and a year and a half of trying) and although it’s super early I’m already anxious about the whole “giving birth” part. These stories, some of which are a bit harrowing, have made me feel a bit calmer!

If it weren’t for Forza, maybe he would have learned not to drive so damned fast in the rain.

The police don’t have scuba equipment on-hand to stage a fucking night-time rescue at night in 15 feet of water in the dark with zero visibilty. It’s Florida, there’s alligators everywhere, and the headline of this story and the police demonization is mis-guided and ignorant.

why don’t you steal cars and run from police

Because no one has overcome a life of crime? Nah, fuck the idea that their lives were worthless. Even the shittiest person has some value and dignity asjust being a person.

They might have taken off their seatbelts to you know. Try and escape the car?

Deserve doesn't mean we care any less either. Like I said to the other guy, judging them because they were criminals is wrong especially because they were so young. We don't know what kind of life hey had to have made them go to a life of crime.

Of course you can't blame the officers. If they hadn't ran they wouldn't have went into the pond. But at the same time like I said, a lot of people on here seem to be fine with the fact that 3 kids just drowned. Mistake or not, bad behavior or not that's wrong.

I guess it’s only a matter of time before an actual one in a million case comes up...

This fails to account for how often survival instincts are stupid things that lead us towards making the wrong choice in a given scenario. ‘Stay in the shelter, it’s dangerous outside’ is a survival instinct. It just happened to the be the wrong one in this situation, but the guy couldn’t get past that until…

Yeah, I don’t understand that either. Is shooting hoops by yourself depressing? Is playing guitar without a band depressing? Is cooking a nice meal for yourself depressing? Nope, nuh-uh, and not at all.

Many hobbies are things people usually do alone(model building, reading, art). Boardgaming is lucky enough to have human interaction most of the time, but why is the fact you can still do the thing you love, even if you have no one else to play with at the time, depressing?