Ugh, double post.

Really? I wonder what the connection/causality is with true-crime obsession and depression. If I were going to put my Ph.D in Being a Pretend Psychologist to work, I'd guess that there's maybe an appeal for depressed people in reading/watching tv shows about people who live so far outside social/legal norms? Maybe?

Prediction: 98% of the profiles on this app will be dudes posting as their girlfriend hitting on other dudes who are posting as their girlfriends.

Me, too! I had a weakness for true crime and criminal profiling junk-reading that in retrospect, coincided with a pretty significant depression in my college years. Now that I'm older, diagnosed and medicated, it's less lurid and more sad to read these things (though obviously, I still do!)

As is yours, my dear.

OP obviously raised him- or herself on a diet of only bootstraps and self-help books and is both a Man of Steel and a God of Enlightenment (behind a keyboard).

Congratulations, I guess, on being able to achieve serenity about horrific child abuse that didn't happen to you?...

I hear you. I have scars from my navel to my pubic bone from having the little resplendent.bastards, and my solution has been to wear a pair of shorts over my bikini bottoms.

I... don't know how to feel about this. On one hand , my favorite pair of shorts is high-waisted, and super flattering. On the other hand, I haven't seen a high-waisted swimsuit yet that doesn't look like Grandma's underwear.... I'mma need more convincing, I think....

Would that we could all live out our days without that knowledge!

This is why gays and gay marriage are such a threat - they're going to crash the whole sex economy! No more marriage! Dudes will be blowing each other! Ladies will be jumping out of windows like it's 1929! Everybody panic!!!!ELEvEN!

No day-ruining here, I was well aware of the PUA variety of douche-weasel who calculates his romantic gestures in cost-to-blowjob analysis.

Ooh, I hope there will be a follow-up parenting guide - something along the lines of Fuck Everybody Else's Children: How to Get the Best for Your Special Snowflake, Regardless of the Cost to Society.

What's so weird about these "give the milk away for free" types is that they never consider the other side of the equation.

As a diagnosed and medicated bipolar 1, my mood swings are less severe, but they still happen.

I don't know, you guys. This bear seems about as erotic and edgy as the sex in those books. I'd say it works.

Jesus Christ, that is a fucking horror story. If I had a time machine, I would totally go back and hug your mom. I hate that she had to go through that.

This. The little resplendent.bastards think this movie is ridiculous and refuse to believe that it was ever as pants-shittingly terrifying as it, in fact, was when I was their age.

Local florists can be complete fuck-ups too. A small, local florist three blocks from my office not only fucked up my wedding bouquet, but birthday flowers for two friends of mine.