The only one here who sounds brainwashed is pretty much you. Keep sucking big-alterna (which is also a billion dollar industry just like pharma) dick.

I, on the other hand, love my HBC. I love it. Love love LOVE. It allows me to live a normal life, one that doesn't include bleeding out all of my dietary iron all month long. I eat it like popcorn. Nomnomnom. Unnatural? Okay. If endometriosis is natural, then fuck that. Bring on the chemicals.

Do not trust your doctor,

I don't like the side effects of birth control at all.

And then there are women like me, who actually need to have their hormones adjusted. Otherwise, I bleed too much and become dangerously anemic. It's not fun.

So the rhythm method. Enjoy your eventual unintended pregnancy.

Yes, I'm actually fully aware of the risk and I take Nuvaring anyway, because it's the only hormonal BC I've tried that doesn't make me feel nauseated 24/7. The potential downside sucks, but I actually really love my nuvaring, and I hope they can find some way to decrease the blood clot risk that doesn't involved…

I love mine too :(. Pills made me barfy and slowed down my digestive system to a dead halt at certain times of the month. I tried to get an IUD last year and my cervix is too dainty. Nuvaring was it for me. Dammit.

I know. Me and my facts-based reality ruin everything!

But I love my NuvaRing! Don't take it away!
(Obviously determining medical safety is so much more complicated that my personal feelings)

You are my spirit animal.

I want to buy her a drink.

Can we go back in time and replace Underwood and Moyer with these two?

"Everyone who watched Bunheads," so... like a million people? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Bunheads (seriously, look through my post history), but those are exactly the kind of ratings they were trying to avoid. Sutton is incredible, but she just doesn't have the name recognition. Broadway folks might be the…

That reminds me of some things...

"Plain and simple: Mean people need Jesus,"

What if it wasn't intended sarcastically? I didn't read it that way at all — I took it to be sincere.

That's only true if we're talking about the DSM, which is used largely in the US. Scotland, where Susan Boyle lives, uses the ICD-10.

In the US. The DMSV is American. There are other diagnostic standards in the world.