Congrats! Wishing you good health!

lol thanks!!

Thanks for the kind words. And go you!

Kiss My Face Face Factor in SPF 30. It's a mineral sunscreen that magically doesn't leave a white film on the skin. It also goes on well under makeup.

I'm slowly but surely starting to kick my agoraphobia's ass and it feels fucking amazing. A few weeks ago I walked four blocks to the grocery store, shopped, and walked home, all without freaking out. Now I can take the bus for about five minutes and go out to lunch by myself, and I grocery shop a few times a week. …

That is better than good, that is fucking awesome! *internet stranger hugs*

I'm on medication (Bipolar w PTSD, wuhoo!) and my shrink is working on finding something that deals better with my anxiety. I don't want to be on a take-as-needed medication because I abused the hell out of Ativan and don't trust myself not to do it again.

I want to push myself, but I'm worried that if I, for example, walk to the grocery store and it's even worse than I expect that it'll set me back, ya know?

Anyone have stories about overcoming agoraphobia? I'm doing well with the exercises my therapist has given me, but I'm not feeling terribly optimistic. I'm also scared to Google stories about agoraphobia because I'm worried it'll be people talking about how they learned to live with it rather than stories about…

I've seen quotes from it, and it triggered the hell out of me. I wish people wouldn't spend money on the books/movie, because it really does depict an abusive relationship as something romantic. I get people wanting to laugh at it, but I'm hoping people will wait for it to be on Netflix or something.

I gained 80lbs in three years. I started looking at blogs/pictures of fat women as inspiration to lose weight (because I was an asshole) and that led me to the Body Positive community. Do you think BP is something that would appeal to you? It helped me because I saw beauty in bodies that looked like mine, so I…

Anyone else doing #bodposfeb?

Anyone else have a cat who is afraid of boxes? I've given a few to my cat and she does that I-want-to-sniff-you-but-I'm-scared thing, and then gives them a wide birth and gets slightly distressed.

Google is your new best friend. Search for [name of foundation]+swatch. Beauty bloggers have loads of pictures of drugstore foundations, and they'll show you what it looks like right out of the bottle but also blended out. DO a few searches for each brand you're looking up, so that you can find swatches on…

I know the feeling of "Wow, fantastic, something else is wrong with my brain." I have bipolar, PTSD, and agoraphobia. It's good that your situation seems more like a new diagnosis makes sense to you and helps explain things, than that it's freaking you completely out. Sending you the atheist equivalent of good…

This starts like a bad story, but I promise it's awesome.

Hey, it's Mark! I spend entirely too much time on his blogs.

Is the commentary any good?

What about the environmental effect? Do parabens get into the water system and affect animals, etc.?

Americans!