In the meantime do you know of any things I can be doing to stay calmer and get some sleep?

Ok will do thank you so much your help

Yes that makes sense how my anxiety is triggering all these impossible scenarios. You are correct- I am not at school right now and have not been seeing a counselor. I will when I return but that is the end of August. I have health insurance but am unsure if it covers mental health. I need to look i...

I think the reason this gymnastics started is because I noticed a tampon wrapper in the trash and it’s escalated since

Yes I am seeing a counselor at school and it seemed to be helping but alas no more and now I don’t know what to do

Thank you for your advice regarding the friends. I am really trying hard with the anxiety but it’s a struggle. I am at dinner with my family and had to excuse myself to the bathroom now because my hands were getting shaky and I didn’t have an appetite. More bad thoughts keep running through my head....

Thank you so much for your help. I’m a mess right now and I appreciate your support. The 24hr idea sounds like it would be helpful. It could prove to be difficult but I will give it a shot. I have tried a lot of different things to help with the loneliness. I joined the running team at my school. I ...

Sorry that was for trying to deal with anxiety. For the loneliness it’s been hard. I have had a hard time making any close friends in college and my girfriend has been busy and not a lot of time for me to discuss these things with her. And when I have, it’s been understandingly overwhelming for her ...

Yes I run everyday and try to listen to music and take walks, but I still feel incredibly controlled by the anxiety. I keep rereading the email from the ob-gyn too but that offers no help. I just want to be free from this and find some happiness

I read the last article you provided and I think this excerpt sums things up for me: “If things like in the lists above are true for you, being pregnant right now isn't real. That's not what's happening here. But the feelings of fear you're having are real. They are real feelings. They're just not f...

Thank you for providing these articles I’ll give them a read

Thanks for your response. I know that these things cannot cause pregnancy. I have had these and other similar fears regarding masturbation and accidentally leaving semen behind. I emailed a local ob-gyn who literarily told me: “don’t be scared or worried about any pregnancy related consequences from...

I know this scenario may not seem plausible for a pregnancy risk-I am just really struggling with anxiety over it all. I am a student and have been seeing a counselor at school, but despite the fact that I am pretty sure this won’t cause pregnancy, I still am consumed with anxiety. I am on a family ...

Thank you for this helpful response! My other question regards disposing of condoms. I go the the bathroom to take it off and then throw it in trash but I am nervous that I could contaminate the door knob, toilet, etc if my fingers have a bit of semen on it and then my gf uses the bathroom right aft...

Hi I am just wondering what speicifically it means to use a condom perfectly? I think I’m using it right. I put it on before general contact, pinching the tip and rolling it down. Then, I hold the bottom and pull out before I actually ejaculate, and put a new one on if we continue. and my gf also ta...

Hi there, My girlfriend is on a combination birth control pill. We had sex on a Saturday and I used a condom the whole time and it stayed on and did not break. She forgot to take her pill Friday night and instead took it Saturday morning when she woke up- this was her third to last active pill. Is t...

Hi there, I was having sex with my girlfriend and was using a condom and she’s been very good about her birth control pill. During it all, at one point my penis slipped out and I noticed there was a little bit of white fluid gathered in the tip. I did not orgasm/ejaculate, and my penis stayed erect,...

Hi Heather,

Thanks for your reply. That sounds like a good game plan for now I really appreciate it

This latest anxiety just happened and I have not had time to see the counselor yet. We haven’t discussed coping strategies a lot but rather looking at what can actually cause a pregnancy to prevent the anxieties from arising.

I have seen a counselor and I thought I had been making progress, as I had been able to enjoy these safe practices without anxiety, but now it’s creeping back in and making me miserable

Hi there, I am a 19 year old male and I’m confused why I am having anxieties over scares that I know cannot logically cause a pregnancy. For example, last week I was fingering my girlfriend when I had pants and underwear on and I keep making up this situation in my head that my fly was Down and my p...

Sorry, but one more question. Is it normal for me to have this anxiety? I feel like my male peers don’t have this problem and it makes me feel a bit embarrassed

Thank you so much for the quick response and helpful article. I honestly don’t know a whole lot about the types of counseling the school offers, but once I’m back on campus I will surely check it out because my fears have been rather intense and I really want it to stop. Thanks again

Hi there, I am having a lot of anxiety over situations where I know pregnancy cannot happen but I still get super scared. For example, one time I got extremely anxious about master bating in a bathroom and worried what if trace amounts of semen left on a door handle could get a girl who comes in bat...