Also, I had forgotten our conversation about all of this from last year: http://www.scarleteen.com/forum/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/27/t/029589/p/1.html#000000 Clearly, this isn't a just-now, but an ongoing pattern, and since we also have already had a discussion about mental health there, no u...

We can't know that, because we are not using a way of working with users here, and lack the credentials, to evaluate someone for anxiety. Again, that is what mental healthcare providers do, just like -- and with the same motivations as -- how what endocrinologists can do that we can't is evaluate an...

Do you feel the same way about other kinds of healthcare and healthcare providers? Really, we're not going to be able to soundly talk to you about managing anxiety or getting help with that if you're of the mind that psychology and social science as fields are not trustworthy or sound. Because the w...

Okay, but those are things that give us a clue that there is likely a bigger anxiety picture here, because holding on to those kinds of concerns for more than a fleeting moment, if that, suggests an anxiety issue. In other words, being worried about those things for more than few seconds, and for as...

Can I ask if anxiety or compulsivity (since it sounds like that might be a possibility here) is something you experience or struggle with at all around anything else, or just this?

No worries.

Masturbation does not make people more or less intelligent: the idea it does is based on long-ago ignorance as well as religious ideology, not science, data, or reality. If you want to masturbate a couple times a day, and it feels emotionally and physically good for you, and doesn't get in the way o...

Talking about what your exclusivity agreement actually invokves does not have to mean disclosing about your fantasies, if that does not feel right, or you do not feel ready for that. You can ask about fantasy, and how you both feel about that if you want regardless. Personally, though, again, I woul...

Nope, the back (posterior) of the vagina is where tenting occurs.

(When we're talking to people who are talking about a certain gender with certain anatomy, as that user was -- we generally tend to try and use both inclusive language and language that reflects the way they are identifying their bodies and gender. If we don't go with some of someone's own framework...

LOL!

If people were using the default date, I believe we'd be seeing all the same year?

And people do tend, like other mammals, to get pretty busy come spring.

We were all very upset by this story this week, so hugs, indeed. Every time something like this happens -- and it does, again and again -- it is terrible and beyond upsetting. I think, though, the sad thing is stuff like this isn't about Tumblr, or any other particular form of media. Because what it...

This is very random, but my eyes popped out of my head when I looked at the bottom of the forum and saw all the birthdays today. Usually there are one or two, but today, it is: helpme123 (44) sweetdeal2015 (36) shockreverse (28) fairo (27) Colombine (27) MeepMeep (26) michaelangelo22 (25) haedron (2...

My understanding of tenting is that for as wide and long as the cervix juts into the vagina -- and it is a cylinder, not unlike the penis, so it of course has both length and width -- that's about the space we will then have within the top of the vagina once it has pulled back and is no longer filli...

Tenting is effectively more the cervix pulling back (because the uterus it is attached to is), thus, lengthening the vagina because the cervix is not jutting into it as much. In other words, it makes a little more space - anything from a couple centimeters to a few inches - the cervix was otherwise ...

Like I said, we still may NOT see eye to eye, but this is as close as it's going to get, particularly since I have to think about more with any of our content than one what user wants or thinks. Went all the way through it and redid the work for you this once, and now I need to ask this be put to be...

Glad it suits you!

Happy to be of help. :) A lot of people, btw, have trouble wrapping their brain around "invisible" methods like this pill. It might help, perhaps, to think of ALL the "tiny pills" people trust and we know work -- and the pill has been proven to work not only as fully as other med...

Don't say I never gave you anything: http://www.scarleteen.com/article/advice/lets_let_this_be_the_last_word_on_worn_out_vaginas_shall_we :P I went ahead and took the time to edit this specifically for you, so hopefully we can now move forward from here. If it still doesn't say all the things you'd ...

Welcome to the boards, kidace. :) I have a couple links that I think may help you out a lot: • First, But Not Last: On Finding, Navigating and Losing First Loves • Getting Through a Breakup Without Actually Breaking Really, I think the big thing to try and remember is that relationships change and s...

Do you feel any stress or anxiety around sexual activity? Because I'd say what is most likely is that nausea is about feelings more than your pill than about your pill, which isn't doing anything differently when you do or don't have intercourse. It does the same stuff regardless. That said, one oth...

By all means, plenty of people using hormonal methods get PMS. Not only do those methods not totally override your cycles, the way the placebo and withdrawal week are designed, chemically, your body is pretty much in a very similar chemical state just before and during the placebo week as it is just...

Sure, I can make sense of that, and I also agree with your own self-assesment here. You've created guit that now you are having a hard time letting go of. You know, you say your boyfriend is very intense about faithfulness, but have you two ever really talked about what that means, and what you both...

I take it you mean, specifically, the rapid-results test for HIV? If so, know that those tests are highly accurate and effective, and basically, if you get a negative with them, no need for blood testing, because it too will undoubtedly be negative. Blood testing is most often used anymore for verif...