Feelings

Here’s where you can read about feelings: created by our brains and endocrine systems in response to the rest of our bodies, our memories, and our lives in the world. All kinds of emotions – happiness, sadness, worry, sympathy, affection, embarrassment, envy, love – can be in play with our experiences of ourselves, sex, sexuality and relationships. Gaining awareness, acceptance and understanding of our feelings can be central to living with them and navigating things like mental illness and emotional wellbeing.

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Articles and Advice in this area:

Article
  • Heather Corinna

A starter guide to managing and resolving interpersonal conflict.

Article
  • Sam Wall

You’re considering or have made it to therapy. Now how do you do your part to benefit from it?

Article

Feeling anxious? There are lots of resources available to help!

Advice
  • Sam Wall

Izzybelle’s question continued: A few years ago, I met a guy and we became really close friends. After a year, we stopped being friends because I felt (my parents also felt this way) that he didn’t care about me; he never texted me (literally never) and he never wanted to hang out, but I was blind…

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  • Sara Brezinski

Feeling ashamed about sex or sexuality? Here are some steps to help you get started on turning that around so you can learn to love, not revile, your sexual self.

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  • Sam Wall
  • Isabella Rotman

Going away to school can present some new sexual challenges. Here’s a get-you-started guide to grow on.

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  • Andi MacDonald

How to tame those scary, growly feelings and use them for good.

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  • Sam Wall

At Scarleteen, we’re all about making choices. But sometimes, we see users making choices that are, ultimately, the opposite of the self-care the need in that moment.

Article
  • Mary Maxfield Brave

The disorder that terrorizes me persuades me to keep it active as a security system even though it is anything but.

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Many people feel they’d like to reproduce, parent, or both in their lives. I wouldn’t say either of those things – that it’s “slutty” or “weird” – are true about these feelings and desires, whatever your age. I’d say the feelings you’re having are some of the most common human wants there are, and…