"Good" touch and "bad" touch are words most commonly used to explain to children what touch is and isn't okay, and help them understand what situations they should tell a safe person about and ask for help, and how they should treat other people. For children, "good" to...

I'm glad you were able to arrange a different method. And you're welcome!

No worries! Well, I think what I said covers it, then. Anything else you need?

If pills have been affected by heat, that should be visible looking at the pack: something would look wrong with the pills or with the inside of their little blister pack. If everything seems fine, there's no reason to think that couple of hours of sunlight was a problem, especially if there was a c...

Very happy to help you out with this! Yes, very usually, a heart condition and migraine means that it isn't suitable for a person to use a birth control method that includes estrogen. Depending on your own particular medical situation - which you'd need a healthcare provider to tell you for sure - i...

Coming off the pill - or starting/stopping any hormonal method, really - can sometimes cause some side effects for a few cycles. It's most likely that any undesirable side-effects will sort themselves out within a few cycles, once your body adjusts to the change. It's not really possible to predict ...

Hi Pinkunicorn, I saw in your other thread where you talked with Heather that you also had an implant removed within the last couple of months. Whenever someone makes a change with hormonal contraception like that, side effects are fairly common over the next few cycles. Too, breakthrough bleeding i...

We will not answer ANY questions about pregnancy fear or anxiety in our direct services from users who are not pregnant or who are not or have not otherwise been directly involved with an actual pregnancy. Please do not post this kind of question. If you are seeing this text, and your thread is loc...

We will not answer ANY questions about pregnancy fear or anxiety in our direct services from users who are not pregnant or who are not or have not otherwise been directly involved with an actual pregnancy. Please do not post this kind of question. If you are seeing this text, and your thread is loc...

Yay!

lemme let you both in on a secret - although for different reasons than you both, *I* needed to read this thread, too.

I can give you my opinion about this, and hope someone else with more solid explainable reasons than "because it seems right" pitches in too :) There are very legitimate reasons why you asking for contact details for somebody in her therapy/medical support systems is absolutely reasonable ...

I'm glad you have a therapist you can see. Do you feel good about this therapist and like they're someone you could make progress with? I'm happy that was helpful! I think if we're feeling very isolated, very separate from other people, we can lose access to the wider perspective and get to feeling ...

When you say "affect less people", are you meaning more any possible legal implications like Mo was talking about above, or are you thinking that sharing porn is in itself bad for people? Also, just to clarify a couple of things Mo said: at least in most legal systems where porn isn't blan...

That all sounds like a very good plan of action for your university stuff - good for you. Sometimes not being very anxious during a therapy appointment is a very good thing. Anxiety really interferes with thought processes and your comprehension and memory while you've having it, so it's actually ve...

I have no idea about possible waiting lists at headspace, so you'll just have to try them and find out, won't you :) I'm sorry the people around you aren't able to be the kind of support you need around this. A helpline or crisis line can also be really good in situations like that: the person on th...

I'm so sorry to hear this, aj2234, although I'm glad you're realising you need some support and are reaching out. I had a look at the Australian mental health services we link to, and right at the top of headspace's About Us page is "headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation prov...

Are you able to go back to a therapist or counsellor? When someone's feeling like they want to make significant changes to their life but don't know how or where to start, or anxiety makes it hard to do things you want to do, or you're feeling really down on yourself and overwhelmed, those are all s...

Are you up to date with your sexual healthcare, including STI testing? Per the pregnancy concern part of your question: We will not answer ANY questions about pregnancy fear or anxiety in our direct services from users who are not pregnant or who are not or have not otherwise been directly involved ...

Obviously it's up to you if you want to get a diaphragm shipped from Europe. If it's a thing you want, I'm glad you've found a way to get it, even if that includes a relatively long delivery time! If you're feeling happy with fertility awareness and withdrawal, and those methods are going well for y...

You've talked about not being allowed your own boundaries as a child/young person, and how the people around you acted like it would be a very wrong thing for you to have and enforce your own boundaries. That kind of conditioning can be very hard to break, and it's not surprising that you'd carry th...

I'm glad you've been able to start this process for yourself. I hope the National Autistic Society is able to provide you with the support and advice that you need. The NAS probably wouldn't be able to tell you who your social worker is because they probably don't have access to that information. Th...

I think that seeing a more experienced provider (so, not that intern) and getting their opinion would be a very good idea. For sure, people need to learn, but it sounds like that intern would have given you much better service if she'd sought some input from the gyn she was working for. Like Heather...

Can I first check with you if you're legally responsible for your own self or whether either of your parents or anyone else has any legal guardianship or Power of Attorney over you or your affairs? Also, do you have any existing contact with any social services or disability/autism organisations? Th...

IthilienDude, I'm also offering a giant internet hug your way. I'm so sorry these various people put you through what they did and left you with these massively hard feelings. Although I'm so glad that Scarleteen has been able to be here for you and help! I wanted to say something about the part whe...