I binge watched a couple on YouTube walking the Camino de Santiago about six weeks ago. It looked so pleasant and frankly, easy compared to the AT.

Praying

Increasing dosage as she grows is absolutely normal.

If there’s any time to do it, it’s this year. Think of it like red lipstick- technically classic, always ok, feels silly the first few times you wear it in public, but then you get over it.

Apply and decide when you get an offer. The job won’t be open next year.

There are many different kinds of therapy. I think in the case of unchanging facts, the only thing you can actually change is your thought process. The kind of therapy that’s about changing thoughts is called cognitive behavioral therapy. It’s usually a short course of therapy with homework assignments that teaches you how to identify untrue thoughts and think differently. It’s extremely effective for depression. It’s also extremely effective for kids with a lot of negative factors they have no control over in life like kids in foster care. Secondly, if you’re on hormonal birth control, think about a short trial of a non-hormonal method. I’m extremely pro hormonal birth control, but sometimes it has negative effects on mental health. If it’s a contributing factor, you should know in less than a week. And another formula might be fine.

No, but I did into my mid 20's.

Did she end up on Slynd? I would encourage trying that, because it won't add to the estrogen load and if it works without emotional issues, she could eventually try a hormonal IUD, which can be a lower dose and gets rid of periods for many women entirely. ETA: if/when she tries the IUD, make sure they have anesthesia available. For many women it's NBD but for those who it hurts, it really hurts.

I'm so happy for you!

There’s so many scarier creatures there, I think it’s safe to say that even if they were common, they still wouldn’t be that bad.

I appreciate that. But I can also recognize that as much as she wanted to give the appearance of logic, it was an emotional response. Of course the men in her own life aren’t dangerous. And of course she felt a visceral response to something she didn’t understand. I didn’t have to take the bait.

Well first of all, double denim was declared in by Vogue sometime during this school year. And judging by recent runways, it’s still in. Even if it was out last year. Secondly, this outfit works anyway because the denims don’t clash and the top provides some separation. If you wore khakis or another pant it would also work.

He’s 14 and it was a busy weekend. When he complained again you took him in. I think you’re in the clear. Give yourself some grace.

I’m sorry. I have an uncle that got diagnosed with MS maybe 20 years ago. It’s been progressing very slowly. He only needed a wheelchair in the past couple years.

I think you’re right. Seizures or migraines. Pain can definitely cause personality changes.

Your response wasn’t to the logic. Your response was that my line of thought regarding criminals was crazy. That’s also an untrue equivalency. I grew up the child of first a cop, then police chief in North Florida. My first series of nightmares happened after Ted Bundy kidnapped a girl from an elementary school not far from my own. That might not have been the start of drilling stranger danger into my whole generation, but it was definitely the start of my parents warning me. Not many years after that the Gainesville serial killer started killing young women not far from me. We had to change plans repeatedly to not go near there. Unfortunately more than one police officer in my family ended up in a shootout with someone who annihilated their families in South Florida and drove North to escape. Unfortunately one of them was killed. So yeah, I realize that not everyone has their childhood shaped by multiple murderers. But mine was. It doesn’t make me afraid, but it possible I’m more aware of the dark side of life than you are. That doesn’t make me crazy. It doesn’t make my working knowledge of how serial killers or family annihilators act illogical. It’s probably true that you just have less knowledge in this area.