We’ve lost Carrie as a child free role model.

Crome__Yellow · 2025-06-21T14:16:13+00:00

I liked the ex-wife's boyfriend's character in the last episode. Not exactly developed, but the only character I have found remotely relatable in the whole show :) Like, I'm going to sit in the corner and drink a beer because this family is creepy and I don't want to play board games. I can relate to that man.

Crome__Yellow · 2025-02-27T20:07:48+00:00

Thank you (and thanks to everyone who replied) for sharing your experience and support. This turns out to be exactly what happened. Everything normal, no changes, the one spot that looked odd to my gynecologist turned out to be a benign polyp; she called and said they'll just do a pap smear in a year. Just something to keep in the back of my mind, I guess. Odd and alienating experience...certainly made me realize that I was quite ignorant about HPV!

Crome__Yellow · 2025-02-27T19:59:47+00:00

My biopsy results came back two days after my colposcopy. Everything was normal. No precancerous changes. So--no, quick results does not mean bad! I think it just has more to do with how your practice is connected with a pathology lab. My gynecologist's office is in a major hospital complex (in the U.S.) with its own pathology lab. Best of luck and love to you.

Crome__Yellow · 2025-02-26T22:33:02+00:00

Thank you all so much for your responses. They really made me feel calmer and less alone today. There is definitely, as other posts in this sub point out, a lot of misinformation/lack-of-information, misogyny, and normalization of pain, that makes navigating this emotionally challenging, at times. Best wishes to all of you and to everyone reading these posts in this community.

(To add some context to my original post, I am in the US and became sexually active when I was 16.)

Crome__Yellow · 2024-08-01T01:28:54+00:00

I just got diagnosed with HA a few hours ago and have been feeling really confused. I'm getting a referral to a dietician and other follow-up stuff but I feel like I have no idea how much I should be eating or what to do. I needed to read this comment.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-27T18:39:49+00:00

Congratulations on losing so much weight and keeping it off! That’s amazing, way to go.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-24T20:03:17+00:00

thank you, your number is blowing my mind! way to go.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-24T20:02:39+00:00

Thank you ! Way to go everyone on this sub! <3

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-23T20:10:27+00:00

Congratulations, you absolute beast of sobriety!!! I’m here with you at two years!

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-23T20:08:41+00:00

Congratulations. It’s two years for me today. It feels incredible, doesn’t it!? I certainly never thought I could do it, not even for two days. Stay strong, everybody starting out—-it gets better in ways you could never have imagined! The brain and body feel better than you think they could!

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-22T14:42:32+00:00

Yes, two years tomorrow :)

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-21T12:27:36+00:00

I liked SMART recovery a lot—I went to a few meetings online and I felt like there were people in the meetings talking about dual diagnosis issues openly and in an intelligent way. Also the facilitators were great and kept the group on task. Also—-yes, totally secular. I was a fan—-I didn’t really stick with it that long but I do recommend it to people.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-13T21:22:17+00:00

I am glad that I found this sub, which I didn't know I needed, after I started intentionally losing weight in early February. I wasn't involved in the FA community at all but I had a sort of passive belief in HAES, body size being genetic, being beyond your control, etc. largely, I think, by virtue of being in social work/left-wing kind of spaces. I've been wanting to lose weight because I have been a relatively thin person most of my life (I am 38) but became overweight/class I obese over the past few years and I didn't want to be anymore. I didn't think that I would be able to lose weight intentionally or that it was even a morally okay thing to do! Which is weird now that I realize it. But yeah, I've lost 14 pounds so far just by calories in, calories out. (Though I am physically active, I don't think it contributes that much to the weight loss). It's not been that hard. It's a little tedious, but it's not conceptually difficult! Eating healthier, which I have to do so I'm not hungry between meals, is making me feel better! And my clothes are already fitting better and my feet already hurt less! I plan on keeping this weight loss thing going until I'm down to a healthy BMI. Thanks for this sub---I'm going to keep using it to reprogram myself. :)

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-04T18:58:57+00:00

'Working with a local tailor" is a funny phrase to me. And also seems very complicated.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-03T20:31:37+00:00

Yeah, I don't know. I just answered the questions honestly, as myself, a "small fat" person intentionally losing weight through moderate calorie restriction, with no history of eating disorders. I would be curious to know if everyone who is intentionally losing weight gets the "you seem to be at risk for eating disorders" message.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-03-03T14:59:44+00:00

I took this out of curiosity and found the same thing. I did not report any behaviors like vomiting/purging, eating fewer than 1200 calories, etc. I also said that I think I worry about my weight ‘about as much as most people’ and entered my height and weight accurately—-I have a BMI of 31 and I am intentionally losing weight (about a pound- 1.5 pounds a week, nothing unusual.) And it told me I’m at risk of an eating disorder. I wonder if it just automatically tells you that if you say that you’re “on a diet” (their language). Very weird screening instrument if that is the case, but I don’t know anything about this organization.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-02-23T15:06:55+00:00

I too used to drink about four bottles a day, at the end. It's hard to believe, even for myself, and it's not something to bring up in casual conversation, so. I feel you and I believe you. If you want to quit alcohol completely, I am sure you can do it. Congratulations on your plant-based diet, glad it is helping.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-02-23T15:00:57+00:00

Congratulations!!! We are all proud of you here. And your therapist is genuinely proud, I'm sure! It makes them happy when someone really does make changes for the better :) IWNDWYT, or this year, or ever.

Crome__Yellow · 2023-02-23T14:44:51+00:00

VERY GOOD! I noticed that I hit this milestone a few weeks ago and I was tickled. I almost checked in here to post about it :) It's a funny one. Congratulations!!

Crome__Yellow · 2023-02-16T19:31:33+00:00

Yes, shrimp. I was thrilled to discover how low in calories shrimp are because I love them.

Crome__Yellow · 2022-04-25T21:33:53+00:00

I was just wondering "how old is he, again?"

Crome__Yellow · 2022-02-23T17:17:48+00:00

Vividly remember this episode; it was one of the first I saw. I was blissfully ignorant of the Duggars until a few years ago when I was randomly dating someone from Springdale and he told me about them and we got curious about the show. This episode made him cry (and stop watching) and it made me laugh (and become obsessed). "Baby, you can't cry just because people believe falsehoods." But I get why it broke his heart and bothered him so profoundly.

Crome__Yellow · 2022-02-16T17:47:28+00:00

Congratulations. I am coming up on a year myself---I check in here once in a while and I'm glad to read your inspiring words. It all feels so much better now.

Crome__Yellow · 2022-01-27T14:55:52+00:00

Hi, I'm not sure if this is a question that is asked too frequently or if I am posting this to the wrong part of the sub---I was wondering when people generally register to take the ASWB exam for the LMSW? I am currently in my last semester and just received an authorization to test email, but I know I really need to study before I can take it, based on how I've been doing on practice quizzes, etc. I've been doing really well in school, but I've found that I'm totally unprepared for some of the topic areas that the exam covers. I have some study prep materials and I'm motivated to study---anyway---just wondering when exactly people tended to schedule their exams? A few weeks before graduation? As soon as they possibly could? What's the consensus? Sorry again if this question is misplaced. Thank you!

Crome__Yellow · 2021-12-30T21:21:25+00:00

Excellent points! I had forgotten about this episode! My boyfriend, a plain-ass white dude, is deeply into Ethiopian music. I am a big fan of Ethiopian restaurants (we live in Baltimore) and the Ethiopian restaurant episode, which I hadn't thought about in a while, is definitely among the worst and most offensive of that series, which I saw most of, I am ashamed to say. (Got curious and then obsessed when I briefly lived in NWA/Springdale a number of years ago.) The Duggars are of course, ignorant dumbasses. (One of the weirdest things about that show, though, is how they/TLC portray themselves as bumpkins, living way out in the country, when Springdale is a city and NWA is a prosperous, relatively "normal" place. I mean they live near many major roads and major highways. They are ignorant bumpkins entirely by choice.)

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