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Ladypearl
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OCD & Related Behaviors / by Ladypearl
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 October 18th, 2018
...See more I do not have any OCD diagnosed, yet... However I have read a lot about people describing they have diagnosed OCD plus anxiety and have the same issue I have, so out of curiosity I wanted to hear if anyone else here got the same or similar. I do have anxiety, and would not be surprised if it has led to some sort of OCD, I have tensions all over my body and can experience weird pain all over, among these pains is my little lady bump ( read titty ), I've felt pain for 2 years now, sometimes it's all gone, sometimes it's stingy or more a cutting feeling, sometimes it just feels like a bruise and sometimes it's discomfort, and I am probably hyperaware of everything that grace the skin, a shirt, a bra, freaking out when it was just my braided hair that fell over the tit. So as you might guess, what my anxiety tells me, is that it's breastcancer, and I have this obsessive behaviour of always checking, checking checking and checking again, several times a day, like something would have popped up within that 30 minutes since last time I checked, or "maybe I missed something! I have to check again", over and over and over, so surely, my tit might be sore cause I'm constantly prodding on it, but if I don't I think I'm missing "the cancer". I've tried to schedule the pain and see if it somehow lines up with my period, and I don't do anything really during my period cause my boobies are naturally lumpy then, but for the rest of the month, constant fear, constant checking, theres no lump, no redness, swelling, thicker skin, no nothing, the pain could be fibrosystic surely, but also the muscle cause I got tension in my whole body, hormonal, or anything else that is not cancerous, and I don't really have a family history of cancer, but still it feels like I will freak out if I don't check all the time!! It drives me insane. I will go to the hospital soon and talk about that pain among other things, maybe they do an ultrasound, maybe they don't find anything, but I'm afraid that my anxiety will tell me "doctors can be wrong" and I will keep checking myself to madness.
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Which is healthier, vegan or vegetarian?
Healthy Living / by Ladypearl
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 October 8th, 2017
...See more I came across a documentary where people who had cancer switched to a vegetarian diet and became healthy, sounds a little bit of a miracle to me, but maybe it is true? However it made me question, which one is generaly healthier between vegans and vegetarians?
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Wasn't there a food chategory?
Safety & Knowledge at 7 Cups / by Ladypearl
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 March 23rd, 2017
...See more I was so sure there was a food chategory where people discussed problems with lets say veganism and their family and such but I can't find it, it's not in "eating disorders" or in "healthy livng", but I can't find it so maybe I've just mixed something up?
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Been cheated on? Dare to tell your experience?
Relationship Stress / by Ladypearl
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 January 10th, 2017
...See more Couldn't find a thread with this ( or I am blind despite the search function ) Have you been cheated on? Myself have been cheated on ( several times from the same person ) which left a big scar within me. How did you heal from it? ( if you did ) Where you nervous in a new relationship? How did it affect your trust towards people and to trust someone again in a relationship? How do you think about yourself? Want to share your story? To answer those questions myself. How did I heal? I don't think I've fully healed, so I don't have an answer for that yet. I was nervous to enter a new relationship, how could someone not want someone else and not only me? But I gave it a shot, after more then a year now, everything is good and no cheating. It was hard to trust, my current boyfriend had to deal with quite some months ( like 8+ months atleast ) of me gaining trust for him, getting to know him, etc. I get moments where I think "Why would I be worthy of not being cheated on, with all my problems I'm hardly someone to want to stay with, I'm hardly the prettiest, I sleep to 4 in the afternoon and got problems with my vagina", I've already talked to my boyfriend about all of this that I am scared of and he says that he for certain only wants me, but I guess it will take a long time for this feeling to go away, it's like my head is using my experience as proof that no one will not cheat on me, but at the same time no one is the same, myself want to be commited to someone and there is more like me, and my boyfriend I truly believe is like me on that part, to stay commited, but this experience of being cheated on drags me down from time to time and I somehow don't feel worthy. There was several things that was going on in my past relationship that made scars within me but to be cheated on when I put my trust in that person was like the icing on the cake so to say. ( do you say icing on the cake? )
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21 mg iron pill???
Healthy Living / by Ladypearl
Last post
 February 23rd, 2017
...See more Due to my problem of eating nuts due to my oversensitivity I lack in iron, I got suppliments today, tough it says that one pill contains 21 mg of iron, when i read that the daily dose of iron for women is 14 mg ( or was it 15? ) but then I guess that should be taken with a pinch of salt since some women are bigger and some are smaller, which means some need less and some need more, I would guess. Tough the body only takes 10% of the nutritients you eat, so I am confused here. If I take one pill, will my body take about 2 mg of iron from it? and the rest I have to eat? However with that logic, if the body need 14-15 mg of iron that would mean I have to eat 140-150 mg iron a day, which I question if even a meat eater can achieve But that sounds slightly insane, but 21 mg would be an overdose? These pills are made for vegetarians and vegans, but whatever you're veg or meateater, you still only need 14 mg of iron? So why 21 mg of iron in one pill? Is it to "fill up the storage" of iron in your body if you don't get enough from other sources of food?
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