How much would it cost to go to a therapist?

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I currently have no health insurance. My mom is on limited income and only makes around $800 a month and by the time we pay bills, we only have about $50-100 left over.

When I was about 13, I was sexually harassed by my best friendâs brother. It started out as he would make moaning noises while I was in the hallway, but then progressed. One day, when I was walking out of middle school, he went and grabbed for my butt. But because I am comfortable with lose backpacks, he missed and broke my backpack. One situation has caused me a lot of pain and still is, even at the age of 24. I was over at my friendâs house. Her dad was gone and it was just me, her, and her brother. She left to go to the bathroom. When she was gone, he jumped on top of me and tried to pin me down. Luckily, I was already on edge being around him, so as soon as he inched near me, I kicked him in the stomach, which caused him to fall and hit his head on a chair.

Ever since that incident, I cannot be alone with a guy. I start hyper venting and get a panic attack and I start crying. I have always been quiet, but ever since then, I would not talk to anyone. If people said hi to me, I would say hi and that was it. In high school, I made no friends. And still have none. Iâm a college student but because Iâm scared of certain environments, I take online classes.

I have big dreams of moving to California and hopefully starting over, once I graduate college. But I know I have serious issues. I feel like such a freak and a total loser. Because of what happened to me, at the age of 24, I have never had a boyfriend, sex, or my first kiss. I have also gained A LOT of weight. Before this happened, I was very active and happy. I would constantly be outside having fun, playing basketball, tennis, croquet, bad mitten, or just anything active like biking or even running. I weighed around 100-110 pounds. But now, all I do is stay home, eat, and watch TV. I currently weight 240 pounds.

I feel like such a failure. I never leave the house because I donât like social environments, plus Iâm ashamed of the way I look. Iâm fat and ugly. I think the last time I left my house was a week ago.

I had a job a few years ago at a grocery store. Soon, I had an employee, who was also a man, start making comments to me. Iâm a natural blonde. So he always told me how stupid I was. He would make comments like how did I even get in college since I was stupid. When I would make a simple mistake he would tell me what a dumb blonde I was. Before he came on to the job, I was really happy. I was breaking out of my shell and even made friends at my job. I loved working and the customers loved me (at least thatâs what they told me. They told me I was the nicest and their favorite cashier at the store). I would never miss a day of work. But when he came on, I hated work and prayed that I would get sick from someone so that I could miss. I would literally cry because I had to go to work. Eventually, someone overheard this guy make reference how I was dumb and they reported him. But after that, they would make me work with him every single day. I eventually quit a few months after that, giving them an excuse about school.

But ever since then, itâs been so hard to find that happiness I felt. Iâm 24 years old. I have a dog that I treat like a princess. I always imagined that I would have been married with kids by the age of 25. I have always been mature and just want someone to love me like I would love them. I know Iâm not the prettiest, but I am a good person. I remember one time I had a friend (I met him through someone else) and he told me that if I would just break out of my shell and talk to people, I would be so popular because Iâm funny, nice, and great to be around. I wish I could be that person.

I had health insurance up until I reached 18. So I have been without any for 6 years. During this time, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety, as well as suffering from panic attacks at times. I took a mental illness class last semester and I honestly believe I could suffer from PTSD as well since I cannot be alone in the same room with a guy. As long as thereâs a female in the room, Iâm fine.

I know I need help. I live in a small town with no free insurance or anything like that. I have registered for a low income health insurance from Indiana called HIP, but they denied me because they are already at capacity.

So Iâm wondering how much it would cost to go see a therapist.

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Try your county mental health services. They have clinics that operate on a sliding scale based on ability to pay. These clinics have therapists and psychiatrists available, and often have pharmacies where patients can obtain medication for a nominal fee.
Look in the yellow pages/phone book in the blue pages/government section under County. Look under Health Department or Mental Health. If you can't find it, look online. Google your county and state name and Mental health (or health department) If you still can't find it, call your local library and ask the reference librarian to help you find mental health services in your area. Reference librarians are very resourceful and should be able to come up with the information quickly. All the best to you.

Can a high school student be penalized for possession of acetaminophen (Tylenol) as drug possession?

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I am going into my freshman year of high school on Wednesday. I suffer from minor but frequent headaches around midday, this happens about once in two weeks. Since nurses are forbidden from giving any medicine before 11:00 AM, i started having a small bottle of regular strength Tylenol ( it was Wal-mart brand, not authentic Tylenol) in my locker. I did this last year in the last two weeks of school figuring that i could take one in between classes if a headache started to develop.

However, as the school year came to a close and we emptied out our lockers, a classmate saw me taking the bottle out of my locker and putting it in my pocket. She warned me to stop taking it in school because if a school official discovered it, I could be penalized for drug posession.

I took her advice and plan to not bring it this year, but is it true that I could have been busted if a teacher found it?

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Being a female, my mom practically forces me to bring Tylenol to school in case of cramps and other symptoms that go along with my time of the month. Well, one day my friend had a bad headache so I offered her a pill.

I didn't conceal it well so a kid saw me. Now, I was far from popular in those days. I had many friends, but they were the kind that wore a lot of dark make-up, chains, black fishnet types... you get the picture. So this girl who didn't exactly like me went and told a teacher.

So they come in my classroom and drag me out with my backpack and purse and search through all of my things. They find my Tylenol, my cellphone, and my CD player.

They yell at me and tell me that Tylenol is prohibited, that I'm not allowed to have cellphones on school property, but I understood the CD player.

They notified my mother, who got extremely angry with the school system. See, it is a male principle and she told him that I get bad cramps and she works out of town (I lived alone with her) so she can't come and pick me up during the day and bring me medicine. On that same note, she works out of town so that's why she makes me carry my cell to school--in case I'm locked out of the house. She didn't get home until sevenish or later and I get out of school at three.

We have no relatives that live near us.

But I digress.

I still wound up getting in-school suspension, but that's it. But yes, you can get in trouble if you have any type of Tylenol type medicine on you.

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how can i get a boy in year 9 to like me...?

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Q. i have asked a guy in year 9 out well my friends did for me. And i really like him what should i do to get him to like me.... Any answers...??? HELP!!!!!

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i guess you mean 9th grade freshman in high school if in usa . you can not make anyone do anything unless they want to. however you can influcence them by what you say do or act while around them. by the question this guy is either older or younger than you . you don't let us know your age or grade status so hard to tell you if its appropreiate or not. say if your a 6th or 7th grader it may not be approperiate. if an 8th grader it would be more approperate or slightly older a 10th grader that would also be approperate by most . there are exceptions to all rules of thumbs though.
1st off does he know you personally
2nd why send a friend to ask him out for you , he'll wonder why
3rd if send a friend they should be gathering info for you such as "do you know my friend so and so
what do you think of her? she was talking to me other day and she mentioned she like to get to know you. that kind of things

however it seems tha cats out of the bag so when you friend ask was it positive or negative. or non commital type answer such as " i don't know"

are you nice looking enough to where he might like your looks (not that you have to be a super model or anything) but alot of guys likes girls who are pretty. (also take into account that beauty is in the eye of the beholder ) what one guy may think is average another would think was stunning looking.

while around him if your not to shy of a person do alot of flirting any kind as longas its obvious to him your flirting . depending on the guy ,many guys don't reckonize body language of girls so they think a girl that flips her hair off her shoulders as her doing just that , not that that is a subtle flirt of her trying to get himto look at her (face /hair she justflipped)

Body language messages are sent automatically and unconsciously. Women send approximately five times more body language messages and gestures than men in the same time period. Women read body language much better than men. Men make a lot of mistakes in displaying their body language and make it easy for women to read their intentions.
Body language has proven to be our most reliable indicator of how others feel about us. For millions of generations, body language has been one of our best tools for successful survival and mating. Since humans learned to speak, we have switched to paying more attention to verbal messages and frequently ignore body language messages. This is unfortunate because unconscious body language messages are accurate and truthful. Words often are not truthful. When two people are relating to each other, the body language messages reveal how each person really feels about the other from minute to minute.

Body language comes from reflex responses deep in the limbic system part of the old brain. Most unconscious body language deals with survival and passing-on our genes to future generations (i.e. getting sex). Habitual body language that worked for survival and mating has been perfected and repeated for millions of generations. Women and men today are still using much of the same body language to attract a mate that their ancient ancestors used. Background Discover More . . .


Women's Flirting Body Language Revealed!
The most common way women flirt to attract a man's attention is preening. Tossing their hair around, stroking and combing it, and generally moving it away from face and shoulders to expose soft bare skin are strong signals that women use to get men's attention.
Another great preening move men enjoy watching is for a woman to do things calling attention to her mouth. Licking her lips, putting on lipstick, or eating something slowly with obvious great pleasure is stimulating to men. Just watching her mouth makes men hungry for the smell and taste of all of her stimulating and delicious pheromones.

Entwining her legs draws attention to being a woman. Men can't do this because their hips are too narrow. However, in this case it indicates not only that she is a woman but also she is closed to sexual advances from men. Her tight leg muscles indicate she is very protective of her private area. However, to most men her tight leg muscles are appealing and they are his challenge to untangle.

Slowly crossing or uncrossing her legs while gently stroking her thigh is unmistakable female flirting body language. Another great move is for her to adjust clothing with loosening, opening or exposing movements to call attention to her body. If she is clever, she exposes some bare skin in the process. This is where the guy accidentally misses his mouth and pours his drink in his lap while trying "not to look".

When sitting with legs crossed, bouncing her foot back and forth rhythmically while dangling one shoe off her toe signals much more than, "My foot is tired and I want to go to bed!"

When a woman rubs her neck or head with one hand, while talking to a man, it raises her breast toward his face and makes him fail to hear most of her

What do Americans think of chivalry?

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In 2010, when I was a school student in Kazakhstan, I went to the USA as the participant of a summer school program. There were 6 of us, and our instructors strictly prohibited our boys to help American girls with their heavy bags and to open doors for them, since they might be offended.

Can anyone explain what is offensive about that?
Louis, of course they are capable, but if it's much easier for a guy to carry that bag, so what's the problem? She'll do something nice in response too.
Or do American men do it like: "Hey! You cannot carry that bag yourself, can you? Lol what a p*ssy! Give me your bag, you piece of crap!"
I didn't notice that in the USA, to be honest, most of the guys were quite normal there in Washington DC.

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I duno but I think that's harsh, im an English guy but I would have helped you or any woman struggling with their heavy bags, to me its part of being a man and you should respect woman in that way .... even if I got in trouble for it, I would have helped any girl struggling with heavy bags and fu*k who tells me I can't ..... theyd have to stop me :)

hey babe - add your naughty piggy back please - I was deleted :( but I got those besties first *hugs you and clings on*

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