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zuffer-weird-girl · 3 years

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You want a chubby Kai hurt/comfort ask? Alright chubby Kai feels that he doesn’t look good enough to be with angel because Angel has this one handsome friend so Angel asks him what’s wrong

"For God's sake..." he grumbled as he was having a battle against the buttons of his shirt, trying to close his attire to just start the day for once.

"Need any help love?" You giggled from the bathroom as hos golden orbs narrowed before sighing and rolling his eyes. Giving uo on the dress shirt and hoing for anothe rone on his closet instead.

He would be lying if he blame it on you for his gain weight but was not entirely wrong about the issue as well. He had spacked off on his aleating habbits a bit over the past year, still remaining eating healthy things like always but increasing his appetite with some... appetitiziers you had suggested.

"Hey dont get mad at me!" You cooed as he huffed a annoyed sigh, buttoning up his shirt before he tensed at your warm embrace from behind while nuzzling on his shoulders blades.

"Enough." His hands brushed you off but you smiled instead of being offended. Knowing that even despite the years of dating, your boyfriend wasn't one used to touch neither be touched... but the tips of his ears getting all red over a simple kiss on his back and hug told you everything that he packed off on saying.

"Geez, grumpy today aren't we?" You pouted as he fixed his shirt and put on his jacket.

"If you stop commenting about my humor dearest I will take you out to that place you wanted badly." He flinched at your excited and surprised gasp before receiving a kiss on his covered cheek as you printed off to get your things as he scoffed, gloved fingers brushing against the area where your lips had been.

"There's that stand of crepes over there!" You tugged on his jacket as he deadpanned at you.

"If I remember correctly you saw the issue with my prwvious shirt this morning didn't you?" He arched one of his eyebrows up as you pouted.

"Is just a shirt Kai! Come on!!" You looked at him with puppy eyes "Is not every day we get one pleasee??"

That damn look of yours was gonna be the death of him...

Sighing and hating himself at already feeling aome sorta of craving for the sweet, he picked his wallet on his pocket as you squealed happily.

No one could tell by looking at his eyes that he was actually happy... seing your face brighten up like that just because of a simple sweet that HE bought to you was slightly... like a warm feeling inside his chest.

He could simply overhaul someone or his commurates that joked that he had grew "soft" on both ways because of you... but he couldn't deny it either.

"Which one will you get?" You asoed with a smile as he handed the cash and soon got his napkin put to rub his gloved hands.

"None. You asked for it, so only you get one." He eyed your pouty lips as he sighed, rubbing your cheek affectionaly, a rare sign of affection from him "Stop with that face. Im fine."

The man handed the sweet to you as he walked a bit away, waiting for you to catch up with him until he noticed you talking excitedly with another male.

His eyes immediately narrowed at the sign but before he could actually just pry you off and kill the young male he notices something... the guy had a fair share of muscles, much more than he jad before gaining weight. He was constantly speaking with a bright smile on his face as he stood way too close to his liking near you.

You... actually looked like a coupke from afar.

His teeth gritted as his hands tightened into fits... remenbering that for a long time now he couldn't even see himself in the freacking mirror anymore. Not only he had an illness but also was disgusting on appearance as well?

Constantly he got intrusive thoughts that you should have someone better. A man that could bare to have you clinged onto him qithout getting tense over it, a guy who actually took you out on dates constantly and also didn't got you in danger like he did... someone with better appearance...

"Kai?" His thoughts were interrupted when he heard your voice, looking at him with some sorta of worry "You're standing there for a while now... didn't even came when I called you to meet my friend."

He stayes quiet.. bored look locked with yours as he merely sighed, started to walk and waved at you.

"I have other places to be with. Need to finish a job Pops assigned to me."

"Oh.." you muttered, dissapointed present on yoir voice at only heating he was going to be busy for the rest of the day "Then maybe on the evening we-"

"Dont wait up. I might only be free by night time." He eued you for a bit before sighing and looking ahead of him "Dont bother with it."

"I see.." you muttered, his heart clenching at seing you, once so cheerful now just looking like a cloud was over your head...

Yet he decided to ignore.

He couldn't even concetrate on his work anymore... evertime he got closer to qrite or sign somwtjing he could feel his stomach double over as the movement made his ahirt and pants feel tigher than before.

"Fucking fat ass." He growled in anger as he signed with more forece than necessary a paper and almost threw it on some pile before heating some knocks "Say your name and bussines."

"Hi." You cooed, showing aprehensively your face on the door as he arched an eyebrow at your presence.

"I recalled you had other places to be qith at this time?" He said while looking at the clock stuck on the wall as you aproached his desk with a cup.

"Yeah, but it got cancelled... So-!" You put the warm cup on his desk "I thought maybe a treat could bright up the day of my handsome boyfriend."

He scoffed at that word... "handsome"... sure, as if he could be now in the state he is in.

"What is this?" He looked down at the cup and saw a white cloud with bits of caramel on top of it.

"A frappuccino!" You skiled brightly "I saw it on the menu of a cafeteria and I thought you might like it."

His eyes soften at your gesture but still he was adamant on just even breathing near that thing... it looked like one gulp of that he could gain at least 100 pounds...

"I appreciate your gesture, but Im curring all the sugary things for now." He scoffed while pushing the drink back to you before turning to get on his laptop.

The hurt you felt wasn't what bothered you but what Chisaki has been doing all day... Getting away from you like you were the plague and everything eatible at this point.

"Ok. I know how much you hate when I get like this, but what the hell is going on?" Your words seemes to stop Chisaki right when he was about to write something as he looked at you with only one narrowed eye...

"I beg you pardon?"

"Kai you cant say to me that you dont like caramel anymore! You hadn't eat nothing but a freacking apple all day and been avoiding me as well!" You exclaimed qith open arms, lowering them as well as your gaze, feeling your vision burn a bit at the feeling of tears forming "Did... did I do something..?"

A sigh once again escaped his lips, gloved fingers brushing over his darkbrow looks as he thought over his next words... Lying would get him no where and he absolietly hated the aspect of it...

Getting up he walked over you. His fingers picking on your chin and tilting it up to meet his eyes.

"You did nothing. Its only a problem of mine."

"So what is it?" You put your bottom lip out as your eyebrows furrowed. The sign of it made his own furrow deep as his jaw tighten.

"... I.." he sighed, seeing that you wouldn't back off until you knew exactly what was going on "The incident with the shirt and that encounter you had quth your friend just.. Made me think that I fallen out of shape... If I dont stop with this nonsense I might look like that filthy hero fatgum or worse... I wouldn't want you to have shame while walking besides me anyway."

It was so quiet after he finished his rants he swore he could hear his hearbeat on your ears as he waited anxiously for some sorta of response to him. Anything. Really.

"... all this because you gained a couple of pounds?" Ypu finally asked as he gritted his teeth, only to widenhis eyes at the few giggles that escaped your mouth "S-Seriously?"

"You little br-" before he could finish it yoh had pulles his mask down to kiss his lips. The shock was evident on his eyes and his body was tense and arms awkwardly hanging in the air until finally he eased uo and holdee your waist while finally kissing you back.

"You should know by now.." you panted after the kiss ended "That no matter the size or shape, I love you. Just like you dont care a bit if I gained or lost weight you love me to no ends..." you cupped his cheek as he could only stare deep i to your eyes. Someyhing you didn't know, it was that he was looking at you with so much love and adoration that even hurted.

"So that friend of yours you dont have any interest?" He carresed your hips with his thumb as you shook your head with a smile, rubbing noses against eachother.

"Nope."

"Perfect. One less sick in this world." He smirked at your gasp and call of his name in desperation, but you stoll remained glued to him.

The moment he could describe as it almost perfect if it wasn't for some intruder.

"Hey fatass we got a problem down and you need to get there." He only arched an eyebrow at Rappa but soon felt the dark airea coming out of you as you stared at Rappa with rage.

"Kai.. my beautiful man. Would you mind if I take someyhing of your office for just a bit?" He eyed you suspociouslu but nodded.

His eyes widened when you grabbed the sword Pops gave to him years ago and chased after Rappa screaming obscenities that he never thought he would have heard it from you. Especially from you.

He stared a bit astonished at where you left only to notice the drink you had brought to him. Taking into his hand he took a tentative sip before sighing in bliss.

"Sweet.."

#chubby kai x reader #chubby overhaul #chubby overhaul x reader #chubby chisaki kai x reader #bnha villains x reader #bnha villains #bnha fanfictions #bnha fanfics #zuffer writings

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princelockedinatower · 5 years

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Slow Jazz

**Fluff without plot**

like porn without plot but cute and PG and gay

Also I did 0 editing or revising cause yolo, hope you guys enjoy :)

Soft silk sheets. A mini spurge courtesy of my last trip to target. Everytime I go I swear to myself I’ll only get the thing I went there for, and everytime I come out with a leather bound journal, pack of erasers, pajamas or something christmas related among a cart full of little knick nacks and cool jizmabobs.

I stretch out, flopping over onto my back as I do and listen to the songbirds outside the window, their nice singing threatening to lure me back to sleep. For a few moments I do, feeling at peace despite the growing need to get to up for the day.

“Morning Adrian,” my husbands gruff though gentle voice awakes me. Shifting to half sit up I see him standing at the door, red hair messy, wearing only sweatpants, a gold ring around his finger with two cups of coffee in his hands “Coffee?” he asks lifting up a cup.

I give a lazy smile and nod, sitting up against the headboard as he crosses the room and carefully gets on the bed. After handing me my cup he cuddles up to me with his head on my shoulder even though he’s the taller one.

I sigh smiling, letting my eyes wonder over the room, there’s a picture of us on our wedding day, both in suits, in a cheap dollar store frame on the dresser, clothes spilling out of it as normal. Mismatched curtains on mismatching curtain rods pulled back to let the early morning sun in to rest on the rugs covering our small bedroom. Nothing’s too expensive, not even the china passed down to us that was bought at a gas station way back when but everything’s nice, warm and cozy.

“Adam?” I say, pausing to take a sip of my coffee “Do you like how we live?”

Adam looks up at me and grins, a tooth missing “I wouldn’t change a thing,”

I smile, moving to press a kiss to his lips, the bitter taste of coffee on him.

I pull away, getting off our bed and crossing over to our dresser “We should probably open the clinic soon,” I say digging through our shirts drawer looking for a specific one “What time is it actually?” I ask.

Adam suffles on the bed for his phone as I find the lime green scrub shirt I was looking for that brings out my darker green eyes “Eight twenty-six, we’ve got thirty-two minets,” he answers bolting up from our bed to join me in search of clothes.

Adam’s still searching for pants when I start fussing over my long brown wavy hair in the bathroom mirror. I get it tamed as he asks “Where are my black and red scrubs?”

I walk over to a basket of clean laundry and after digging for a millisecond I pull out the matching shirt and pants “You mean these?” I chuckle and grab my white doctors coat. He laughs, grabbing them from me and shoves them on.

Together we dash down the flight of stairs to the backroom of our clinic we own and live above. Bustling out into the waiting area I see a few patients waiting and our receptionist, Clark talking on the phone.

Upon seeing us he puts whoever was on the line on hold and hands me a clipboard “Dr. Devorack Room 1 is waiting for you,” he pauses reaching for another clipboard and giving it to Adam “Nurse Adam Room 3 is the Kylands, they’re here for their immunizations.”

Clark goes back to the phone as Adam and I go off to do our duties. Before I slip into the first room I catch Adam’s eye and blow him a kiss, he smirks and rolls his eyes as I slip into the room.

I smile gently at the small kid and mom who both look worse for wear. The kid looks about to be about six and the mom about mid thirties, both extremely tired and the kid has a few tears running down his cheeks, more coming whenever he swallows.

“Hi, I’m Dr. Devorack,” I say sitting in the swivel chair at the desk “What seems to be the problem?”

The mom rubs her eyes and tells me her son’s throat really hurts to the point he hasn’t eaten yet today. I nod and ask the kid to hop up the table while I grab a tongue stick.

Gently I feel his throat which is swollen and hot then ask him to say “aww” for me. Little white dots line his throat and I decide to take his temperature. It reads 38.1*C and I start typing in my computer “Your son has a case of Strep Throat, so I’m going to give you a precription to give to him for ten days,” I say printing off the required sheet “Make sure he takes all ten days or the infection might come back.”

She nods thanking me, visibly relieved as I stand and get the door for them. A warm feeling spreads from my chest as I smile, something about helping people makes me feel this way. Grabbing the clipboard I head back to the waiting room with the mom and kid.

Clark already has another clipboard for me when I reach his desk and I let myself fall into the familiar routine of helping patients all day long, only stopping for a quick lunch with Adam, Clark and our other nurse Natasha.

Closing time rolls around at five, Clark and Natasha going home before I finish with my last patient of the day, Adam doing some paperwork while he waits for me.

I wasn’t going to take them honestly, they came in on the dot and Clark was already out the door with Natasha on his heels. I can’t blame them, it was friday night and they were both off tomorrow.

What changed my mind was the dad’s dirty work clothes like he came directly from work, the younger daughters pained expression and the older kid’s school workbook as she was writing in it while walking. She even bumped into the reception desk she was so focused.

So I took them into an exam room and introducing myself the daughters homework caught my eye as she sat down to work on it “What class is that for?”

“Health Sciences,” she answers without looking up “It’s a basic intro to the medical field, right now we’re working on identifying basic long term illnesses and before that common bacterial and viral infections.”

I nod finding it pretty cool they offered classes like that in highschool “Want a little hands on experience?” I ask disregarding the fact it would make this a lot longer.

She looks up at that and stares a little “Uh, yah that’d be awesome,” she says standing up and I motion for her to take the lead with her little sister up on the table.

She lets a nervous laugh out before asking what the problem is to her little sister. She complains about her ear hurting and tugs at it. The older sister nods and asks her if she’s had any headaches, trouble hearing or balancing and a few other symptoms.

After her little sister answers she turns to me and asks if I can take her temperature and look in her ear. I agree with a grin, knowing she’s doing a pretty good job for a teen with zero medical training.

“Her temperature’s thirty-eight point six and the inside of her ear is red and inflamed,” I tell her, tossing the little earpiece in the trash “Diagnosis and recommended treatment?” I ask sitting at the desk.

She smiles shyly “Ear infection, probably AOM so I’d write a prescription but wait a day or two to see if it gets better on it’s own,”

I nod my head “I concur with your diagnosis and treatment,” I say writing out a prescription then getting the door “Keep studying kid you’re headed places,” I say as she walks by.

She beams and practically skips out the door before I lock it for the night.

I head up stairs into the living room, the smell of salmon hitting me as I walk past the grey couch with it’s peculiar pillows and tables with scattered candles and pictures on them to the kitchen.

Adam stands at the white counter mixing a salad, his back to me as I walk up and snake my arms around him. He chuckles but continues mixing as I rest my head on his shoulder, given I have to go up on my toes to do that. I hum into his ear “They’re doing a Midsummer’s Dream tomorrow at the live theatre,”

“Oh?” he says moving the bowl away before turning to face me, letting his hands trail up my sides then back down to my back “That sounds nice.”

I press against him letting my head rest on his chest, the scent of his cologne making me sigh “We should make it a date, and get dressed up for it,” I say nuzzling further into him “Maybe even go out for dinner,”

“Let’s do that,” he says lightly pushing me so he can look at me “Spaghetti Factory for dinner?” he asks, the timer for the fish going off.

I nod and cross the kitchen to grab plates and cutlery, Adam pulling the fish out of the oven. He plates our meals meticulously for fifteen minets as I watch him, my stomach nagging at me to just grab the plate and eat. I push the thought out of my mind because I know Adam loves doing this, as evident by his grin.

We end up eating in the kitchen, me up on a counter and Adam cross legged on the floor, talking about how Romeo and Juliet could have turned out if Romeo had been in love with Tibalt. The conversation eventually lead to us making dick jokes and our sides hurt from laughing too much we couldn’t breathe.

Coming down from our fit of laughter we catch each other's eyes and smile.

“Follow me,” Adam says softly getting to his feet and slipping his hands in mine. I do as he asks, getting down and letting him lead me into the living room bathed in a dusty orange light from the setting sun. He lets my hands go in the middle of the empty floor and walks over to the old record player we have.

Choosing a disc he places the needle on it and a slow jazz song plays as he wraps his arms around my waist and I reach mine up to wrap around his neck. We sway to the music for what feels like hours and I can’t help but believe I’m the happiest man alive.

#original story #gay #cute #fluff #gay fluff #doctor imagine #no plot #original

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roadtophantom · 5 years

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Down Once More - RTP Does a Double Show

(or as they say, a two doe shay - so in that light, this review is hella long)

March 16, 2019

It wasn't planned but to take advantage of a discount, I got a second ticket targeting a Saturday matinee show so I could catch Clara. This plan backfired as I already inadvertently caught her the previous week. Being that the Theatre at Solaire is hours away where I am and I don't want to shell out over a grand for Grab, I decided to see the evening show too.

The fun part about matinees is it's not a rush hour so the travel time is cut significantly. We got to the theatre early enough to take all the photos we want without queueing plus some decent drive thru food. We got balc right seats this time, second row. I certainly missed the prime visibility of orch seats but liked being able to see the whole set.

Clara was on as Christine and I'm delighted to say that as early as a week-gap she's able to put different touches to her Christine so you see a somewhat different interpretation. This one was less afraid and was drawn more to MOTN, that she was able to show a dilemma between the Phantom and Raoul. What I gathered from my first viewing of her was that she's obviously Team Raoul all the way. I mean, sure that is a very valid interpretation but I guess I also like a Christine who is able to show a conflict, some sort of loyalty to her 'teacher' who she didn't just happen to meet yesterday. So there's some joy when she sings AOM.

A notable scene is how she took a while to unmask the Phantom (Jonathan) The instrumentation has already changed and she was still peeling the mask. Jonathan took that extended lull as fuel for anger that Clara cowered in a fetal position as Jonathan, imposing figure that he is, hovered over her. He then punches the floor with his fist and kicked the mandarin hat (which he never got to wore) away. Pretty intense. By STYDI he becomes remorseful as he lamented 'Oh Christine'.

One thing I love about Matt's Raoul is we don't just know he is well to borrow from the Kingsmen: manners maketh man. He isn't only a gentleman at Christine but also to the managers when he makes it a point to excuse himself with a hand gesture when he is switching his attention to Carlotta, Piangi and Girys. And I think one takeaway I got from his Raoul is how he regarded the angel with dismissal and arrogance but slowly come to horror to know that this is a real thing plaguing Christine and that leads him to do what it takes even risk his life. Idk, he's just very real to me. When he does the disaster will be yours, he mounts all his fiery passion to threaten what he knows is larger than him.

Also the travelator worked and he does jump so whee.

Again I adored the ballerinas during the rehearsals because they're just playful girlfriends, when they get excited at the introduction of the Vicomte, when one of them yawns tiredly and someone gets instruction from the slave master, love love these cute dynamics. Plus they are so nice and supportive of Christine. Meg is just a dear, and I love how Kiruna-Lind nods sheepishly with a “I’ll be a good girl cross my heart” smile at her mom before stomping right off.

I finally looked up that lyric change in Notes, it's now using Broadway's: "Mystified baffled Surete say,we are mystified -"

After the show I accompanied my cousin and sister to stage door, whereupon Meghan came in looking like a rockstar, black ensemble, hat on. She's still somewhat ill but she's going on and it's to be appreciated because that means my evening ticket will finally see the other Christine.

My seats these time are way up because I got the cheapest tier. So it was going to be interesting to see Meghan who is probably one of the most petite ladies (she's probably 5 foot and a couple inches). But I immediately see how she compensates for the height with her hands. In Hannibal she grabs on to the nearest ballerina or Meg to seek comfort or to show excitement when the announcement of Vicomte came on, she holds Reyer's hands as he congratulates her. Later in the show she uses them in more heartbreaking ways (to plea for help at Madame Giry at Notes II and the managers after the PONR unmasking but all for naught).

I have to mention this, Meghan does not dance the slave girls track (and later most of the Masquerade track) but this may be because of an injury. Do not take my word for it, but it would make sense why Clara was on instead during the media call. I don't begrudge Meghan too in going off stage especially to protect her health.

BUT when she came on for Think of Me? Holy. Smokes. THAT GLORIOUS VOICE. Where did that come from such a tiny frame? It's so big and whole and powerful and she sings and extends the cadenza effortlessly. You'll know this is opera-trained.

My take with her Christine is that she takes on Meghan's personality, especially in Act I where she is bubbly and friendly with the ballerinas and when she tries to explain to Raoul that the angel of music is very strict (she does it sheepishly). Listening to her radio interviews it makes sense how it sometimes blurs who Meghan is and who Christine is.

She also mentioned how she and the character are utterly consumed by music, and she shows it not just as a trance state but also in a Sarah Brightmanesque possessed state. I want to take a closer look at this because from afar there's a danger of looking like she's doing nothing when she's been doing big gestures with her hands earlier. So it looks like on and off. But maybe up close it's possible she communicates more.

Her strength and her strongest weapon is undoubtedly that voice, because with it she isn't afraid to make the songs her own, to manipulate them as the scene demands for it and as she needs it. Her vocal control is incredible. She is able to communicate fear, panic and passion effortlessly because of that malleable voice that she need not stay the course of the song but give it her interpretation ("in that, <i>strange</i>. sweet. sound.") She could cry and scream in song if that makes sense? I just looooooove listening to her sing and there are just so much dimensions in her interpretation that way. And there's even more to it when she performs with her cast mates.

Okay this brings me to the next part of the review. I saw Jonathan earlier with Clara and it went without a hitch so to speak. In figure-skating speak he landed those lutz. The evening, told a different story. When he couldn't extend his BE in MOTN I started to get worried.

The figure-skating analogy will become very clear towards the rest of the performance as I waited in bated anticipation how he'll try to land his jumps. This was me the whole time basically.

He started stumbling losing breath and ending in rasps towards the end of Act I. Obviously this is not his norm, I've seen him 4 times after all, including the earlier matinee. There was something wrong. But the question now is what he'll do in the vocally demanding AND fast-paced Act II full of quadruple jumps?

Well Jonathan had to do a series of quick decisions, there were words he had to speak more softly, keys that he had to changed and lyrics recited so he can reserve his strength and give them to the money makers. But all in all? Led to a beautiful heart-wrenching performance as he took the show in One Emotional Ride I've never witnessed before. And I believe the person sustaining him, receiving this acting and spinning it to gold? Meghan. There was teamwork happening during the Final Lair as both characters were giving one fiery performance and receiving it, enhancing it, supporting another by giving so much to work with. Meghan comes at you at Final Lair with such fervor. There was a part where she rips the veil so angrily the hair mic went POOF but this is the kind of energy she comes at Jonathan. I don't know if I've seen a Final Lair come like a frenzied hurricane of adrenaline, distress and fury. There were a lot of tears on that stage. Jonathan’s limitations worked for him in the end especially in conveying the anguish of the character. In this way, the show finished in a heart-wrenching note AND thunderous applause.

Oh when Meghan returned the ring, the Phantom clung to her hand and they remained that way for a bit, until Meghan regretably retracted the outstretched arm and left.

So. Um, wow. It was a hell of a ride, and I have to say, guiltily, that I liked how unpredictable it was. That was just pure raw stage energy and thespians are olympians too.

I definitely need to see more of these two before the show closes in close to 2 weeks (cue weeps).

If you got as far as this um, thank you. You are very patient. I have no reward but here's me wearing the PHwhdjfis hoodie

#rtp feels #phantommanila #phantom of the opera #jonathan roxmouth #meghan picerno #clara verdier

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spoopthatdoop · 5 years

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Update!

Hello everyone, i havent been active for the past few days and ive noticed that, i dont want to be inactive but life happens and ive been rather busy for the past few days. Theres been a lot happening and this is just a small post saying it all!

I bought a brand new desk, since i didnt have one before and studying long hours without one is hell; i decided to go out and get one. Well not really, i ordered one online. Its going to take a while to get here but thats okay!

I also bought a lot of atationary for my desk that has already arrived so its just sitting in a box in the corner all lonely.

I decided on what to pursue as a career! Of course ideas and interests change but i feel extremely confident in this one. 'This one' being psychology! And as if fate put it there, i have been already doing pre requisite corses for the degree!

Because of this interest i went out and bought a book on psychology for a bit of a head start in what to expect. I cant remember what its called but it was recommended to me, once it arrives ill be sure to post a picture and keep you guys in track with it just in case you too want to study psychology and need a starting point.

Also, i know ive been studying hard lately and i have been flying through course workout. This hard work needed some type of reward (not really). So i went out and bought a small crafty project i have always been dying to get into and that is sculpting! I will probably be terrible at it at first but ill get there. I bought all the needs for it and im thinking of making a doll for my first small project!

I bought a white board! And thats probably the smartest thing i have done yet, i underestimated just how easier it would be to work with one and now i have a mind map sketched out on it for an upcoming essay.

Alongside the whiteboard i finally got around to drawing up an academic calender of this semester. Because i juggle a few classes its good to have a visual on 'what am i doing tomorrow?' Something i highly recommend on doing!

So there you have it guys, thats what ive gotten up to in the past few days. Oh! And this picture is a book recommendation, i said in my last post ill start throwing aome recommendations up and here it is. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. I cannot fathom and express just how great his writing is! He is extremely descriptive to the point you feel like you are there. I highly recommend giving this a read if you havent already!

#blog post #daily blog #blogger #studyblr #study motivation #studyspiration #study #studylife

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art-of-manliness · 5 years

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Podcast #497: The Meaning, Manifestations, and Treatments for Anxiety

According to recent statistics, the number of Americans dealing with anxiety disorders is over 40 million and that number is increasing. My guest today is one of those Americans who’s suffered from bouts of anxiety all of his life. He’s also a successful journalist. So he decided to use his journalistic chops to explore the history of anxiety and how we treat it in the hopes he could gain more insight about the mental disorder that has plagued him since his youth. His name is Scott Stossel. He’s an editor at The Atlantic and the author of My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. We begin our conversation discussing Scott’s experience with anxiety that began as a child, what anxiety feels like, and how he’s treated it throughout his life. We then dig into the history of anxiety, looking at how it’s been viewed differently through time, and at what point psychologists classified it as a mental disorder. Scott then walks us through the different theories about what causes anxiety and what the research says about the best ways to treat it. We end our conversation discussing the state of Scott’s anxiety today and whether he thinks he’ll ever be cured. Show Highlights * Scott’s lifelong experience with anxiety * The benefits and usefulness of anxiety * Society’s general increase of anxiousness, and why this is happening * How did anxiety used to be diagnosed and treated? * The arbitrary diagnosing of anxiety disorders * Genetics vs. environment vs. culture in causing anxiousness * What can we do to boost our resilience and resistance to anxiety? * The pros and cons of therapy, drugs, and other treatments * The power of regular exercise * Can anxiety really ever be cured? Resources/People/Articles Mentioned in Podcast * AoM series on Male Depression * How to Deal With Anxiety * Agoraphobia * Our podcast with Lenore Skenazy about free-range parenting * AoM series on Overprotective Parenting * Modern “Neurasthenia”: Curing Your Restlessness * Are Modern People the Most Exhausted in History? * A Simple Cure for Restlessness * Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity * Action Over Feelings * Neuropeptide Y * Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics * National Alliance on Mental Illness * Anxiety and Depression Association of America Connect With Scott Scott’s website Scott on Twitter Listen to the Podcast! (And don’t forget to leave us a review!) Listen to the episode on a separate page. Download this episode. Subscribe to the podcast in the media player of your choice. Recorded on ClearCast.io Podcast Sponsors Vrbo. Struggling to find the perfect vacation home? You need Vrbo. They do the hard work for you — matching you to the perfect place to stay, every time. From condos to cabins, places with yards, grills or hot tubs, they’ve got it all. Search “Vrbo” in the app store to download the app today. Ten Thousand Short. Your new workout shorts. From cross-training, to running, to weightlifting, these shorts can do anything. Four-way stretch means you’ll be comfortable, no matter what you’re doing. Try a pair for free for 30 days by visiting tenthousand.cc/aom. On Running. These shoes are so comfortable you won’t want to take them off. And they have a full range of shoes and apparel to power your full day, on and off the trail. Try a pair for 30 days by going to on-running.com/manliness. Click here to see a full list of our podcast sponsors. Read the Transcript Coming soon! The post Podcast #497: The Meaning, Manifestations, and Treatments for Anxiety appeared first on The Art of Manliness. http://dlvr.it/R2QNVF

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Battle for mewni MUST READ original

I just fell in love with the whole starco madness…and i just thought of one of those episodes or comics that give you waves of feels and tear your eyes bruv… *Fallen Stars* marco has been captured (again) but this time by ludo who has gone mad with power thanks to his new wand. While everyone is fighting back at the butterfly castle marco is taken by rats back to ludos holdout… There he is imprisoned and beaten as he will be used stop star if she ever reaches ludo back at his castle.

Star and ludo fight it out once she finally arrives ; star hoping her family and friends will be victorious at the battle for mewni to join her at ludo’s castle to help out. Marco bieng quite intelligent maneges to untie himself and ludo turns into toffee and hits star with a powerfull blast… Star is weak and bruised up and has a little blood coming out of her mouth and holds her abdomen moaning in pain… She gets ups and looks at marco still strugglung to set himself free

*toffee*- ahhh ms. Butterfly you can’t save him and you know it as soon as he is free i will be forced to kill him and make you watch him perish…

Star looks at marco one more time and says to him -maaaAAARCOO!! Look im sorry for leaving you on earth and I’m sorry what i have to do… *marco*- eh eh eh Star you dont have to apologize you alrea… Wait for what you are going to do? Star what are you thin… *realization hits marco* *marco shouts* STAR NO DONT D… *star casts a powerful spell from the dark side of her spell book…one she can’t come back from* *Marco sets free and stands up yelling* STAR PLEASE DONT DO IT …*marco looks down as she continues to cast her spell and ludo’s castle starts shaking *marco*- I…I… I love you star…I…love you… Star looks at him ready to emit her powerful blast… *star* -i love you to marco… (Scene cuts to moon and others fighting rats sith a view to ludo’s castle. ) *HUGE EXPLOSION* (Then another quick scene glipmse of a flash and a huge explosion towards ludo’s castle… *moon gasps*- star…

*blast levels the castle and toffee emerges from debris* *brushes off debris and dust off of himself* *marco gets unstuck from rubble and dusts off* * marco frantically looks around* *Marco* - STAR! Star where are you?!STAAAAR?! *toffee adresses him from a short distance* *toffee*- foolish boy ,star just tried to blow herself up in effort to do so to me…and look for yourself unscathed…*laughs* *marco runs through debris looking for star like a mad man and spots the crater of the blast a few meters away from him and realises the crater is nearlg 30 feet deep*

*marco runs to the edge of the crater looks down and sees star badly injured and slides dosn the slope of the crater and reaches the bottom* *marco starts tearing up* *marco*- STAR! Oh no STAR NO PLEASE NOT YOU! *toffee reaches the edge of the crater with a grin and shouts at marco* *toffee*- look what she’s done for you…well its not much but such a valiant effort to save her lover and look at her…defeated…just like you’ll be in a few moments…*proceeds to laugh again* *marco still holding star in his arms* *takes of his battle worn red hoodie and wraps it around her and picks her up* *toffee gives marco a confused look* *toffee*- what are you doing boy? If she hasn’t perished yet, you’ll just die with her what’s the point in fighting anymore? You’ve lost…* raises his hamd and starts casting a power blast to end marco and star once and for all* *marco finally reaches the top if the crater with star in his arms refusing to give up and lays her down on an overturned archway still wrapped in Marco’s hoodie* * marco pushes aside some hair in star’s face and removes a little of rocks and dust off of one of hearts on her cheek* *gives star a kiss* *marco picks up stars wand* *toffee gets closer to him pointing to star with his hand lit up with the blast spell* *toffee* marco,marco,marco… Its dumb to even fight she will die and so will you JUST FACE IT!… There is not a thing you can do…you are iust a mere earth boy , what are you going to to with that wand? You know nothing of magic…* laughs*

*marco looking at the wand* *toffee give marco an annoyed look*

*marco dusts off wand and starts murmuring* *toffee loses his patience* *toffee* ENOUGH OF THIS! * toffee aoms at star and fires* *BOOOM* *clouds of dust surround star implying she was blwon to smithereens* * reveals a shield protecting injured star* *toffee* what?! How can this be?!* looks at marco and shoots at him out of anger* * marco deflects the blast and toffee is angered and shoots more blasts at him* *marco raises the wand and shoots back at toffee* *toffee takes a slight hit but shoves is off* * moon and others finally reach ludo’s castle only to find marco fighting toffee* * marco takes a power blasts that penetrated through the shield protecting him, leaving a huge bruise and burn mark to his mid abdomen and his heart area*

* marco kneels out of weakness spitting out blood* *toffee only has a few scratches and bruises and adresses marco* *toffee*- hahahaha you moron you thought you could stop me?! after i kill you ill kill star…easy…*laughs diabolicaly* *marco stands up weakly* *marco*- you…will…NOT HURT STAR! *marco emits a deadly blasts throwing back towards star and killing toffee returning him to his ludo state* *moon and others rush to help him and star* * marco barely stands up and falls down a couple time but manages to head over to star, picks her up and walks towards moon past debris and ruins* *star wakes up in marco’s arms and weakly asks him what happened* *marco ignores and continues walking finally reaching moon* *moon tries to speak but marco cuts her off as everyone looks at star and him* * he kisses her on the forehead and she grins and laughs a bit but immediately her pain returns* * marco hamds over star to moon and moon looks back at marco limping away from then* * star gets up with the help of moon and yells at marco* *star*- marco*cough cough* where are you going? *marco looks back slowly smiles and says*- I love you star dont you forget that… *star looks extremely confused and adresses marco* *star*- marco? What are you…? *marco falls to the ground lifelessly* everyone rushes to him and moin helos star get there* *Star pushes him trying to wake him up crying* *glossaryk comes through crowd and holds marco’s wrist and frowns slowly* *Glossaryk*- I’m…I’m sorry Star…he’s…gone… *star start crying* *star picks him up and other help* *star sobs* they brush off debris off him and clean up bloid on his chest and abdomen* *glossaryk*- his human body couldnt take another blast star…his heart ate most of the first couple blasts and took a beating…and well his heart gave up* *star looks at huge burn mark on marocs body near his heart and other vital organs…* Star picks up her broken wand and grabs her mothers and casts a cloud spell to carry marco on* * star puts marco on the cloud and lays next to gim hugging him crying and kissing his cheek, she held his arn tight and sobbed on his arm…

They slowly walk towards whats left of mewni together carrying marco and star…

-THE END

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the criticism levelled towards AoM was pretty fuckin consistent so if V have any sense -- which ill assume they do, theyre a company that wants to make money after all -- theyre going to have to take some of that on board or its going to really fuck up their reputation. SRIV did good (but not as good as SR3) but GOoH was a critical flop and AoM was critically and financially disappointing. theyve been constantly and consistently talking about how GOoH led to a kind of split universe where theres multiple endings they could follow, one of which being AoM. i dont think theyd be so insistent on the idea they could more than one thing with the franchise if they didnt intend on doing multiple, different things with the franchise.

V havent had a real banger release since 2013 and with AoM absolutely not being a successful enough vehicle on its own terms to franchise, theres a lot of pressure on them to come out with something good right now. im very sure the next game they release is gonna be a Saints Row game because they need to remind people what they loved about the franchise, but what exactly it is i cant say. AoM relied a lot on selling itself by having familiar fan favourites, but that didnt actually work and at this point my gut instinct is that theyre probably not going to try that again. i would not be surprised if the next Saints Row game was a complete hard reset with an entirely new cast in a totally new location.

i also dont think its going to have a huge number of super powers and shit because again, they just did that, and it didnt work. it kind of worked once but they havent been able to recapture that magic and it would foolish to keep pushing it when it hasnt been working out.

so yeah. i think its way too early to make any solid guesses about what we’re getting, but my instinct atm is that V are going to hard swerve away from AoM because that direction isnt working out. they have to listen to critics and they have to listen to fans. i dont know how much impact the Nordic buyout is going to have, if any, but we’ll see. but V are going to be in trouble if they dont mix things up and i think they know it.

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Podcast #497: The Meaning, Manifestations, and Treatments for Anxiety

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Podcast #497: The Meaning, Manifestations, and Treatments for Anxiety

According to recent statistics, the number of Americans dealing with anxiety ailments is over 40 million and that number is increasing. My guest today is one of those Americans who’s suffered from bouts of nervousnes all of his life. He’s also a successful journalist. So he decided to use his journalistic chops to explore the history of anxiety and how we treat it in the hopes he could gain more insight about the mental disorder that has beset him since his youth.

His name is Scott Stossel. He’s an editor at The Atlantic and the author of My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. We begin our conversation discussing Scott’s experience with anxiety that began as a child, what nervousnes may seem like, and how he’s treated it throughout their own lives. We then dig into the history of anxiety, looking at how it’s been viewed differently through time, and at what phase psychologists classified it as a mental disorder. Scott then strolls us through the differences between hypothesis about what causes anxiety and what the research says about the best ways to treat it. We aim our conversation discussing the nation of Scott’s anxiety today and whether he thinks he’ll ever be cured.

Show Highlights Scott’s lifelong experience with anxiety The benefits and usefulness of anxiety Society’s general increase of anxiousness, and why this happens How did nervousnes used to be diagnosed and treated? The arbitrary diagnosing of nervousnes ailments Genetics vs. environment vs. culture in induce anxiousness What can we do to boost our resilience and resistance to anxiety? The pros and cons of therapy, drugs, and other therapies The power of regular exert Can anxiety truly ever be cured? Resources/People/Articles Mentioned in Podcast AoM series on Male Depression How to Deal With Anxiety Agoraphobia Our podcast with Lenore Skenazy about free-range parenting AoM series on Overprotective Parenting Modern “Neurasthenia”: Curing Your Restlessness Are Modern People the Most Exhausted in History ? A Simple Cure for Restlessness Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity Action Over Feelings Neuropeptide Y Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics National Alliance on Mental Illness Anxiety and Depression Association of America

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Brett McKay: Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of The Art of Manliness Podcast. According to recent statistics, the number of Americans dealing with anxiety ailments is over 40 million, and that number is increasing. My guest today is one of those Americans who suffered from bouts of anxiety all of his life. He is also a successful journalists. So, we decided to use his journalistic chops to explore the history of anxiety and how we treat it in the hoax he had been able to gain more insight and about the mental disorder that has beset him since his youth.

His name is Scott Stossel. He’s an editor at the Atlantic and the author of My Age Of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread And The Search For Peace Of Mind. We begin our conversation discussing Scott’s experience with anxiety that began as a child. What anxiety may seem like and how he’s treated it throughout their own lives. We then dig into the history of anxiety looking at how its been viewed differently through time and at what point psychologists classified it as a mental disorder. Scott then walks us through the differences between theories about what causes anxiety and what the research says about the best ways to treat it.

We end our conversation discussing the country of Scott’s anxiety today. Whether he thinks he will ever be cured. After the show’s over, check out our prove notes at aom.is/ ageofanxiety. Scott joins me now via clearcast.io.

Right, Scott Stossel, welcome to the show.

Scott Stossel: Thanks so much for having me.

Brett McKay: You wrote a book, My Age Of Anxiety, which is a cultural history, scientific history of nervousnes. Which is something a lot more Americans are struggling with, they’re reporting struggling with. But not only is this a history, it’s a narrative of your own struggle with anxiety throughout your life. Let’s start there. How long have you been struggling and dealing with anxiety?

Scott Stossel: Its candidly been pretty much a lifelong struggle from a very young age. The earliest I can recollect, I had terrible acute separation anxiety when I was a little kid. Any time I was away from my parents, I was convinced that they were dead or died in a automobile accident or that they were actually robots and I was part of some experiment. By the time I got to school, I would have anxious stomach aches and anxious headaches and I would always end up in the nurse’s office. I would fret endlessly about all kinds of things.

So, genuinely from the time I was … My earliest memories, I remember being worried about things. I have, I think a temperamental propensity towards nervousnes and worry that showed itself at a very, very young age.

Brett McKay: Did it manifest itself differently over the years as you got older.

Scott Stossel: Yeah, the separation anxiety and that’s a classic early manifestation of people who grew up to develop what you clinically called anxiety ailments. But over time, I developed specific phobiums; dread of heights, anxiety of enclosed spaces, fear of cheese and anxiety of vomiting, dread of flying, which was a fairly acute one that still plagues me today.

I also, as I get older, started having panic attacks, which anyone who’s experienced them knows are often when they recur with any frequency over a given period, that becomes clinically known as panic disorder. I had that. When I got to middle school and high school, I had all kinds of social anxiety where I worry about interacting with other people, particularly performing in public. I was in the school play in sixth grade, it was humiliating, I had to walk off stage because I lost the ability to speak.

And then I carried all that with me into adulthood, basically these anxieties were regrettably added if not substituting. I wasn’t switching one for the other. Just every time I got a new anxiety, I would just add that to the ones I already had. By the time I got to high school and then young adulthood, I was not all the time but pretty constantly struggling with some collection of anxieties about going to school, traveling, getting sick, dealing with other people.

The strain of dealing with that would lead to depression. It was a fairly toxic stew of negative feelings I was dealing with by the time I was a young adult.

Brett McKay: Right, one two punch. I imagine, we’ll talk about you’re still working with this stuff today. But you’re a writer for The Atlantic. You’re a public figure. Is it still something you struggle with? The fact that “youve got to” do speaking involvements or things like that, is that something you have to manage as well?

Scott Stossel: It is. I’m what they call … I’m a high functioning person with nervousnes ailment. There’s some people who get so anxious that they’re what’s called agoraphobia, where their panic disorder gets so bad that the range of things they can do gets smaller and smaller. Eventually, they are people who are confined to their houses or even be restricted to one room in their house and can’t do anything for years at a time.

I’ve had periods like that, fortunately, short periods where I could feel the world closing in on me. But for the best part, with a combination of medication, other kinds of therapy, and just force of will sometimes, mostly managed to live a normal life and have a career.

There are ways in which, and I talk about this in the book in which anxiety has its benefits or at least it’s connected to temperamental traits that are good. If you’re super anxious about things, you’re kind of hyper vigilant, which builds you good at scanning the environment and being aware of your social situations or being able to read social cues. People with social nervousnes probably over read them, but it can be a useful skill. Your worrying a lot can be debilitating if it’s excessive, but it also helps you to plan for different eventualities. You can look ahead.

I think that only the struggles I’ve had with my mental health have stimulated me more empathetic towards other people have those conflicts and even to people who don’t have those conflicts. I think it helps with communication. There are a lot of ways in which even though I dislike my anxiety when it’s flaring up, it’s probably propelled me along, its stimulated me conscientious because I’m afraid of screwing up, I’m afraid of appear bad. That becomes a motivator.

A lot of times I feel like I’m patched together or scarcely holding it together because my anxiety is so bad or, I’m pharmaceutically armored against my anxiety. That’s how I’ve struggled through, and I still struggle with it today a lot. We can talk about that more later if you want. But I’ve been fortunate enough to manage to, mostly be a productive member of society.

Brett McKay: Well, this volume came out 2014. It’s been five years. You’re seeing all these reports come out week after week about how Americans, especially young Americans and young Westerners in general, are increasingly feeling like they’re anxious or they’re suffering from anxiety. What are the numbers? How many Americans do we know are reporting being anxious?

Scott Stossel: They’re really high. There was a study a couple, before my volume came out, some years ago that talked about how the average level of nervousnes for a typical high school student now self-rated report on anxiety is the same as it was for inpatient psychiatric patients in the 1950 s. Basically, the average kid today is as anxious and neurotic and miserable as people who are in psychiatric hospitals a couple of generations ago. Then there’s all kinds of other statistics that just show levels of stress, worry, nervousnes, nervousnes disorder diagnosis, are much, much higher in young people pretty much across all Western countries. Particularly, there’s a lot of data about Europe and the United States.

In the US, I suppose, there’s so much data that this is something real. I guess part of it is our definitions of what constitutes a clinical anxiety ailment have expanded and become a little bit more elastic. Probably can be know more about these disorders so people now can identify them partly because you’ve got now medications that have been approved to treat them. You’ve got the marketing imperatives of the narcotic companies. The more broadly you can define an nervousnes ailment, the more people you have that you’re able to prescribe it to.

Partly, this is inflation of a diagnostic category. I think in any society, there’s some complement of people who will be anxious under many circumstances. But I also think that there are a lot of factors about the culture in the society right now that are driving people, and especially young people to be more anxious. At the largest societal level, we’re in a long period really going all the way back to the dawn of the industrial revolution, but accelerating now in the internet age, of simply rapid alter, economic dislocation, all forms of transitions. There’s merely a pace of life because of the internet. The route people select themselves into tribes, set the pressure to create your own personal brand on the internet. There’s just so many countervailing pressures that confound young person about what their identity is.

In centuries past, you were born into your role. Your family had a status in the tribe or in the medieval village you lived in or even in your farm village in the 19 th century America. Now, who are you? You can choose your gender, you can choose your sexual preference, you can choose the groups you affiliate with socially. All this creates a lot of stress. And then the last factor I was just saying, is just there’s been a lot written about this, particular people in the millennial generation and younger, there’s so much helicopter parenting. Your mothers are super involved and driven and trying to make their kids succeed.

But the combination of overprotectiveness and pressure to achieve is really toxic, because on the one hand, these kids feel all this pressure to succeed and do better than their parents and get into good colleges or do whatever. At the same time, the parents are doing things for them that parents of previous generations wouldn’t. It robs them of their impression of freedom and resilience. It’s genuinely an epidemic thing. I’ve talked to a lot of psychiatrists both for the book but then also people I’ve come to know who are now friends who are psychiatrists, who are therapists and they see this as merely an epidemic phenomenon. All those factors combined to create soaring levels of anxiety.

Brett McKay: Let’s talk, you mentioned there’s a cultural component to anxiety. It’s not that anxiety is a culture construct. That it exists, it rooted in biology, but the culture has an influence. For example, the diagnostic of anxiety ailment didn’t exist 35 years ago. I’m older than that, I’m 37. How old am I? 36. I forget how old … At some point you stop counting how old you are.

Scott Stossel: That’s right, because of a defense mechanism.

Brett McKay: Right? But that doesn’t mean that people weren’t anxious. What did we call anxiety say like 2,000 years ago, or 100 years ago or even 50 years ago?

Scott Stossel: Good question. Its been called all different things. Obviously, the emotion that we feel, or the situate of emotional and physical experiences “youve got in” your body when you are feeling what we now call anxiety, humans have experienced since they were humen. What did they call it in[ inaudible] days when they were cavemen? They didn’t have a concept of anxiety, but when they went out of the cave and they were worried about getting eaten by a saber tooth tiger, their own problems would sweat, their hair would stand on end, their stomaches would hurt. That is anxiety.

Even in animals, the fight or flight response is a sort of evolutionary program instinct to help keep species alive. What we call anxiety today emanates from that deeply rooted evolutionary, biological reality. But over the years different cultures have and science has called it all kinds of different things. For many years, the Renaissance, they would group what we now call anxiety and depression together under melancholy. If you suffer from what, you’re worried about things, or you were depressed, your were called melancholy.

Once you get into the 19 th century, in Europe and America, they would call it asthenia. It was meant to simply a set of traits that was a combination of physical things. It could be like dizziness, sweats, gastrointestinal problems and emotional things; phobias, worry, basically could encompass anything because your nervousness, you experience it in your brain, but it has impact throughout your body.

Getting into the Freudian age, Freud became very influential through the 20 th century, particularly into the mid-2 0th century. He talked about what we today call anxiety as neurosis. He had a different hypothesi of what caused it; childhood sex, repressed sexual desire, conflicts with your mothers, the edible complex, which a lot of which has been debunked now. But as a culture idiom, the idea of neuroses became very prominent in the culture. That was through World War II, up until 1980 when the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which is the Bible of the psychiatric profession, they redefined the neurosis as anxiety.

Technically, anxiety disorders didn’t exist when you were born and they didn’t exist when I was a little kid. I’m 49 now. For the first 10 years of my life when I was starting to get taken to psychiatrists, they would say I have childhood neurosis or something like that. It’s now been redefined as anxiety. The labels we put on this do inflect how we think about them and how we treat them. But it is the same underlying define of you and I or if I think of myself, I would be feeling the same set of unpleasant thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, whatever age I was in, and whatever we choose to call it. Just now we classify them as nervousnes disorders.

Brett McKay: Right? The route we describe and the way we talk about it has changed. For example, within the Renaissance, melancholia, yeah, you were considered depressed and anxious. But it was romantic too. It was like, well, you’re simply ponderous, romantic person who’s thinking about big believes. It was a positive spin on it. But then Freud saying, “No, neurosis is bad. We got to solve your neurosis by sitting on a couch and talking to a therapist over and over again until you solve it.”

There’s that swinging backward and forward. Yeah, there’s some good and bad, but then it’s all bad.

Scott Stossel: Yeah. There’s often been, you referenced the Renaissance era, this sense that having melancholy is attached to having an artistic or refined or sophisticated sensibility. It was actually seemed to be a desirable trait. If you were melancholic, it meant you were creative and artistic and must be very smart. Sometimes, there are, and this is contested among actual experts about whether is there a link between mental illness of various kinds, including nervousnes and depression and ingenuity. So many famous writers, for instance, and artists have had very prominent psychiatric ailments or alcoholism or things like that. Is there us-led coalition forces between the things that stimulate you anxious and depressed and the things that give you an artistic sensibility?

Maybe there’s, like I say, different people dispute that. You’re right, that the culture interpreting we put on anxiety alters. One thing in particular, as a man, that this has been changed recently, but there’s a lot of shame associated with is anxiety cowardice? And cowardice is shameful. There’s almost no worse epithet you can swing at a human than being a coward or whatever.

But suppressing this stuff or not treating it can be very dangerous. Instead of going to a therapist, a lot of people turn to alcohol or narcotics and basically try to manage their nervousnes in very unhealthy routes, that can be quite dangerous.

Brett McKay: We’ll get into that a bit more because I’d like to talk about stuff like Navy SEALS and neuro peptide wide and whatever. But talking about the current diagnosis of anxiety, I thought it was interesting, you explore the DSM and how they came up with it. We talked about some other people and we talked about depression. How a lot of this stuff, it’s ad hoc. There was just threw spaghetti at the wall, or sometimes there’s dinners, and they’re like, “Well, here’s the five things that we think that you can use to diagnose anxiety.” It often seems very arbitrary sometimes.

Scott Stossel: It’s often completely arbitrary. I was fascinated when doing research for this book and hearing some of these there is talk. The people who did a previous edition of the DSM, every 10 or 20, 30 years, they reissue a new one. When they introduced all the anxiety disorders for the first time, that was in 1980, with the DSM three, the third edition. Yeah, I would hear from people who are part of the committee that came up with the categories. They’d be sitting around and they would have come up with a definition for panic disorder. But even that was arbitrary. They’d say, “Well, it’s if you have six … ” I’m trying to remember. If you have X number of panic attacks over a period of six months, well, then you have panic disorder. Well, why did they choice six months instead of a year or two months? And why X number of panic attacks instead of why?

The more interesting one was then they were talking about, well, we’ve got all these different kinds of anxieties categorized into discrete disorders. You’ve got phobias, which is fear of specific things, you’ve get social anxiety, which is fear of social situations. We’ve got panic disorder, which is panic attacks. We’ve got OCD, which is obsessive compulsive ailment. They’re at this dinner, they’re like, well, what about our colleague Joe? He’s just generally anxious. They’re like, oh, well, let’s come up with something called generalized anxiety disorder.

They was also expressed that into the third edition of the DSM. Then once it exists as a real category, then researchers and drug companies start to treat it as a real thing. And they do analyzes based on the sets of symptoms that you’re supposed to have, to be characterized with that cancer. It starts to become certified into you’re testing for a thing that you made up in the first place.

Again , not that the underlying suffering is not real and not there, but is generalized anxiety disorder truly its own separate ailment, or is it, as some people now think, merely a subset of depression, or depression with anxiety, or people who are depressed often worry a lot and get sucked up into their head? Well, that’s what people with generalized anxiety disorder do. They simply worry continuously and spin in circles in their head.

Being very anxious can be depressing. No wonder that nervousnes and depression are so often co-occur in people. And then many people with depression experience nervousnes. It’s unclear how these things actually … In the DSM, they’re very neatly cleaved from one another. This disorder is distinct from that disorder. A lot of people are now starting to think maybe, especially as they start to look at the neuroscience of this, which is still in early stages, but perhaps this is all variants of the same thing. I imagine, 100 years from now, when scientists look back, they may think that our categorizations of these things are pretty crude, but they’re very good we have right now.

Brett McKay: It’s like when we think about how people talk about[ inaudible] that was various kinds of silly.

Scott Stossel: Or hysteria. Hysteria was particularly for women. But there was some … What was that? Was that a culture phenomenon? Was it a medical phenomenon? It was both, and these things always intersect. That’s always interesting to me, when you have a real biological thing that gets interpreted culturally, that’s fascinating and really does alteration how we treat and think about people who have these disorders.

Brett McKay: I imagine that it can cause a lot of confusion and annoyance for people struggling with it. They’re going to help and they’re getting inconsistent diagnosis from different … One therapist is like, well, you have this, but not this to this. It’s like, well, what am I? What am I supposed to be doing with what I … How much to go after what I have?

Scott Stossel: Yeah, when my book came out, I had a lot of people say that or versions of that, that they struggled a lot. But in general, I would say, most therapists, there’s a lot of agreement, and it may change, but there are certain things that there’s emerging data about what works for all these things, or many of these things. For instance, there’s a sort of therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy, which is basically a combination of helping people to change their guess to build them less maladaptive. Break the cycle of negative thinking and reality test a better route. People are worried about things who have generalized anxiety disorder, they always ensure the worst case scenario. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you restructure your way of thinking so you can see things in a more realistic way. And then help you change your behavior and uncovering yourself to the things, if you have anxiety, uncovering yourself to the things you’re afraid to decondition you from the fear.

There’s a lot of evidence over now, more than a decade, that that kind of therapy can work for all kinds of anxiety disorder, from obsessive compulsive disorder, for depression. There are things that work. There are certain medications. Medication, when we talk about that, that’s all complex to where my sense is, your drugs can work, but there is a great mystery about how they run, when they work, who they work for, what the downsides are. But there are some studies and a lot of evidence to suggest that for some people, certain medications can help them with their anxiety and depression.

Even though we’re still groping around for proper definitions and everything is categories and are messy. There are things that are generally believed to work.

Brett McKay: We’ll talk about medications, that’s interesting as well. Again, it’s like how we define and diagnose anxiety. A plenty of the drug developed were very ad hoc, and we’ll talk about it, because it’s really interesting as well. But let’s talk about, what causes anxiety? Because some people will look at it, “Well, it’s like a choice. You can only snap out of it. Get yourself together.” But there’s also evidence that says no, there’s a genetic component to it.” What’s going on? What causes anxiety?

Scott Stossel: There are multiple causes. But there’s tons of proof, there’s a strong genetic component. Only about everybody has some adaptive predisposition to experience, have a fight or flight response to have a fear response. But there are some people, who because of their genes, are born with what psychologists call it, temperament that is more highly reactive.

It’s literally, that their DNA and codes for a physiology that is more high reactive. Those people … You can see it in newborns. You can often tell the ones that are going to grow up to have anxiety ailments because they have more exaggerated, what’s called startle responses. If you make a loud noise or flashing a light at them, you can see their heart rate increases more, or they sweat more, they have electric conductance in their skin is greater. It literally is, it’s something that you can’t control it, it’s profoundly, profoundly wired in and scientists are starting to look at the various clusters of genes that lead to that.

Some people are just born with a ready predisposition to be anxious. But then on top of that, there’s the environmental factor. There’s also tons of evidence that, and this is where Freud was wrong, early childhood experiences have a profound impact on your psychology and your mental resilience, psychological resilience for the rest of your life.

So, people, kids, and adults who are exposed to trauma, it changes your brain chemistry and even your brain structure in such a way that this is what PTSD is. You’re now much more prone to anxiety and depression, panic attack. It’s a gene environment interaction. There are some people who are born with such an anxious predisposition that even small stressors are going to send them into spiraling nervousnes or depression and stimulate them develop a disorder. There are other people who are going to be much more resistant to it, but even those people, most of them, or many of them anyway, if exposed to enough trauma; war or something horrific in childhood will develop the elements of an anxiety disorder.

Then overlaid on top of that, as we were talking about earlier, there are the cultural and social level stuff, are there certain cultures or periods of history that are more anxiety make than others? I guess the evidence suggests that there are. But I suppose the strongest contributor by far is your jeans. Some people only have the calamity to be born highly anxious, and some people who are born more serene. But as with all human traits, then surrounding plays a role too.

Brett McKay: Yeah, well, you talked about even your own family anxiety seems to run in your family.

Scott Stossel: Yeah. When I was both in my therapy, but as I was researching the book, I was trying to figure out, well, what is the source of my own nervousnes? My mom, super high warrior, had a lot of phobias, which I got from her, that I get them from her by watching her because I learned them from her from environmental or is it genetically encoded. Then her parents both had worrying personality traits. Her grandfather, my great grandpa, had fought awfully with what they then called anxiety neurosis. Was institutionalized in psychiatric hospitals many times.

Again, he had a very successful career. Was a smart, accomplished guy, but that would just get wholly incapacitated by his anxiety, would have to go to the mental hospital and get electroshock therapy to get his brain reset. I’ve got other relatives who struggle with this. Studies show that once you have some number of anxious people in a family, you’ll find many many more. Is that transmitted by environment? Did I learn it from my mom, from watching my mama, from watching my grandparents? Maybe, or was it transmitted through my genes? Well, probably that too and you can never totally disentangle them.

Brett McKay: Well, you’re going back to that notion that you brought up that for men anxiety can be like a slap in the face because if you have it, you’re a coward. But we were talking about Navy SEALs. Some people are born with a predisposition to be very anxious, but some are born like they’re just water off a duck’s back. Navy SEALS, they’ve done research on them where they found they actually have a genetic predisposition to be hyper resilient, even in super stressful situations.

Scott Stossel: Exactly. I was fascinated by that analyse. Navy SEALs are a really interesting study because they’re such extreme human specimen. To get to the point where you get through Navy SEAL training, it’s like you must be incredibly physically fit. Then they put you through these physical adversities, like sleep deprivation and incredible hardship.

The physical component is hard enough, but these guys, they’re able to withstand almost a form of torture, that would cause me or many other people to only break down. There’s a guy at Yale who was studying, what is it that stimulates these guys so resilient. He would take, I think it was from their blood samples, measuring different neurotransmitters in their brain. He found that the Navy SEALs who succeeded in do the Navy SEAL training, had unusually high levels of something called neuro peptide Y. Basically, if you have a high level of … They could actually predict in advance to try to determine cause and effect. Finishing the course gives you a boost of confidence or something that causes your neuro peptide Y to rise or do you have a natural baseline level of it?

When they looked at these people in advance, they could nearly predict how they would do on the test by their levels of neuro peptide Y in advance. And there are other studies that show that neuro peptide Y, your levels of that are genetically ascertained, or at the least partly genetically ascertained. Which to me is powerful evidence that your level of psychological resilience is conferred by your genes, which allows you to produce this neurotransmitter that builds you unusually psychologically resilient. But what psychologists are now truly interested in studying and in the military too is, how can you cultivate this in non-genetic routes? Many of us would benefit from being more resilient?

There things that we can do through therapy or through life experiences that boost our levels of neuro peptide Y, or that create the psychological structures in our head that are associated with neuro peptide Y and that induce us resilient and resistant to anxiety, traumatic stress, that kind of thing. It’s truly promising region of research. It’s basically focusing on the people who are the least anxious and figure out, how can we use what they have going for them both in terms of how they think and what’s in their brain to treat people who are particularly non-resilient or highly anxious?

Brett McKay: Well, let’s talk about the history of treating anxiety. You mentioned earlier, right now, there’s a lot of promising research, and studies have shown that cognitive behavior therapy can help mitigate or help people manage their anxiety. But besides that, what are some of the other routes as far as therapy goes, and we’ve used to try to treat anxiety disorders?

Scott Stossel: Well, so these days, there’s cognitive behavioral therapy. There’s more traditional talk therapy. CBT is a form of talk therapy. Bu[ inaudible] when “youre thinking about” from the movies, which is just talking to a psychiatrist, or psychologist or a social worker, or a therapist or some other kind of psychodynamic therapy that’s called. There’s a lot of evidence that simply, talking to someone who listens sympathetically to your problems, has some training, both helping you solve basic life challenges, but also helping you resolve childhood issues. There’s some evidence that that works.

Then there’s medication. Going back, really millennia, if you read the ancient Greeks or even Hippocrates, the most original, most famous doctor in history, talks about how wine can treat nervousnes. For years people have been using alcohol and opium and things like that to medicate anxiety.

Just going back 100 and some years, there have been waves of different things that have been used to treat particular anxiety and then anxiety and depression. Way back at the turn of the 20 th century, you had barbiturates and other sedatives that were used to treat anxiety. Then around mid-century, you had the sunrise of what are called the benzodiazepines. That’s valium and librium and these days you have Klonopin, Xanax,[ inaudible] even Ambien that work on your define of neuro transmitters in your brain called GABA that basically soothes your brain down. That can be very effective in treating anxiety, but very dangerous too in terms of it’s addictive potential and the tendency to sort habit and dependency.

For depression, there have been different waves of drugs. There was the wave of what they called the tricyclic antidepressants. Tricyclic describes the structure of the molecule. These were things like[ inaudible 00:30: 18 ]. Then in the ’8 0s, you had the first, what’s called the SSRI, Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors. The first one and most famous one is Prozac. But these days you got Prozac and Paxil, and Zoloft and[ inaudible] and Lexapro and a whole bunch of others in that category, and related ones too that affect, serotonin and norepinephrine.

Basically, all these drugs work on different sets of neuro transmitters to augment their levels in the brain in ways that we still don’t fully understand how they run, but seemed to have some efficacy in reducing anxiety and reducing depression. I’ve taken a lot of these drugs myself, and some of them seem to work and some of them don’t. Some of them have terrible side effects.

The depressing thing about a lot of this is that, a lot of these doesn’t work. It takes a lot of trial and error. Therapy can be effective, and I would encourage anyone who’s suffering with these things to seek out treatment, because it can be a lifesaver. But it can sometimes takes a few tries to find a therapist that you like, or medication that works. If you look at the long term evidence, genuinely, it’s like a third to a half or something of any treatment works. It’s not always clear why the thing that’s working is working.

That’s why CBT has the best evidence in its favor, and it also has in its favor, since it’s not a drug, it’s not addictive, it’s not dependency forming, and ideally, you can learn the skills from CBT and take them with you through your life, maintain practicing them unlike if you’re on a drug and it runs, what happens if you go off the narcotic? Sometimes you can have withdrawal issues.

Brett McKay: I think you brought up an interesting point that anxiety sounds like it’s something that you’re never going to be cured of it. You’re always going to have to simply manage it for most of your life.

Scott Stossel: I would love to be able to be cured of it. Some of the time with 10% of my brain hope to achieve like complete composure. Not that there won’t be things that scare me or that I worry about legitimately, but it’s not something that besets me. I suppose, some people they get really … The one thing I didn’t mention is mindfulness practice. These days, there’s tons of evidence that various meditation skills and practices and other forms of mindfulness genuinely can help confer the kind of resiliency and soothe that say neuro peptide Y does in these Navy SEALs.

In my therapy, I’ve tried a combination of CBT with trying to do meditation stuff. I think it is, and you’re not cured, you’re always going to have your underlying genetics. If you’re a high reactive person, someone who’s prone to be nervous about things, that’s probably always going to be the case. But you can reduce the amount of it, and as “youre telling”, you can learn to manage it with different sets of abilities for whatever kind of therapy you’re utilizing, or to manage it with medication or to adjust your lifestyle.

Sometimes, if you’re anxious or depressed, that’s your body and your brain telling you something’s not right in your life and you need to build some alters, and sometimes having a better lifestyle. All this obvious cliched stuff that people tell you is true. It’s really important to get sleep. For me, if I’m under sleep, my nervousnes goes through the roof. It’s for me also, and tons of studies support this, regular workout. These are basic things that don’t expensed anything, you don’t need insurance for. But in modern life, it’s sometimes hard to work out regularly, it’s hard to get a good night’s sleep when you’ve got deadlines.

All these things, if you do them all, you can actually minimize the effect that nervousnes has on your life. There’s always “re going to be”, for me, there’s things that erupt that cause my nervousnes to spike. But when I’m doing well, I can both have those spikes be fewer and farther between and also when they happen, manage them better and not have them abruptly spiraling off the railway or over medicating myself. It’s a long winded route of saying yes. If one can learn to manage them and if you could do that, then you can live a fairly fulfilling and rewarding life that’s not the constant sadnes that anxiety can sometimes be.

Brett McKay: Right. I think that’s hopeful. Because there’s a strong genetic component to nervousnes. People who have that problem and they’re listening is like well, crap, I’m hosed. That could be the approach or it could be like well, okay this is the thing, I got to work with it. It’s not great, but I can manage. There’s things I can do.

Scott Stossel: Yeah. I’ve ever talked to my therapist when I was learning about my great grandfather and all the terrible difficulties that he had had, and then multiple hospitalizations. I was thinking, God, he reminds me so much of myself, and I have his genes, and I’m doomed to this. My therapist was like, “First of all, he’s your great grandpa. You have a tiny fraction of his genes. And second of all, there’s medications that we have now that he didn’t have access to that can help you. There’s simply lots of stuff that you can do. Yes, genetics is powerful, but you’re not doomed to your genetic fate. We can learn to cultivate resilience.”

A lot of the therapies that are effective, like I say, behavioral therapy just in general, facing your anxieties. It’s easy for me to say this, and sometimes hard for me to do. But if you have specific phobiums, like anxiety of flying or anxiety of public speaking, the more you do it, the easier it gets. That’s a simple lesson, but it’s true. For me, sometimes those things can be so anxiety produce that I can’t do them, and then I feel like it’s a setback and my nervousnes gets worse. But what my therapist is always telling me, is get up, persist, do it again, and you will get better.

Brett McKay: Right, exposure therapy, I think that-

Scott Stossel: Exposure therapy, exactly. If you have a fear of heights, they’ll take you up on higher and higher houses. Sometimes these therapies sound kind of extreme. If you have severe claustrophobia, there’s actually therapists who will put you in a coffin. You have horrible nervousnes but then you just wait it out and you realize I didn’t die. I’m okay, I can manage it. It was just a really unpleasant emotion.

For people with flying phobia, there are pilots who will take you up. A plenty of airports have programs where you can go and get strolled around the plane by a pilot, explains how the whole thing works, and basically little by little, expose yourself, sit in the plane and then go on a short plane ride. Eventually, hopefully you can be flying to Europe without being completely miserable, as I’ve sometimes been on international flights.

Brett McKay: I think that’s an important point for parents who might have infants who are hyper sensitive or super anxious. Oftentimes, when you’re a mother, you’re like, “Well, I simply don’t want my child to freak out. So, I’ll only avoid the thing that causes them lots of anxiety gets them worked up. Rather, the better approach might be well, just slowly introduce that thing over and over again so they don’t get scared and they’re not scared or it doesn’t worry them anymore.

Scott Stossel: That’s absolutely right. I think that’s really important. What I’m about to say may sound paradoxical, but it’s not. If you think that there’s all kinds of evidence that suggest that if you think your kid might be developing unusual level of nervousnes, it could be a clinical level of nervousnes. The proof says, the earlier you can get help and get them therapy, the better outcome they’ll have, the less likely they’ll be to suffer anxiety ailments as an adult.

Early interventions to keep, but early intervention doesn’t mean sparing them from nervousnes. What virtually any therapist today would tell you is actually, and this is the antidote to helicopter parenting, don’t try to do everything for your kids. Don’t try to spare them the unpleasant experience or the thing that’s stimulating them nervous in particular, if it’s being anxious about going to school. I know how hard that is, both having been a very anxious child and now being a parent who has anxious children, it’s incredibly painful and hard to watch your child suffering and feeling nervous. Everything in my body wants to be, I only want to take him out of that situation so he’s not nervous.

But every therapist I’ve ever seen says, “No , no, you have to let them, within reason, experience the anxiety and learn that they can overcome it and that’s how they develop resilience. Don’t do it for them. That’s how you’ll helicopter your parent, your kid into being a helpless, neurotic 22 year old who can’t construct his own dinner.

Brett McKay: Right. What’s the nation of your nervousnes today? You’ve said you’re do cognitive behavioral therapy, some mindfulness meditation. Are you taking medication?

Scott Stossel: I am. I’m still real bad at the mindfulness. I think it’s one of these catch 22 s that the people who benefit from mindfulness and yoga and that kind of thing, meditation the most are the ones who are worst at it, because my thoughts are always racing, I have a hard time sitting still. But I’m trying that, doing CBT with a really good therapist, and that’s helped doing exposure therapy, which is really unpleasant. But I suppose does help, and then yeah, I am currently on Lexapro, which is one of these SSRI medications.

Then I take a medication called gabapentin, which was originally an anti-seizure medication, and a drug for pain, but has shown some effectiveness in treating anxiety. And then, I used to take a lot of benzodiazepines. I’ve now tried not to. They work incredibly well for me. For me, that was always my magic bullet. I knew I could always survive if could have access to enough Xanax.

The problem is it ran a little too well. The peril is, I started to become too dependent on it. The more of it you take, the more you need to take in order to get the same effect, and it can be very dangerous. People become dependent on it. I’m trying not to use that now. It was pretty widely prescribed by both psychiatrists and just-

Brett McKay: Just family doctors.

Scott Stossel: Just family doctors because it is so effective. But there’s also a pretty big school of thought out there that’s like, they truly shouldn’t be prescribing it so widely because it can be, in certain people, very addictive and dependency forming.

Brett McKay: I imagine, in all you’re doing things like getting enough sleep, exercising, managing stress, reducing that when you can, et cetera.

Scott Stossel: Yeah. I don’t know why, but for me, getting regular exert it’s like night and day. My wife can even tell if at the end of the day I’m on the phone, she’ll be like, “Why don’t you go work out.” I’m like, “Why? ” She’s like, “I can just tell in your voice that you haven’t.” It’s like my personality changes somehow. You don’t always feel like working out, there are some people who simply don’t exercise at all. But for me, forcing myself to work out even when I don’t keep feeling it, is just so good for my state of mind and good for my physical health as well. That’s true for just about everyone.

Brett McKay: Right. I imagine, that there’s someone’s listening to this podcast, they’re struggling with anxiety, best advice, go get help, go talk to somebody. There’s things you can do to help manage it. You have a flourishing productive life. Like yourself, like you said, you’ve fought with this your entire life, but you have a good career, and you’re doing a lot of great things.

Scott Stossel: Yeah. There are a lot of ways you can get help. I’m forgetting what it stands for. But NAMI, is like the National Alliance of Mental Health Initiative, or something like that, can help you find even if you don’t have insurance, can help you find access to individual therapy or group therapy or only resources in your region. If you have anxiety in particular, there’s individual organizations , nonprofit organization called the Anxiety and Depression Association of American, the ADAA. If you go on their website, they have a list of therapists in your area.

You can always just go to your primary care physician and they can help refer you. Any city that has a university will often have an anxiety disorder clinic. There’s lots of help available out there.

Brett McKay: Scott, is there some place people go to learn more about your work?

Scott Stossel: You can go to my website. I’m embarrassed, I’m blanking on now with-

Brett McKay: Is it scottstossel.com?

Scott Stossel: It’s scottstossel.com. Yes, thank you. I never go to it.

Brett McKay: Right. Well, hey, Scott, this has been a great conversation. Thanks so much for your time.

Scott Stossel: Thanks, man. I really appreciate it.

Brett McKay: My guess today was Scott Stossel. He’s the author of the book, My Age of Anxiety. It’s available on amazon.com and bookstores everywhere. You can also check at our depict notes at aom.is/ ageofanxiety. Where you can find links to resources, where you can delve deeper into this topic.

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Hi, I'm 16 and I'm getting my first car. I've saved up a chunk of money to make the down payment and 2 or 3 of the monthly payments (my parents are paying for the rest). I've narrowed it down to 2 cars of about the same price. A 2004 MiniCooper and a 2005 mustang (v6). My parents will be paying for my insurance so I was hoping you could tell me which one would have a lower rate so I could make it easier on them? I already know it's going to be high because I'm a teenage driver so whatever helps really. A mustang is kind of, sort of, sports car-ish (I'm not big into cars people, ignore my ignorant terminology) so I figured that would have an effect on the insurance. On the other hand, a minicoop is very small and I don't believe they're made in the U.S like a mustang is so parts and stuff would be higher if I'm correct? Thank you very much for any help!""

Additional Driver costs?

How much should i expect to pay to add a permanent additional driver to my car insurance? It will be a driver on their provisional licence, aged 24. Its with Direct Line, in the UK I already have a quote, i just think i was quoted wrong, and want to know what other people think it usually costs.""

Who will pay the medical and funereal fees?

My boyfriends son was killed by a man who ran a red light. His son was NO way at fault. The man has 15,000 coverage on his insurance (california) and that's it. Bare minimum, so now what is done with the 35,000 left for costs not paid by medical ins ect... I feel it would be so unfair for him to have to pay for the costs when his son has passed away, so not fair.""

""If Obamacare is cheaper, more affordable, and saves $2,500 per year, why does Obama need to allow 500,000?""

... or more people who were buying more expensive and worse insurance (and thus should be able to afford to buy the cheaper, more affordable and better coverage which saves them $2,500 per year) and how those terrible policies canceled.... why does Obama need to allow them to buy terrible coverage which focuses on catastrophic coverage instead of his far better and far cheaper plans?""

Drivers license and Insurance?

When you get your drivers license do you have to get insurance with it or do you have to wait until you get a car? Do you have to get insurance when you purchase a car? Also does the cost for insurance decrease when you turn 21? How much is insurance a month generally and in North Carolina? I know insurance is necessary though I just need the facts before buying it.

""Does anybody know where to get a cheap 50cc twist and go moped, with cheap insurance?""

Does anybody know where to get a cheap 50cc twist and go moped, with cheap insurance?""

1999 Pontiac Grand Am SE auto insurence?

how much will it cost for me monthly just estimate the price please to have insurance on that car thanks and are ponitacs goood with there motor and all that it has 172000 miles on it for $2900 should i take it or na just tell me about the insurance please thanks

Is hurricane Insurance mandatory on Fl homes?

2008-2009 Ford Mustang Convertible?

Hi- we are looking into a new car and are interested in either a 08 or 09 Mustang Convertible...would you reccomend this vehicle? One thing we are worried about is the insurance costs as the car is not that expensive. Does insurance really go up a ton? Pros-Cons? Thanks a ton!

""I need cheap car insurance, I'm in college?""

I'm 19, a college kid and need car insurance. I now it's going to be crazy high, but if anyone has any insight or tips to make it cheaper, it would me much appreciated.""

Insurance when financing a car ?

What is it called when the dealership , covers your insurance for a day or so and lets you take the car until you get insurance on the car.""

VERY EXPENSIVE CAR INSURANCE?

I can't understand this issue. I have been living in the uk since 2008. I used to pay 900 for the insurance, then it raised to 1200 and now they ask me for 2300 for the third year renewal. I never made a claim and I have a full UK license and an international license for 11 years. I am 29 years old and I am an educated with MSc in medical sciences and I never drink or smoke. Is it because I am a foreigner. My friend is a British and he only pay 490 and he just obtained his license and we live at the same building. I can't find an answer for this problem only that car insurance companies are racist toward foreigners.""

""Help! looking for affordable health care insurance in atlanta, ga?

i am a single mom recently laid off from work. i have asthma and take a prescribed drug every day. i am running out and just to see my dr. for a new rx is $125 and then for a 30day ...show more

How much would insurance be for a jeep Cherokee?

i am planning to get a jeep cherokee or wrangler and want to know how much car insurance would be. i am 16 and want to know how much money i should pay insurance to see if it is in my budget.

What should I do I hate insurance company?

Where can I find cheaper car insurance quotes?

I'm 17 in a few months, have a car, and have been checking insurance quotes.""

""Pizza delivery driver insurance in own car, where can I get insurance uk?

I have been offered a job as a pizza delIvery driver but I need to insure my car with business insurance I have tried everywhere but know one does it please Help x

Does California state law not allow insurance companies to increase rates for $750 or less claims?

I heard California Sate law prohibits insurance companies from raising your rates if you have a total accident claim of $750 (not to include deductible amount)? Is this true?

Can my husband take life insurance out on me without me knowing in the military?

hey my husband is in the military and he has a life insurance policy on him and i only have a small portion of it and everything else goes to his mother but i just recently find out he has life insurance out on me way more than i would get from him and i didnt sign anything so im wondering can he do it without my consent? and can i cancel it?

Can i find out someones car insurance company?

a lady hit my car back in march of this year. she agreed to pay for the damage but then moved out and skipped town. well the police finaly found her but the problem is i dont know her insurance company. i have her full name, and her vehicle vin number. i dont want to claim it on my insurance so my rates go up, thats nuts. so i need to find her insurance company so i can file it with hers! anyway i can do this?""

Can anyone recomend some cheap insurance companies for drives who have completed pass plus?

I'm 18, soon to be 19, and have been trying to get a quote on a 1998 vauxhall corsa, and the only 1 i got before was ridiculously high. I know it being an older model is going to make a difference, but does anyone know from personal experience or whatever which insurance companies offer decent insurance prices to young drives, who have completed the pass plus scheme? Thanks, much appreciated!""

The average price of car insurance?

How can i get insurance for my kid in nj from the state?

I cant afford insurance for my kid can i get it threw nj from the state

Can I insure my car in California if it is registered in Oklahoma?

I currently have insurance in Oklahoma. My permanent address is in Oklahoma but I am stationed in California and California doesn't require military personnel to register their vehicles there.

Provisional Car Insurance?

I am currently looking for car insurance on a car I own, The car is an 04 punto. Basically I need provisional insurance for a month and I own the car so I need a policy that covers both of these, I am 18, Any suggestions? Thanks""

How much does car insurance cost?

I'm a male in Connecticut under the age of 25 and I wanna get a new car. Can anyone give me a ball park figure?

What is the best and cheap health insurance?

I came form a different country so i dont have any insurance when i came to california. What is the best that i dont have to pay anything when emergency and cheap like $30 per month.

What would the insurance on this car be roughly?

Just been looking at this car. Should be driving by the end of this year. What would the insurance be roughly? any car expert opinions? we're looking at this cause its a classic, its fairly cheap, it can fit my brothers cello and my parents like it as well and would pay for it. Just what would the insurance be like for me? when I start to drive?""

Best public health insurance plan in nyc?

I've been traveling after college and won't go back to school for another year. I've been volunteering only and haven't worked for over a year. I don't qualify for ...show more

What do I do if my car insurance lapsed without my knowledge?

I need to get tags for my car this month, only when I called my car financing company to see how much it is, they told me that my insurance had lapsed, and my registration was suspended!! I had no idea, because my cousin had gotten the insurance for me (we are now estranged, and I don't have any contact with her), and I was told by her the insurance expired in May. All my documments have been sent to her house (and she refuses to send me my mail) and I had no idea. Now, I'm terrified that I won't be able to get my registration back, or pay fines, because I just barely have enough to get new insurance and pay for my tags. I have no proof that she bought insurance for me through May or anything. Does anyone else have had to go through this? What will happen? Please help!""

Where to get cheap car insurance?

my car insurance rates keep going back and forth and i don't have the money to pay 130.00 a month or 170.00 or whatever they decide to put it at. at first it was 83.15 then it jumped to 170.00 now it is 130.00 can someone please tell me where i can get insurance for at less than 100 dollars?

How can i insure my car for 1?

just read somewhere on this site that you can insure a car for 1 surely this is a load of uncle tom cobbler? would be very impressed if someone can answer this question... seeing as my car is only worth 500 why should i be expected to pay almost that in insurance? it would get written off any way should i ever claim. cos being an olde banger insurance cost for parts and availability not as easy and quick to get.

""My 18-year-old brother is addicted to meth. He wants to quit, but can't afford rehab, no insurance.?""

He is not interested in NA or any faith-based program. Are there any proven state-funded programs or at least semi-affordable programs? He lives in Cali. He dropped out of high school and has little motivation to do anything, despite being smart and good-looking. My parents basically let him do whatever he wants, and I don't trust them to change or be able to help. He wants to learn to discipline himself and get a job, etc. but first he needs to kick the drugs.""

Car Insurance: Which is cheapest in America?

Just purchased brand new vehicle and wanted some feedback on which companies offer inexpensive rates and superior service when needed.

Were we can apply and buy liability insurance?

We are managing 300 units condominium.What approximately liability insurance will cost?

New driver car insurance?

How exactly do you get/where can you find cheaper car insurance for new drivers?

""Car Insurance..if i go out of state, but my parents pay for the car insurance and i live in another state...?""

What i meant to say was..if i have a car, it is in my parent's name, and i move out of state, is it possible to still be covered by the insurance even if it isnt from the state it is being payed for in? or do i have to get insurance and the car changed to my name in another state? i hope someone understads. thank you for you time in reading this :) 10 points to the best answers! or lets say Correct answer!""

How can we get health insurance?

My Fiance (22) and I (18) are planning to get married November 30th, but if we do, I will no longer be covered by my mother's health insurance. We live in NY (currently Broome County) and we need cheap to free health insurance. At the moment, both of us (full-time students) have an income of zero, with no pay stubs (obviously) or other proofs of income. How can we get health coverage?""

What is an affordable health care provider with low deductable?

""Mustang Insurance, Help!!!?""

Hello, I have a quick question about insurance. I am 18 years old, living in Orange, CA and currently driving a 2003 nissan altima that I am going to trade for a 2002 ford mustang gt. Now i know that contacting an agent will be the best way to find out more realistic rates, but right now I want to hear from past mustang owners. I was also wondering if having good credit will give me a discount on my insurance? I know insurance will be high, so don't waste my time explaining it to me, If it helps, I always obey the speed limit, never gotten into any crashes nor have I gotten any tickets. All Help is appreciated, thanks.""

What should I do I hate insurance company?

Canceling Geico car insurance?

I've had Geico insurance on my car for the past year and I've found a much better rate elsewhere and plan to switch. I'm in Virginia. How do I go about canceling with Geico? Do I have to wait until a certain time (end of 6mos, etc) or can I do it at any time? Is there a cancellation fee? Thanks!""

Should I continue to pay for insurance on my old car?

I bought a new car last month and I called my insurance company to tell them, and they added the car onto my existing insurance for my old car. I've had to pay around 400. in the last month, for a car I no longer am driving. I'm trying to sell it, but it is just sitting in my garage. Should I have to pay for insurance on this car? Can't I just tell them that I'm not driving the car and I don't want to pay for insurance?""

What reputable health insurance companies are out there?

What reputable health insurance companies are out there My mom doesn't have health insurance and my job doesn't give insurance to family members. I would like to pay monthly to a health insurance company so my mom could get health check up when she needs it. Do you know any health insurance companies that can accept low monthly payments since I don't get paid that much?

NO Car insurance! Will i get 6 points?

I was a named driver on my Dad's insurance, he had not paid one of the instalments for the insurance but did know! I was driving the car when i got pulled over. I did not no i had no insurance as i did not deal with the payments. Will i still get 6 points as i need my licence to get to university :(""

Which company I can get cheaper health insurance?and any hospital free or cheaper?

I just moved to Schaumburg, IL. i want to buy an health insurance for my mom,and she is 49 years old. Anyone know where I can get cheaper health insurance? And also is there have any free hospital or cheaper?""

I don't have insurance but my parents do. Can I drive my parent's car without them present in the car?

Can I legally drive alone by myself as long as I have my parent's insurance card in the car? I just got my license and I don't plan on driving to work or school, rather just for miscellaneous activities. I don't feel like I should be paying for car insurance yet. If I get in an accident, wouldn't it just be as if my parent's got in the accident. So can I legally drive under my parent's insurance if my name has not been put on the plan as one of their children who drive. Is it OK for me to drive alone to run some errands now and then?""

Insurance didn't report?

My sister couldn't afford to pay her car insurance. Her insurances company never reported to the DMV that it was canceled. why? She even got speeding tickets and i thought the police do a run when they pull you over. how is this possible?

Step parents health insurance?

I was wondering is it possible for my soon to be wife, to put my kids on her health insurance plan from work? The children live with us. We are in california.""

What's the best life insurance?

This question is for my mom. My mom is 63 years old and needs life insurance. She is in great condition. Never smoked or done drugs. She never drinks alcohol. The only thing really is that she has been told she is borderline diabetic. My mom doesn't have a lot of money so she would like to find an insurance that is very cheap. Her job will be ending in July an will only have her disability to live off of. So what's the best life insurance?

Im 17 and getting my liscense soon how much will car insurance be 4 me with a used car that will b in my name?

I will be getting my drives liscense soon and my parents are putting limits to where i can drive and when and i wont be able to drive it when ever i would like, how much is car insurence gonna be with me for a used car that will be in my name ?""

Can someone give me an auto insurance cost?

Does anyone know what the cost per month of Ohio car insurance would be for a 19 year old male. Just an idea would be good, thanks.""

Do I need to be on someone's auto insurance in order to get my driver's license?

I'm in my 30s and I want to get my driver's license. I had my permit years ago, but I never kept it up just because I always thought it was a hassle to get my license. People would tell me it would cost hundreds of dollars to get my license. So I personally didn't know, but I want to know for sure. After I get my permit, I know you have to wait a week, but as for auto insurance, do I need to be on someone's auto policy? Also if I don't have a car yet, how can I take the driving test? The reason I ask because I see so many people who never had cars who get driver's license just like that. I've even see immigrants with license and they don't even come to America with cars, so how do they do it?""

Help!! i need help picking out car insurance?

Im 20 years old I wokr fulltime and go to school full time. I recently purchased my first car but I cant dirve it off the lot until I have car insurance. I live in michigan which is a no fault insurance state. i was trying to get full coverage on my car. but the lowest quote i found was 450 a month. I only paid 3500 for a 2004 monte carlo ss. I will be paying more in car insurance than i paid for my car. plus I cant really afford to pay 450 a month. I need help. Insurance is a rip off. I cant get on my parents account becasue I was a foster child.

Car insurance and international driver's license?

Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to get car insurance and buy a car in the USA if you don't have an American driver's license... I only have a French driver's license and an international driver's license. Could you please also tell me how much does car insurance approximately cost for 1 year? Thank you very much in advance.""

Cheapest car insurance????

looking for a cheap car insurance guys, plz help""

How do you find an insurance quote for a car you may get?

I am looking to trade my Car, which is just a Sedan for what would be considered as a sports car. The car is older, but I'm certain the price will go up because of the fact of it being a sports car, I can't find anywhere that will give me a quote on what to expect insurance price wise if I were to complete the trade. Does anyone know of a place to find this out? I am trading a 2003 Ford Taurus SES for a 1997 Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse GST Convertible""

What are average prices for teen auto insurance in CA?

just averages not a sports car i have good grades too if that helps

My door was kicked in... looking for average cost of repair?

My door was kicked in recently, someone broke in and robbed me. I dont have home owners insurance, so I have to fork over the costs. The frame will need replaced and a new door will probably need to be installed. Just wondering if anyone has had to replace their frame and door and how much it cost them. I would have called home depot or lowes by now... im just worried that i am going to have a heart attack when they tell me the price!!!! thanks for any help!""

What happen if drive car with no insurance?

i've been buying this used car since last 2 weeks and drive it with no insurance. The MOT and tax will end in August. I just cant afford to buy the insurance yet. What happen if i don't insured it? i live in Northern Ireland, UK""

Where can i find cheap no faught insurance in Detroit Michigan?

Should i get insurance for my first car? Where can i get CHEAP car insurance? I live in Aus.?

Should i get insurance for my first car? Where can i get CHEAP car insurance? I live in Aus. I am looking at buying a s13 non turbo at 11k. when i looked for a quote the minimum was like 5k which i do not have the money seeing as i am going to have to get a loan for my car.

What is the cheapest car insurance?

Looking for cheap insurance because I have had to tickets for speeding.

Is Geico a good auto insurance company?

I have been looking at a lot of different insurance companies recently. I have gotten a lot of online quotes and so far, Geico is the cheapest, not by a lot, but every little bit helps. Can anyone let me know the good and the bad with Geico? I'm in Michigan if that helps...""

Where can I find affordable health insurance?

I am 19, a smoker and I am currently not working but I have health issues and I need to find a health care provider that won't drain my bank account... Any ideas?""

""Quick question on car insurance, thanks for answers?""

I am getting my second car insurance, i live in leeds however my parents live in northumberland, would it be legal to put my car insurance ADDRESS as northumberland (half the price). I would still be named driver, and i have all bank details and permenant things such as phone contracts registered to northumberland as i move each year i class it as my permanent address. So i could say the car is kept there but i use it sometimes, as in northumberland is also classed as my address, and i am there quite a lot anyway. Cheers for advice, and if it is legal or questionable, would it still be acceptable if even frowned upon, cheers!""

What should I do I hate insurance company?

Should my car insurance company be forced to cover preexisting conditions?

After all, liberals want preexisting conditions be covered for health care. What's the difference? I want them to fix that dent in my front end that was there when I bought the car.""

What is the best online source for shopping for health insurance?

My son is 20, full time college student in a different state (PA.) Home state is Ohio. I am on disability so my insurance (and my husbands') is through Medicare.. I am shopping for an individual plan for my son, and there are so many sites which offer so many choices...Not only do I need to get the insurance plan, I need to find the best web site for the query. (tried einsurance, etc..)""

Car insurance choice of car?

Im a new driver not passed my test yet but not far away and i need to know what is the best car you can get for cheap car insurance maybe top 5 cheap cars for new drivers or something! im un employed due to medical reasons at the moment, but recovering well :) so i cant afford nothing to exspensive im 18 and i have a provisional but will have a full licence soon Thanks""

Moving to Pennsylvania - how do i get car insurance?

I recently moved to PA from NY. I have Allstate insurance on a rented car using my old address in NY. It expires in a little under a month. What do I do now? How do I go about getting new insurance? DO I have to go through the crazy process of getting PA plates? (I only plan on being here for 2 yrs - then I'm moving back to NY) BTW, my parents still live in NY. I'm not sure if that can help me.""

Best health insurance for a 63 year old male?

My dad retired at 62 and a half... to make a long story short, he was promised continuing health insurance from his employer but now they are saying they will only be secondary- meaning they only pay if he buys a primary. What would be a good option for health insurance for him? Unfortunately, he is a smoker and had a stroke... he is 63 and a half right now.""

What is the best insurance that covers eating disorder treatment?

What insurance is the best to cover all forms of treatment for an eating disorder. My family would like me to go to residential for my bulimia it is out of control right now. Is their any good insurance that also doesn't just cover Pennsylvania?

""Getting my new car, Challenger 2009, any insurance rates?""

How much would the APPROXIMATE insurance rate be on a 2009 Dodge Challenge R/T? I know it won't be low, but it won't be that high since it's an American car....correct? Her is the bad part...My record. 2 Accidents and a stop sign...But i will turn 18 soon if that matters. Car Info (another bad thing) 5.7 Liter V8 Hemi, 375 horses. How much is the Approximate insurance guys, just throw me an estimate.""

Car Insurance increased? what to do next?

My car insurance company had increase my insurance by 2 folds (103%) increase. I contacted the company, enquired about this increase. But they said they cant do anything about it, If I want I can raise this with the customer service chief and chief executive. I wrote them a letter stating it was ridiculous amount of money, they asking me to pay. Also clearly brought to their notice, that I have a clean history, no claim, paid insurance on time, no accidents, and I have no claim discount of 7 years in total. The companies chief executive has replied me in a letter stating, unfortunately, the post code where is stay is subjected to recent increase and personal injury claims from post code area has gone up. So nothing he could do. But I replied him saying, I lived in the same place for more than 5 years. But still no good. Regards to this, I email Watch Dog, explaining the same a month ago. Still no reply or correspondence from them. Now I am stuck, I do not what to do. Honestly, I only brought this care for 500 in very good condition and it is still the same. But my insurance is more twice the value of my car. Please somebody tell , what can I do next. This is really ridiculous amount and unacceptable whatsoever. Thanks in advance.""

Is it legal for car lot to hold my check from insurance?

I had a wreck a couple weeks ago and told me I could come pick up my check today from insurance. When I got there to fill out the paperwork and pick up the check they told me it wasn't ready and that they will have to send it to the car dealer (Express Credit Auto) so they can take out what I owe and they give me whats left which I do not have a car now and the check was to get me another car, which I told them and all they said was to use what is left to get another car by them. Which I just want my check so I can get my car, I told them I will still be paying my bill for the car but they then said it is illegal for the insurance to give me the check when they hold the lien to the car. I don't know what the legal side is, can anyone help me??""

Insurance? what will happen?

ii was diagnosed at 17 i am 19 currently getting medical cause of my parents income and my current diagnosis brain tumor i was wondering if i worked and made my own income would it be my own or family? i am cvred under family cvrage what would happen to the insurance i live in california would i have to purchase my own insurance are there companine who would do that? i will be able tto work i have a physical disability

""Car Insurance, will it go up IF?""

Right.. well im gonna be able to drive the end of this year.. and i want to get a Vauxhall Astra Estate and make a few changes.. for Example: GSI front bumper Exhuast GSI alloy wheels possibly a new spray of paint leather seats new head lights Will the insurance go up if i do these things? i know its going to be high anyway because im a new driver.. but i wanna know if it will go up anymore and roughly by how much, and if anyone could just give me a general list of things i have to tell the insurance company if i change anything on the vehicle. Thanks!""

Am I covered by Insurance if I drive my girlfiends car?

I have insurance with progrssive on my cars and she has state farm on hers. Would I be covered ??? Thanks, Mud Bug""

No insurance ticket?

I got a ticket today for no insurance. I know I can go to court and show proof of insurance and just pay court costs. After I show the court my insurance card, are they going to contact the insurance company to make sure it is valid? I'm sure you know why I am asking.""

What is the average car insurance for a 16 year old?

I'm 16 years old, and just passed my drivers license test. I live in Washington State and am going to be driving a 2002 Hyundai Elantra. Does anyone know how much I could be looking at for insurance monthly? (my mom is currently insured with Progressive) -Thanks""

Teens: how much is your car insurance a month?

How much does it cost for car insurance?

I am 17 years old. I just got my licenses and i need insurance. How much does it cost with my parents and how much does it cost without my parents?

Do I need to buy car insurance before driving a used car that I purchase home?

I am thinking about buying a car. I won't know if I'm buying this used car until I go look at it. How do I drive it home, if I won't have car insurance at the moment that I buy it?""

How much would private insurance cost for two adults and 1 baby?

My fianc and I would like to get married. About how much would it cost for the two of us and our 14 week old?

Re saga insurance?

has anybody had a bad experience with saga insurance [over 50s only]

Why is it that the Republicans Party Sucks up so much to the Insurance Companies?

???

""How do I file an auto insurance claim and what exactly will happen to my insurance rate, deductible, etc.?""

My windshield was really frosty but I only had to drive like 20 yards to get where I wanted. So like an idiot, I start driving and run into a fire hydrant. This damages the front right quarter panel, the right blinker, and it may have also damaged the axel or steering column because I couldn't get my car to move after that. What do I tell my insurance company? and am I going to have to pay anything?""

What company has the very cheapest car insurance for Tennessee?

I just need the bare minimum insurance. Which is the cheapest?

Broke my contract phone and have no insurance?

Basically, entirely my own fault... i have no insurance on my phone (had it for three months) and it was smashed yesterday! But my question is, if i phone up vodafone and tell them i will PAY three months worth of insurance, backdate it back to the three months i have had this phone, can I then claim for a replacement? Technically I will still be paying for insurance and they will be getting money? Is this possible??""

""Getting a used car, and insurance the same day (which first)?""

Today I will be looking at a used car a costumer has in their mechanics shop. There is a Geico agent right around the corner from where the vehicle is, and I would like to know, if I should get insurance on the car before I test drive it, or after I know I want to buy it. I also would like to know how will I drive it after I have bought it without it's license plates, and if I can would I be able to take it to the DMV, and get plates the same day?""

What are some affordable life insurance policies for people with diabetes?

What are some affordable life insurance policies for people with diabetes? Looking for $400,000 in coverage.""

What should I do I hate insurance company?

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