u/Dogzrule1025

I don’t know why I feel so awkward about this but I just can’t bring myself to feel comfortable enough to wear a bathing suit in front of other people. It’s not a religious thing, I just don’t feel that comfortable with my body. I am athletic/fit but I feel like my body shape isn’t that feminine and maybe that is part of my hang up. Either way it’s hard for me to get past the concept that wearing a bra/undies in a restaurant would be considered taboo and you are basically “naked”, but you could walk 500ft away outside to the beach and wear the same amount of clothes but meant for water and it is completely normal. I really want to get over this so I can enjoy the summer. Any advice?

Is this a normal thing for an adult woman to own? Lol. She was asking in the context of using vibrator to help muscles relax and there is a pelvic floor device that vibrates that she has in clinic. But now I’m reading too much into it and I feel like she is soft launching the masturbation convo. We haven’t talked about sex related things because there isn’t much to talk about. I’m not opposed to talking about it and it might actually be helpful because I don’t have anyone else in my life to talk about it with but I’ll prob be awkward. Do pelvic PTs usually talk about this?

I feel like I should add the fact that I have never had sex and I am a millennial. So kind of out of the norm for my age bracket. I met with this new therapist and she started asking some questions about my sexual history (because I guess it is relevant for what I was referred for) but I wasn’t really expecting it and it felt really uncomfortable. She basically gently asked about sex which I denied ever having. And then she asked if I had done other things, fingering, etc. She also asked about attraction, desire, self pleasure. I wanted to melt into the floor. Does anyone else feel like this or is this one of the exact things I need to work on in therapy? Maybe I will eventually not feel like a middle schooler?

I’m not sure if this is normal but I’ve had this feeling I won’t be here for a long time. I can’t picture my life in the future and I don’t know what is wrong with me. I’m not super happy with how things are going. Does anyone else feel this way?

I work in PP doing telehealth and recently had a client disclose SI to me. There must have been a glitch in the EHR and the emergency contact form was not included in the intake paperwork. I have been seeing the client for months and didn’t catch it. Now I’m kicking myself because I don’t want to spook the client (who was very leery about telling me) but I feel uncomfortable continuing without it. How should I bring this up?

Of note, client was also very resistant in the beginning due to a bad experience in therapy. I finally feel like I’ve earned their trust and some of the walls have come down.

I’ve been seeing my therapist via telehealth since the fall. Recently I’ve been having a hard time and have been having some background thoughts of SI. I know I should probably tell her but I’m worried about how she will react. I also noticed that she doesn’t have an emergency contact form, she actually doesn’t even have my address. Do you think she will make me fill this out if I tell her? I don’t have anyone right now that I would want to use as an emergency contact.

I feel like I’ve had more than my fair share of terrible medical experiences.
After one of my surgeries I was unable to pee. After a couple of hours of trying/crying, the nurses got an order to put a catheter in. I didn’t want it and I was afraid and in pain which didn’t help. The nurses tried to be comforting but ultimately told me that it had to be done and they would do it quickly. I was still kind of out of it and two of the nurses held my legs down while the other one put it in. I know they were just doing their job but mentally it felt awful to have that done.
A few months after that I was forced to get a pelvic exam in the ER due to pain. I was originally anticipating having to get an ultrasound but the ER Dr would not order it without a pelvic exam first. She said it HAD to be done. She was in between my legs and without warning put her fingers in me. I had never had a pelvic exam or anything else in there yet and it hurt so bad. I cried the whole way home.

My question is how do I get over the medical anxiety now? I get so anxious when anyone has to do anything to my body and I don’t want to avoid medical care and miss something important. I also want to be able to have sex but I’m just so worried about not having full control over my body. If you have been through anything similar did it get better? Did it just take time?

I know sexuality is a spectrum but I cant figure out if I am in the realm of normal. I never had sex and until college I didn’t really have any “urges”. Last year I started feeling like I wanted to have sex at times and it was like a really distracting craving. But it comes and goes and sometimes I can go months without feeling that way. Should I get my hormones checked? In general is sex something that you feel like you need or could you go without it?

I’m trying to get more comfortable with my body and I just bought a clit sucking toy. I’m kind of nervous to use it but also kind of excited. Does it feel like the real thing?

Im in my late 20’s and I don’t have any sexual experience. Im honestly really intimidated by the idea of it. I struggle with tampons and I can’t imagine anything bigger going in there. Is there anything I can do to make it less scary? Does it always hurt the first time?

I had a hemiarthroplasty in 2025. Now I’m having a lot of anterior shoulder pain. When I do certain motions I feel a catching sensation and get a really sharp pain. My surgeon ordered a MRI and arthrogram. Will the images be distorted because of my pyrocarbon implant or is the MRI technology sophisticated enough that it won’t matter? Has anyone had an MRI after shoulder replacement?

I’m really frustrated because I want to get back to working out like I used to.