u/Grow_Wings28

My boyfriend just got diagnosed with genital warts.

He got them maybe a year ago at most?

We've been together for 5 years.

I had the vaccine done years ago so I guess that's why I probably haven't caught it too. He's also my first and only sexual partner.

Of course I'm offering him support, but I also have a question: if the warts appeared a year ago at most, is it possible that he caught HPV before we got together or must it be a more recent thing?

Considering the fact that I was vaccinated for it, should I still worry about getting it as well?

I'm going to start today, after I get home from work. I'm going to set an alarm in 10 mins and lay on the bed, then as soon as it goes off I'm going to get up to turn it off. I'll do this a few times a day.

It sounds silly but I've read that it works, apparently it should help you get up almost automatically to your alarm.

Hopefully it will work as my inability to get up early is really affecting my productivity and could even affect my work life if I worked a morning shift job.

I'm often unable to go to the gym, even if I love going, because I never wake up/get up on time. Sometimes I completely miss entire mornings because of how late I get up. This is not who I want to be.

When I'm asleep, it's very hard to wake me up: light doesn't wake me up, touch hardly wakes me up, even sounds often don't wake me up. I sometimes wake up with my alarm going off since like 15 mins or I turn it off in my sleep, so for this test I'm going to start putting my phone farther from bed so I have to get up to turn it off.

I think I also struggle with some level of sleep apnea as I have a deviated septum and can't breathe well at all. I snore a lot and wake up extremely groggy and feeling tired and slow. For this reason, I always wear nose tape which seems to make my sleep quality a bit better. Just for context.

Please tell me any advice you have. I will be updating as this "experiment" goes on.

For some reason, I (20F) got overstimulated at the gym today. This sporadically happens to me when in closed, crowded spaces like IKEA or malls.

Not usually at the gym, but this time it did, idk why. My headphones started to make me uncomfortable and frustrated as well as the music that I was playing so I took them off. At this point it was still mild so I just finished my workout and went back home.

I was very excited to clean since earlier, so I started cleaning the kitchen and he got home so I communicated to him that I wasn't feeling well and why. the feeling kept getting worse, I got a headache, tension in my face muscles and almost felt like I had to to throw up kind of. I was also feeling very emotional, everything I thought about would make me frustrated or angry, including the fact I wouldn't have been able to finish cleaning because of how bad I was feeling.

At this point he had cooked dinner so we started eating. A hair got on my bite of food and after I took it off I just started crying. Then immediately burst into laughter because of how ridiculous it was to cry for such a stupid reason. Then crying again because I just wanted to cry. then laughing because of my bf's shocked face. Then cried again and laughed again. All in the span of like 1 minute or less.

He looked like he was very uneasy and wouldn't even look at me in the eyes 😭 I told him “i swear i'm not crazy” and asked him if I scared him and he said yes. He's acting a little cold now too. I'm feeling very guilty now because that was definitely not my intention, I just couldn't help that intense emotional reaction. I apologized too lol. Am I actually weird for that? Should I be worried?

the overstimulation is getting better btw 😭 still not feeling good but not as bad as before. Maybe eating & drinking helped.

I'm 20 and I started working my second job and first full-time one 3 months ago.

it depends on the day and I'm not sure what the triggering factors are, but sometimes I get very anxious to the point it affects my performance.

I work at an ice cream shop and I often have heart palpitations, my head spins, sometimes I shake, my mind goes blank, I can't stop moving around a lot, and today even my eye started twitching. I'm still learning how to do the job, I think I'm a slower learner than most and the thought of doing something wrong terrifies me.

On days where I'm not anxious, my performance is noticeably better, although I still make mistakes.

I really wish I didn't care but I don't know how to do that. when I get home I think about work, when I sleep I dream about work. Some nights I wake up several times because of these dreams.

any advice? I have had similar issues in the past in different contexts (school and social events) but never knew how to deal with it.