u/Violett-the-great

17F, 95 lbs and 5’2.” I got a small paper cut like 4 days ago and forgot to clean it. It started getting itchy earlier today and it’s been swelling. At this point it’s swelling more like there’s a tiny balloon and I’m losing feeling in my hand. it’s also really painful. It’s 9pm and my parents don’t really believe in going to the doctor so they’re like not concerned but I just wanna make sure I’m not like dying of sepsis?

My whole life I’ve struggled with mental health issues and in particular I can’t go into movie theaters or planetariums cause I just get really panicked in those types of spaces, idk why. My friends think it’s cause this one time I brought up to them that I used to escape my room at night and bother my parents when I was in elementary school, so my parents would get mad at me and board up my door at night (which did upset me at the time) but honestly I don’t remember it being that traumatizing and the feeling of panic that I feel in these spaces is very different. Is it possible that I’m just a person prone to panicking or am I just secretly traumatized from that or something? I don’t know what wrong with me.

17F. I consider myself straight but I never really like guys in real life and I’ve never fantasized about being intimate with one; it honestly feels gross to me. But sometimes I’ll get a celebrity crush on a man and it feels so intense. It lasts months (and when it ends it immediately happens with someone else) and it feels like my life would be perfect they just cared about me and I could be around them. Obviously I know that that is parasocial and I would never delude myself or do anything drastic. But nevertheless it impacts my mental health and I was just wondering if anybody knows what this is? Is this normal?