var title = 'Psychology and Mental Health Forum Psychology Feed';
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		var time = 'Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:31:58 -0400';

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		data[0]['title'] = 'AvPD, SAD, lack of eye contact, and fear of being touched?';
		data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/avpd_sad_lack_of_eye_contact_and_fear_of_being_touched%CA%94_c-3_u-235406_b-5338.html';
		data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/avpd_sad_lack_of_eye_contact_and_fear_of_being_touched%CA%94_c-3_u-235406_b-5338.html';
		data[0]['username'] = 'Ashley_kate23';
		data[0]['blog_id'] = '5338';
		data[0]['blog_message'] = 'I was diagnosed with AvPD and SAD and I was wondering if anyone has a horrible problem with eye contact and being touched?<br />I have never been able to make eye contact unless I absolutely felt like it was necessary so that I didn&#039;t seem rude. <br />I can&#039;t make eye contact with my dad no matter what and I can barely make eye contact with my mom. <br /><br />I also have a hard time dealing with being touched. When someone accidentally touches me, I literally cringe. I then feel like I need to go wash whatever part they touched me. I can&#039;t be touched by my dad because it just feels horrible! If he touches me, I feel like I&#039;m going to cry. I&#039;m okay with my mom touching me SOMETIMES, but she doesn&#039;t want to touch me because she has issues of her own. <br />I just hate being touched so much. Hugs and hand shaking are horrifying for me. <br />I want to get over this, but at the same time I just really don&#039;t want to ever be touched.';
		data[0]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:23:31 -0400';
		

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		data[1]['title'] = 'Have i become addicted to sex or has my boyfriend lost interest?';
		data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/have_i_become_addicted_to_sex_or_has_my_boyfriend_lost_interest%CA%94_c-3_u-363285_b-10223.html';
		data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/have_i_become_addicted_to_sex_or_has_my_boyfriend_lost_interest%CA%94_c-3_u-363285_b-10223.html';
		data[1]['username'] = 'Lipsydoll';
		data[1]['blog_id'] = '10223';
		data[1]['blog_message'] = 'So this is my first ever post out into the deep dark internet, but there&#039;s an issue I&#039;m my life and my relationship that I honestly don&#039;t feel I can talk to about with anyone, like not him.. none of my friends.. so here I am turning to complete strangers. <br /><br />So me and my boyfriend have been together 6 months now, we met on tinder and we hit it off like a house on fire straight away! He is one of the best people I have ever met, I&#039;m super attracted to him and he actually wants to spend all his time with me which is more than I can say for any of my exes and we have had a great relationship thus far, except for one thing... So I have felt increasingly upset about this as time has gone on, like when we first got together we were exploring each other emotionally and also sexually, and with him being 9 years older than myself, he had a lot more sexual experience than me and he has introduced me to some new areas such an anal and general bum play which I have loved! So the first bit of our relationship, sexually this has been amazing.. but over the last couple of months he has become more tired and less interested in having sex with me, he has never been one to kiss me lots but again in the last couple of months this has diminished into giving me a peck in the morning before he goes to work.. and unless we are actually having sex, I don&#039;t get kisses off him.. he doesn&#039;t ever just snog me, and this hurts. Whenever I talk to him about it I just get &#039;I&#039;m not a lovey dovey kind of person&#039; or &#039;I&#039;m not a snoggy type of person&#039; which is ok, well its not ok.. because from where I&#039;m standing I literally just crave so much more! Since loosing 6-7 stone over the past year I feel my sex drive has sky rocketed and I find myself wanting sex all the time, whenever I&#039;m with him I just want to ###$ him and him do bad things to me, and when I&#039;m alone.. I touch myself. When I&#039;m alone and when I&#039;m not busy I am constantly masturbating, I make myself cum sometimes 3-4 times a day when I have that chance. And so when I&#039;m with this man who makes me so happy and who I am sexually attracted to immensely, I just want him.. and I feel that he doesn&#039;t want me as hard as I want him. When we get into bed and he makes his excuses, bats my hand away from him and tells me he&#039;s tired, I cant help but feel gutted.. I feel deflated, it kills me inside and I have to pretend like its okay and roll over and go to sleep when in fact I&#039;m so hurt. Now, please understand when I say we do have quite regular sex, sometimes we can go a few times in a day, but on average I would say about 4 times a week.. sometimes a lot more? Now, this is where I think I have a slight addiction.. because it doesn&#039;t seem to be enough, I want to feel that intimacy so much more, maybe its because I don&#039;t get the little kisses throughout the day or even that passionate snog in the car before we go for dinner.. He is not the romantic type and unfortunately this massively shows, he never tells me I&#039;m beautiful or says romantic things to me, or does anything romantic, and well 6 months in and he hasn&#039;t told me he loves me. I understand people go at different paces but due to this, I&#039;m left wanting more.. and I&#039;m having wondering thoughts, I&#039;m lusting after anyone at the moment and I hate myself because actually the one person I want the absolute most is my boyfriend. I have tried talking to him, and I just don&#039;t seem to get anywhere.. He doesn&#039;t have much to say and just comes back with the normal &#039;I&#039;m just not the romantic type&#039; and  &#039;I&#039;m just so tired from work&#039;. I feel like he isn&#039;t fully into me? Only apart from the fact he actually wants to see me all the time and literally does anything for me, he looks after me and makes me feel safe, and happy.. But where is my romance? I am a woman, with an incredibly high sex drive who just wants my man to have sex with me all the time and tell me I&#039;m ######6 beautiful!';
		data[1]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:27:37 -0400';
		

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		data[2]['title'] = 'Is this Hocd anymore?';
		data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/is_this_hocd_anymore%CA%94_c-3_u-466025_b-12760.html';
		data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/is_this_hocd_anymore%CA%94_c-3_u-466025_b-12760.html';
		data[2]['username'] = 'Hi12123';
		data[2]['blog_id'] = '12760';
		data[2]['blog_message'] = 'Sorry this is very long but please read this because i need help...<br />Hi, I am a 16 year old girl and have been struggling with hocd for about 2 years. It all started in 7th grade when I had an intense crush on a boy. Whenever I was around him I had butterflies and I actually wanted to marry him. He liked me too but he soon developed a crush on another girl and I wasn&#039;t even jealous because I didn&#039;t like him as much anymore. One night I was at a sleepover with my friend and I was laying on the couch when a thought popped into my head, &quot;you don&#039;t like **** anymore, are you gay?&quot; After that one thought, it has changed my life. ( I am not homophobic but I was always kinda uncomfortable around gay people at that age. But now I am not at homophobic or uncomfortable around gay people anymore)<br /><br />A couple weeks later, I was seeking reassurance on being lesbian and stumbled across the term hold. I had all of the symptoms and felt better. But, the worrying didn&#039;t stop. In 7th grade I was only scared about &quot;becoming&quot; gay, I knew i wasn&#039;t but I was just scared i was &quot;changing&quot; into being gay. I went to my school guidance counselor and she told me that it was ok if I was gay and should learn to accept it, this heightened my worrying because I couldn&#039;t handle the fact of being gay. There were times where I was not worrying and then times where I was. After a while of being worried I didn&#039;t worry about it at all. I had some thoughts here and there but ignored them. It was the start of 8th grade (the grade I am in now) and I didn&#039;t worry about it. Then it was triggered again, (I forgot how). Soon my mind made me think I had crushes on every single one of my friends (who were girls). My mind said &quot;If you aren&#039;t attracted to him, you&#039;re gay.&quot; It also started to change my past and say &quot;you like her&quot; even when I felt nothing for her when I was with her. Recently, I had a small panic attack at a restaurant where i couldn&#039;t eat any single thing (not even a small piece of rice) because I was worrying so much. My mind kept screaming &quot;your bi!...&quot; That night at the restaurant I planned to come out to my mom (my mom knows about my hocd) but the problem was that I didn&#039;t like any girls. I would also look at my friends (who were girls) and become jealous of them because they do not have to go what I go through. I would say in my head, &quot;they are so lucky that they are straight. They are going to have the best relationship&quot; <br /><br />I then began to dig into my past (i still am) and there are some things that I have done as a child that i can use as proof that I am gay. Keep in mind that I have never been attracted to anyone of the same sex besides false attractions (which is not even real attraction). My mind would also say &quot;All the girls think your older brother is cute, but you don&#039;t. This means your gay.&quot; And now that I am writing that, what on Earth was I thinking, am i stupid? Lol. I would also have false attractions for people on TV shows and have dreams and wake up feeling aroused and feeling that I liked it. I know that arousal doesn&#039;t mean your gay so it doesn&#039;t worry me at all.<br /><br />I know that I like boys but I am just scared that I like girls to. I always wanted to have a boyfriend but now I do not as much. My mind is now saying &quot;being with a girl isn&#039;t so bad.&quot; &quot;it will be fun to be in a relationship with a girl&quot; I have never dreamed about girls the way I have dreamed about boys and the only relationship I want with girls is friendship. But as i am writing this my mind is saying, &quot;you wouldn&#039;t mind it, it would be fun!&quot; Whenever I go out, it is just natural for me to want to impress a guy. I have never wanted to dress to impress a girl. I cant picture my future with a girl because its just not me. I also don&#039;t think it is necessary to come out because deep down I know i&#039;m not.<br />I used to have bad intrusive thoughts, but now those thoughts aren&#039;t even...<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/is_this_hocd_anymore%CA%94_c-3_u-466025_b-12760.html" class="postlink-local">[ Continued ]</a>';
		data[2]['blog_time'] = 'Sat, 27 Apr 2019 03:06:40 -0400';
		

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		data[3]['title'] = 'Nurses who stutter';
		data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/nurses_who_stutter_c-3_u-249126_b-5904.html';
		data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/nurses_who_stutter_c-3_u-249126_b-5904.html';
		data[3]['username'] = 'harmony87';
		data[3]['blog_id'] = '5904';
		data[3]['blog_message'] = 'Hello,<br />I am new to this forum. I was wondering if there is anyone else in this forum who is in the healthcare field and has a stutter? i consider myself a mild stutterer bc I have days where I am very fluent.';
		data[3]['blog_time'] = 'Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:20:51 -0500';
		

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		data[4]['title'] = 'overprotective parents';
		data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/overprotective_parents_c-3_u-253296_b-6264.html';
		data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/overprotective_parents_c-3_u-253296_b-6264.html';
		data[4]['username'] = 'claudiam1999';
		data[4]['blog_id'] = '6264';
		data[4]['blog_message'] = 'so im a teen, a girl, and i have overprotective parents, and by overprotective , i mean embarrassingly overprotective. my dad is more laid back and will let me do more things and go to more places, but my mum is the main issue. if i ask to go somewhere, i have to ask my mum. its like my dad has no input on my social life what so ever. <br /><br />recently i have been talking to a boy that i like and we have been getting on well. he is really nice and i would love to get closer to him. but obviously my mum is getting in the way of that. she wont let me go to a boys house even if its for a couple of hours or for dinner and if a boy comes over she wont let us go upstairs which is pretty embarrassing. i dont want to have a sexual relationship with a boy at this age but my mum doesnt seem to trust me and its really bringing me down.<br /><br />whenever i talk to a boy im scared to get close to them because i know my mum will mess things up. i feel like im not allowed to talk to a boy or to have a boyfriend. i mean, im a teen, obviously im going to be talking to boys or wanting to have a boyfriend but my mum gets in the way of everything.<br /><br />its not even just with boys, its with everything! she only likes about 3 of my friends and she will let me stay at their houses but if its someone she hasnt met or doesnt like she wont let me. like my friend asked me to go to her nans birthday party on the weekend and stay at hers after, and my mum wont let me because she doesnt like her. she ruins everything! i know its cliche that im a teenage girl and saying she ruins my life but she really does. and its bringing me down completely. <br /><br />she wont let me out after dark and i always have a curfew to get home. this boy im talking to doesnt go to my school, but hes the same age as me, so i can only see him on weekends and i cant even see him that long because it gets dark early in the winter and i cant see him after school either so i only ever see him like once a week. he asks me to meet up with him after school sometimes and i always have to come up with an excuse like every other time she says i cant go somewhere. <br /><br />if i ask her to go somewhere or do something she either says &#039;no&#039; straight away or she says &#039;i&#039;ll think about it&#039; and most of the time its a no anyway. im a teenager, she needs to let me go places and experience new things so i can learn from my mistakes. keeping me locked up in the house all the time isnt going to make things any better, its just going to raise me into a liar and make me want to rebel against things. apparently overprotective parents can lead to social anxiety too. i dont know if i have it but im always sad when it comes to my mum and makes me feel depressed. i cry all the time about it and she doesnt care.<br /><br />if i try to explain things like this to her she never listens or understands how i feel. i know shes overprotective because she wants to look out for me and everything but doing this is only going to make things worse. if she let me make mistakes and see right from wrong then i will understand. its not like im going to get raped or mugged if i go out after dark, im only going to be with my friends!<br /><br />i just wish she would understand how i feel and give me a chance. she doesnt trust me and it makes me feel so upset that i dont get opportunities to do anything. <br /><br />im the only friend with an overprotective parent and i feel left out and worthless when my friends talk about all the fun they had when they went out at the weekend or after school without me there because im the girl with the overprotective parent that no one wish they had. <br /><br />dont get me wrong, i love my mum, but she doesnt realise how much this brings me down. and im getting sick of it. i might aswell have no friends or boyfriends or social life until im about 20. <br /><br />please help me to find a solution to this.  <img src="https://www.psychforums.com/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /> <br /><br />thank you.';
		data[4]['blog_time'] = 'Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:24:18 -0500';