Hey everyone I'm Maddy and I'm 18 years old. As you can tell I like soccer and hockey. I give great advice to my friends so thats why i decided to start an advice column. Please feel free to ask questions and I will try to answer them the best I can. Thnx!!!
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Okk. is a honda considered a "cute" car? cause i think there cute and very reliable...and im really not sure which one to get the accord. or the civic. and then theres all sorts of types..hybrid coupe sedan etc. anyone know a car that would be good for a 16 year old. my mom is gonna sign for me to get a car cause she believes i can make the payments for it and now i dont know what to get!?!? help please. i think i like the accords but im not sure.. (link)
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my dad has the honda civic and loves it. i think its cute too. its really reliable and like the safest car. i would go with the civic, but the 2006 one.
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The problem I have is speaking in front of people. I get sweaty, nervous, my heart starts beating, and I just can't talk. How do I cure this? Is there a possible way to overcome it? Or am I stuck with it for life?
I'm a 14 year old male. (link)
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HA this is me. my hands starting sweating and my face turns red. you just have to try and breathe slowly and concetrate on it. plus think about the worst thing that can happen while talking to people. for example if you were making a speech in front of your class, the worst thing that can happen is just..well hardly anything. just calm down.
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ok. i know this is like the third ocd post, but i have been mening to post this. what is ocd exactly? because i think i might have it.
-sometimes i make myself breathe a certain way, to like make a pettern
-i have to tap sonthing or touch it to make a noise pattern.
its mostly things like with patterns and stuff. and i cant stop it. Once, It all stopped for like 6 months, and i dont know if it was a oincedence, but in that period of time, i had stopped reading. then when i started to read books again it started up again. thanks for your time.
~Ank (link)
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OCD- obbsessive Compulsive Disorder
yeah you probably have ocd, and its totally normal for it to come and go. read the other answer i gave on ocd. you have to resist the compulsions. do not tap something, do not breathe a weird way to make a pattern, just breath normally. your anxiety will come up, and it will stay that way for a while, and then it will come down. but once it comes down its a good thing because youve accomplisdhed fighting against the urge to tap stuff.
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I had those little rhinestones that you can get from Claire's on my cell phone. Well they started to get old so I tried to peel them all off.
Now the sticky glue stuff that held them on is all over the back of my phone and I can't get it off. I've tried several different things but nothing can get the glue off. Do any of you know how to get it off? Please help, my cell phone looks disgusting noww! (link)
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goo gone its good 4 that kinda stuff
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Lately I have been under a lot of stress from finals and other things. In the past two weeks I have passed out 4 times. How much blood do you ussually have to lose before passing out and what could be other causes of this? I'm 14 and relatively healthy. (link)
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ya passing out is not good, especially 4 times, i dont know how much blood you loose, but i recomend seeing a doc.
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ok i no theres like a zillon ocd posts but i really need help with this.
i think i have ocd i have to count everything and touch everything 5 times until its perfect and i think if i dont touch it i will die. i no this is stupid and yaa and like if my shoes arnt right i have to fix them, but my mom doesnt believe that i had ocd shes like if you did then the teachers or the doctor would of pointed it out. what do i do? (link)
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yes yes, you have ocd. don't worry, you wont die if you don't touch it. but what you ahve to do is resist your urge to do these compulsions. i know its hard, but you really have to resist it. your anxiety will come up and you'll feel really uncomfortable, but within time, the anxiety will come down and you will feel back to normal. it make take a while, but you have to let your anxiety come down no matter how much you want to constantly touch things five times. believe me, if you keep resisting the temptations, you will get better. i kno this stuff, so if you need any more help, drop one in my inbox!!!!
btw tell your mom you need maybe a therapist if you cant resist this stuff alone. you can always look up a website on ocd and show it to her.
follow my advice and i hope you get better!!!!
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my cat is very mean. she has weird hair ball on her back. i tried having her shaved but she bites everyone. any body know what these things are on her back and how to get them off? I rate 5's (link)
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uhh clumps of hair
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There is this one girl at my school who is basically my shadow. But not in a good way. Her main goal in life is to beat me at everything I do, which also means doing everything I do. I play the cello, and so does she, but I, not to brag, am better, so she gets very competitive about that. And since we met, she has decided to play piano, "volleyball," "guitar," and "sing," all of which I have been doing before we met. The reason I put quotation marks is because she does't do either of those things, but she just says she does. What should I do to make her get her own life?
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jus go and tell her to stop copying you and to be an individual.
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Lately, our family has hit a financial problem. Today I was told something very shocking(sorry..but not going to say it). It hit me that, maybe, I need a job to atleast help my family and me a little bit. I know you guys get this question alot, but I seriously never thought I would need to find a job at such a young age. If you guys can answer a couple of questions it'll help me ALOT.
1) What jobs can I find at 15?? (Please be specific)
2) How much money SHOULD I get? Like,minimum wage? How much is that suppose to be? And what do I do if it isn't the minimum?
3) Do I even have a chance??
Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Really (link)
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I Know that minimum wage is about 6 bucks an hour, and you might be able to get a job at like a grocery store, or some sort of small shop. You can always try babysitting! I hope your family's financial problem gets worked out. i wish you the best!
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My ex-best friend Hana and I used to be really close, but ever since she went down to visit her cousin (who is pretty slutty herself) she's been acting like the only thing that matters in the world is how good she looks. It was really starting to piss me off, so I told her. She blew it off like it was nothing, which made me angrier. So, now she's started hanging out with two other girls that are known as sluts at our school, and they've really been annoying me. She pretty much dropped me for them, which made me sad. Now since she's found out that her only friends are the other two sluts, she's been trying to be friends with me again. I don't know if I should accept her friendship or not because it really made me angry how she dropped me like that. She hasn't even said sorry... Now since she's been hanging out with those two girls, I haven't talked to her at all. It really makes me sad that we're not friends anymore because we used to be able to tell eachother anything. I've made new friends, but in a way I miss my old one. If you have any advice for me then that would be awesome! Thanks (link)
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if she confront you abut becopming frends again, be bold and say something like, " look you were the one deciding to not be friends anymore and it will be long before you can gain my trust back, and You'll have to work for your friendship." Make sure that she knows you are serious and telling ehr that you dont want it to happen again. If she still wants to be your friend, but is still acting like a slut, then simply tell her, thats its not your style. hope i helped and good luck!
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my hair is poofy whenever i blow dry my hair when i wash it. believe me when i say its poofy.. so i heard that when you scrunch your hair after you wash it ..it will work and be curly but i have tried it a billion times scrunching it and when it air dries or even when i blowdry it with it scrunched.. its poofy and it doesnt look as good as others.. so what is something i could do so when i scrunch it, it wont come out poofy (link)
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for some reason i thought he word poofy was the funniest thing. i started laughing. wow im sad. haha ok well, maybe u need to use like a smoothing serum or a gel that wont cause flakes.
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OK, im trying to lose weight around my theigh and ab area, so i was wonderin what diets actually worked, and i was hoping peole could give me like what to eat and not to eat and stuff..thank you very much, ill rate high for any useful info (link)
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u may be dehydrated, when you want a junk food snack try water. DO NOT and i repeat DO NOT drink diet coke it is crap. aspartame, also known as artificial sweetner, is bad for you. so many ingredients in diet drinks are cancer causing. dont get me rong you wont get cancer by a diet coke a week, but still, i mean doesn't the words artificial sweetner jsut make u want to not drink it?
ok sorry bout that i am annoyed by diet sodas :] cut out the junk. eat whole grain breads, no white breads. no skippy peanut butter, all natural, possibly organic if you can. no junk food.
and i repeat no diet sodas!
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well...im 13 (female) and i had this biyfriend last year...and we were really close...but we broke up...and we were friends for a while....but then he told me that he hated me...and now im really sad..and a while ago he called me to tell me about a movie..but then he said he had to go...and now im always thinkin about him....and i miss him as a friend....what should i do (link)
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talk to him about it
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what do you guys consider to be "popular? "
do you think someone that everyone knows of
(as in if sum1 said their name they would automatically know who your talkin about)
or someone who has a large group of friends?
(somone who hangs out with like 15 friends)
this is for a health project, those were questions to ask but let me know what you consider to be "popular" if you dont think its either i rate high thanx alot! (link)
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i think both, btu usually ones who have lots of friends and could easily say hi to at least half the people in the hallway at your school.
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i have cryed myself to sleep for the past 2 years EVERY single night. i cry out of nowhere and get upset for ansolutely no reason at all (that i know of) no matter how hard i try to be i'm barely ever happy. i don't bother people about this because i don't even know what's going on so why tell them unless i know what it's about. i used to cut and i've counted 51 noticable scars from it but i've stopped my old habits for my boyfriend. i'm not one of those people who like to bother others about my life and my problems because i don't like having people constantly worry about me or think that somethings going on in my personal life. there are some people i can talk to about this but they would worry and i can't stand it because i dont want to be the person people are always worried about. but i cry every single night for no reason most of the time and i try so hard not to but i can't hold them back.. i don't understand myself anymore (link)
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well, i think you shuld talk to ur aprents/guardian or maybe a school counsler. it may be ahrd to open up..but it culd be for the better. wen you feel liek crying..maybe turn on the tv and watch a funny tv show or sumthin. i hope i helped!
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hey guyss! i have this "beauty mark" on my face near my lip and i know people dont care about it and some think its "awsome" but i hate it with a passion and i will probably end up getting it removed if my mom lets me but is there any other way of convering it good ther than loads of foundation or bronzer?? thankssss (link)
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omg i have the same beauty mark on my lip, it will soon fade as mine was ruby red when i was born and now people rarely notice it. i actually kinda like it because it feels part of me. you can either fel that way or hate it. so if you hate it, removing it i think will hurt, because when i was little, i wanted it removed too. but i talked out of it. dont use too much concealer or people will notice. maybe like those powder foundations so its not as thick as cream. hope i helped!!!
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what are some signals that you can tell if a guy likes you (link)
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grrrrrrrrr ok last time this ques is posted ok so :
smiles @ you
stares at you
talks to you alot
stares into your eyes
laughs alot
blushes
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my friend likes this boy and i think and everyone else think hes gay for example he only had girls as friends and he cares tooooo much of how he looks but hes really cool and everyhting everyone loves him as a friend.but is it weird that my friend likes him? (link)
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no he might be a metro sexual. thats where guys liek to dress nicely and liek to shop at places like pottery barn yet they still liek women. i learned that from my science teacher. lol weird huh?
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i intend to pull out my hair for some reason and i dont know why. im only 13. i dont want to go bald. what is causing this? what should i do? (link)
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anxiety. you might have obsessive cumpulsive disorder. whenever you pull your hair out, ask yourself what your thinking of when you pull you hair out. maybe your nervous for a test so you start pulling it out.
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So I have the worst stomache in the history of man. Now, thinking back to elementary school, the Nurse always recommended a saltine cracker or two. QUESTION IS: WHY was that? Was is something SPECIFIC about the CRACKER? And is there any other food the average household stocks that can beat this intense pain? I will be soo thankful of helpful answers - this pain is sooo bad it could ultimately take my life. =/ gr. (link)
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go to a docter!!!!! but yes usually crackers help upset stomachs becasue the bread or yeast or wutever eases your stomach.
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