Is it? All I’ve ever heard is that whether you’re experiencing symptoms is completely irrelevant, which makes sense since the symptoms are triggered by the innate (non-specific) response and immunity is the adaptive (specific) response. Those are from what I’ve heard more or less completely independent.

Depends. Judging by the articles I’ve read on the subject they’d be exempt due to being TV shows and not movies. But who knows with Trump?

I don’t think you’re disregarding me, your concerns are valid and natural. It sounds like you’re having a tough time emotionally right now, just in a different way than before.

It honestly doesn’t sound like it would be healthy for you to pursue a relationship right now. You clearly have feelings for your friend, and while you logically know it can’t happen, you’re not quite over her emotionally. Getting into a relationship, or even dating, someone else at the moment isn’t healthy for you, and also isn’t fair to the person you’d be dating. You need to work on getting over your friend first, before adding more people to the mix.

Do you have a therapist? You hopefully do, considering your history of suicidal ideation. If you have upcoming therapy sessions, I suggest bringing your crush on your engaged friend up to your therapist, and they might be able to help you process things. You might also want to dial down your interactions with that friend for a while.

When you feel ready to put yourself out there, I would personally not try to approach anyone at work. If it happens naturally that’s okay, but I would personally prefer not to mix my dating and professional life if I could avoid it. Maybe there is some activity you could do once or twice a week where you’d meet people? I met my wife at an event at a local climbing gym. There are also dance classes, mountaineering clubs, art or pottery classes, and other activities which you might enjoy while meeting women with similar interests.

It’s not you, dating is just awful. I suggest not doing it. You’ve entered relationships before without dating, you can do it again. I have personally found that I’m a lot more attractive when I’m not actively trying to woo someone.

They’re conducted by calling people who answer the phone when an unknown number calls. So boomers.

Eh, not just America. Both France and Germany are seeing a rise in right-wing ideologies, not to mention the countries where they’re already in power.

It’s okay, they don’t want research. They’re happy as soon as the sweatshops are domestic.