Dear Katie:

Your second post is about your compulsion to check your obsession, to get more and more input regarding your nose from a different angle, you want me to tell you that you shouldn’t take your cousin’s comment about your nose and the other girl’s comment regarding your forehead seriously for whatever reason. So I wont respond to it further, because like you stated yourself: “I ask the same question over and over. I just want somebody to say ‘your nose is not big ‘ but I’ve been told that many times, and I am never happy with it“.

Regarding your first post, can you answer specifically and factually the following two questions:

1. What exactly did your teachers in pre-school and grammar school say or do to you that caused you to feel “shy, anxious, and very sad”?

2. What is it that your mother say and did to you during your first decade of life that caused you to feel shy, anxious and very sad?

(I will soon be away from the computer for a few hours).

anita