YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

My anger control issues are much better than they have been in the past, and sometimes I should get angry, but then beat myself up for it. I'm not good at just gracefully walking away from bad situations -- I wait too long, because I am afraid of change or worry that it's my fault, or that i could t...

Dear Carmlin89, Any professional plastic surgeon will not operate on you if you are a minor and experiencing anxiety about your looks due to bullying, without having you talk to a counselor first. You can talk to their counselor but I HIGHLY suggest you talk to an independent one. Bullying is NOT a ...

This is just a vent: My family is a failure -- it's every man for himself, since there are two completely narcissistic parents. Now that I'm 60, I've pretty much given up, because trying to do anything with anyone is just too difficult and upsetting. I can tolerate an afternoon with my mom, and mayb...

ARRGGHHHH!!!!!!! Ok, I need to vent so I can sleep. I rent a studio space to teach in which is kind of a dump, but is the best thing I can find in the city for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, other groups rent adjoining spaces and play the most stupid music which I abhore at an ear-deafening lev...

All I can say is that if you are having that much fear and anxiety about your parents, and you are either not in therapy or on meds or both, then you are depriving yourself of years of your life, and forcing yourself to live in misery. Like I said in my post, I never really got it until I went on La...

Hey, bot: Your post brought tears to my eyes. I read your "screed" back in January and it hurt my heart to hear your pain, because I've been there. I am so fucking glad you're feeling even a little bit better. I really am.

Hah! I meant learning to be myself WITHOUT fear in my life . . . Yes, I definitely have to plan ahead in order to limit the amount of time I have to recover from a family event. I make sure that I don't spend too much time with them. I leave when I need to (bye folks, gotta go, big day at work tomor...

I suffer from life long depression and anxiety. I didn't even know I had anxiety until if fully bloomed last October when I developed Atrial Fibrillation due to a very upsetting conflict with a violent neighbor. I had been on Zoloft for years and had gone off it several months before. I went to a ne...

All last night I coujldn't stop thinking about killing myself. I couldn't get to sleep until 2:30. I even looked up buying a cheap handgun on the internet. And I cut on myself too. I really don't think I can do this any more. Nothing works and you can't really talk me into thinking that it's going t...

I AM SO SICK of irresponsible people!!!!!!!!!!! My agitated depression makes it hard for me to cut slack for the slackers of the world. I spend time cultivating a relationship with a prospective client who then contacts ME to say "Hey, I'm paying you right now for our session tomorrow", an...