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

Everything couldn't be more wrong if I actually tried. All my relationships are gone. I feel like I am always there to help others and yet always getting the shaft myself. The one that has me down currently is my 'best friend'/roommate. She has a new bf who is trying to freeze me out. I've known bot...

I dont have any pointers, but I completely empathize. Im going through the same thing here. Ive been applying to low cost therapists and just for insurance in general and keep getting turned down or my case file is lost or they just dont pick up the phone. I got turned away from a crisis center. I g...

Ive been deteriorating rapidly. Today I went to a crisis center. They told me to come back monday because there was no supervisor. I was really honest about my unwanted thoughts, emotions, stress level, hopelessness, living situation, history, etc. but nothing. Well I guess a slip of paper with a su...

My longest, even in the depths of depression isn't very long. Couple days. Im too sensitive to smells, they make me nauseous. My roommate on the other hand, has gone so long that people told me they wouldn't come over anymore. I've seen people retreat from her with looks of revulsion and people have...

Thank you, that means a lot. Ive been trying. I keep trying to get in to see someone, even when I keep getting denied. There has been so much rejection. Other people try the same things and will get approved or whatever right away but I always seem to be the one getting passed over. My last applicat...

Background: Age 5 my dad was jailed for raping my older half sister for years. I was in counseling for that for a year but I didn't like the therapist and wouldn't speak. I didn't speak to my biological father again. I was diagnosed at 7 ('89) with clinical depression and was put on Prozac for aroun...

I know some will understand and some wont, but that's ok. Ive already been having a hard time lately. Things are not going right, everything is a struggle. Within the last week my relationship ended because my mental burden is too much for him to want to deal with even though I edited the severity o...

YES!! All the time. Every little pain I've ever had comes back when I'm depressed and stressed. When my stress or emotions are too high, I often vomit or am extremely nauseous. I feel like the depression also makes me heal or recover more slowly. My entire energy level and mood both drop to nothing....

I lived through that too. I had abuse from other family members, but it was my mother who effected me the most. Childhood emotional neglect is a real thing. Abuse isn't just physical, the mental abuse is often the worst part. Even now at 32 we have pretty much zero relationship, she emails me every ...

So I have never been in the military, but was looking at this topic because my roommate was Army and your thread because my dad was on a sub as well. He was a marine corpsman on a sub but I can't remember which boat, in the late 70s and early 80s. That's what attracted me but I found so much of what...