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

I know what you mean, I've never even bothered with online dating despite being intensely lonely for a few years. It all seems like a superficial game in which the objective is to prove to the world how desirable you are instead of actually trying to make real and honest connections with other peopl...

Weekends are the worst, they've always been the worst. What the hell am I supposed to do with myself on a weekend?

I'm unemployed and looking for a job right now. I really want to get a job where I work weekends, preferably long hours on weekends.

I'm currently taking Lexapro, which I've been on for 2 months. I'm on 7.5mg right now but I will probably increase that next week when I see my psychiatrist. Lexapro has helped significantly with my anxiety, but has not had any effect on my depression. Last week I cut my dose of xanax in half, which...

Thank you for making this thread! When I started having panic attacks about 18 months ago I would sometimes wake up with hives all over my body and I had no idea what they were. Usually they were on my hands and legs, sometimes chest, and itched like crazy. The strangest thing was they would disappe...

So, is the fear that the bug will have crawled up your asshole, or, that the doctor treating you will think you're nuts? Both, it's a multi-level fear! As for your third "fear," uhm, might I recommend one of those inflatable punching bags for children ... Nah, I've punched plenty of non-f...

I love swatting a fly in midair. Calmly and silently tracking it with my eyes until it buzzes right into my strike zone and then BOOM. It's a great feat of hand-eye coordination. Apologies to the hardcore animal lovers out there. I love the 4 or 5 minutes of calm and quiet right after I wake up in t...

Elizabeth, Thanks for taking the time to register an account here just to respond to me. I wish you all the best with your struggles. I've been seeing a therapist for almost a year now, but I haven't really talked about everything regarding my mother. Part of it is that it's too weird and anxiety pr...

I fear when I'm taking a shit that a tiny bug will crawl or fly into my asshole causing some kind of infection and I'll get really really sick and have to go to the hospital and when they run the tests they'll say I have this serious infection and the doctors start asking me questions about how I mi...

I started listening to the podcast a few months ago, and I've been going through the archives. The episode with Phil Hendrie really got to me. Not that my mother was "abusive", but I realized that there was definitely a pattern of inapropriate behavior that I had previously only remembered...