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

Hi Huge Tracts of Land (awesome handle, BTW. That movie makes me so happy!) You're definitely not alone in feeling that way re: the 0 reply thing. I also have the flip side of that, where I notice how many encouraging posts a single user has posted and I'm like, "wow, I need to engage more.&quo...

This was a great thread to read - good tips and book recommendations, and inspiring. I'm going to be shifting from self-employment to gainful employment in the next year, so need all the tips I can get.

Hi there. I'm wondering if there are other peeps on here who have/engage in Night Eating Syndrome. Typically, the vicious cycle goes like this: restrict all day, then eat more than 50% of your daily caloric intake for supper, which tends to be later than average, then perhaps eat or snack more till ...

This episode made my heart all squeezey. Learning of Paul's current situation, particularly being separated from his doggies, makes me want to jump on a plane to L.A. and give him a hug and maybe a hot chocolate. I so wish there were such things as magic wands to wave, to heal all ills, to remove al...

Thanks so much, Brownblob and Not A Cylon; I'm kind of relieved that "acceptance" isn't in fact some angels-on-high-type epiphany-type feeling of lightness that mystically overcomes you one day....the fact that acceptance is kind of low key, seeing the facts as they stand, with (at least i...

Thanks very much for the reply, Beany Boo. That's a really good breakdown of how to approach acceptance. I appreciate it!

Happy 2017,
Verne

Hi guys, hope everyone is managing to get thru the end of the year/holidays/etc. Last night was filled with emotional dreams about my dad. He has many of his own neglected mental health issues: depression, fear of intimacy, and when I was 10 he left my mom, my infant sister and I, took off to the ba...

Wonderful episode. What a treat to have an extra long one! Thanks to Celia for her experiences, thanks to Paul for his perspective on current events, and for reading so many surveys! Great stuff.

My thought currently on repeat is: WHY CAN'T I JUST GET MY SHIT TOGETHER? Okay, I'm self-employed, so I'm always worried about earning enough money, so I take on as much work as I possibly can, but then when I do that, I feel panicked because I don't have enough me-time. As the work hours accumulate...

Hi Theresa! Sounds like we have very similar stuff going on. One of my problems is that, since I'm self-employed, I'm not even really able to get a solid diagnosis, because I can't afford psychotherapy. So I'm basically left to my own research and logic to suss out what is going on. Which...isn't th...