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

You wrote about losing hair, getting eczema, etc. after the fact. That isn't at all surprising. It sounds like up until you moved in with your grandparents, you were just living in survival mode. When you no longer needed to be in survival mode, your body finally began reacting to everything you had...

My parents divorced when I was 4, I visited my dad on most weekends, he left on my 15th birthday, and I cut contact with my mother in March 2010. What you describe as parental alienation fits my mother to a T. To be fair, my dad was angry, emotionally absent 99% of the time, obsessed with guns to a ...