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

The way I've only really been able to accept that I was abused was by thinking "Would what happened to me when I was younger, be appropriate for one adult to do to another?" It's weird how we think about children as something different from adults, or at least myself and some others that I...

Really appreciate the sharing RIT, and I won't lie, I found humor in the idea of being lost while working on a program that has to do with mapping and geography. Like your an explorer and get lost in the world, absolutely incredible. I gotta say that the post really vibrated with me, I like to be cr...

This week was absolutely exhausting... I've been working with a counselor for 6 months or so and at one point I discussed with him how my mom cleaned my mouth out with soap and spanked me when I was little. He looked at me shocked and I thought about it and said "This is a pretty common consequ...

Welcome! 1. Such a good username! 2. I’d love to hear more, sometime, about your experience with parkour. Btw, before we heard about actual parkour, back in the 90s MTV Sports had a segment called “Freestyle Walking”. It is a sort of proto-parkour. It is a charming time capsule of a simpler, dumber...

it is funny, when i think about saying "I'm doing my best", i always think of it as a negative... "my best isn't good enough", "my best is pathetic", "my best leave so much undone"... but my therapist said every time i can truthfully say "I'm doing my be...

Hello, I'm Punched, I go by other names online typically but I wanted to keep my anonymity while I get more comfortable here in the forums. I'm a late 20's male who has struggled with anxiety and depression for most of my life, and am also trying to figure out if I'm Bisexual or not as well but that...

I really appreciate your thoughts! Honestly some days I'm alright, but when my anxiety pops in and thoughts start to spiral it is... exhausting, and then I'm just so tired after. Sometimes it helps to know others are experiencing the same things, other times it doesn't :P brains are messy like that ...

I appreciate the thoughts and kindness, Anxiety and depression are such difficult emotions to work around, I feel my self consistently feeling overwhelmed with life but I wanna not feel like that.

Hello, I feel kinda dumb typing this in and honestly terrified to admit these feelings. I recently joined a small but growing discord community and I guess they liked me enough to ask me to help out, me being me I wanted to be known and validated as a "staff" member and show that I work ha...