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

Very belated thanks to you both for your help. I'm doing much much better now. I was lucky and got in with a psychiatrist who has been following me and gave me Mirtazapine to sleep, which works, and Escitalopram which I've been for about 5 weeks. The constant fear is now gone and I feel my old self ...

Thank you so much Paul. I'm starting to think that my current condition is very heavily weighted in the direction of anxiety instead of depression. Because I feel like I cannot sleep at all because I am consumed by fear. All the time. I would love the release of sleep so that I didn't feel this cons...

Thanks so much for writing back, Paul. I'm finding daily life very difficult and am leaning hard on people like my mom and my husband. I'm getting treated now with antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication, so I must be doing the right thing? I am about to fill in my form and send it to my work sa...

Hi everyone, I'm writing this as I kill time waiting for my first appointment with a counsellor. I have had a few bouts of depression/anxiety in the past, but for the past nine years everything has been fine without any medication. Recently, I had a pretty insignificant trigger event (job interview)...

I live in Canada, so this might not help you, but I did go on disability for depression. It was basically the same thing as getting employment insurance. My doctor had to vouch for me and I received a little more than half of my salary from the government just like as if I had been laid off and was ...