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

Wow, that's amazing! I hope you stick around and share more.

Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, and this does have a flow to it -- maybe not perfectly smooth, but neither are those cuts. I love the sounds in the fourth stanza, "And I wondered where they learned to / Resemble vaults / To clench secrets." This is very honest and helps us remember that yes,...

First: Animal Crossing <3 <3 <3 Second: "With social media, everyone's posting everything so I feel sometimes I close up myself and say 'forget it, I'm worthless, I'm not really needed, these other people can do it instead.'" I related to that SO much. I've stopped using social media for t...

Oh! And my favorite line of Paul's during this episode: "I don't look good in humility; I'm a winter."

Just finished last week's episode with Tiffany and I love her. The part of the interview that touched me the most was when she talked about suitcases and how important it was to have one. You could hear the emotion in her voice as she described using garbage bags to hold all her clothes when going t...

There's so much in those two little words... "it hurts."

I'm certainly guilty of fast-forwarding through the advertisements on the podcasts, but sometimes the things are actually interesting. But if you're a lazy piece of shit like I am, you put off visiting the website and forget what the referral code or URL is. So I thought to myself, maybe there shoul...

One of the things they tell you when you have a friend/family member who finds out they have cancer is to never say "I know how you feel," because unless you have cancer too, well... you don't. I think that also applies to mental illness. Everyone's experiences are different, and there's n...

I can totally relate, duck. One of my favorite quotes is by the author Albert Camus, and translates to something like: "nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." I think you're just very sensitive. Not necessarily in a touchy-feely way or anything -- j...

Hey again Bryce. Your fear list makes breaks my heart. Like I said before, you're not alone. And people do care -- at least I do. *hug*