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

troebia wrote: ↑May 14th, 2024, 2:17 pm Sorry for not being more active on the forum anymore, there is so much to do with the grove now in spring.

Please take care, Troebia, and thanks for the reply

I don't know if because of the abuse and neglect from my parents, I am tolerating abuse from my wife. I don't know if I still am convinced that I am unlovable. I don't know if because of my ADHD and depression I deserve the abuse because those mental illnesses make me lazy and irresponsible.

This is the kind of thing that made my last therapist mildly annoyed when I said it but you do eventually get used to it. this makes me even more mad, that your therapist would not see their job #1 as being your advocate. i am glad you are hear, i hope you get a lot of value out of it, you deserve ...

Everyone is too on edge about the people we know are lurking for the sole purpose of trying to connect our vent posts or chat messages to our real life identities. There's been an ongoing issue of people who think they're "helping keep others safe" infiltrating those spaces for that purpo...

So back to the vet to staple him back together, and also got a massive telling off by wife and daughter. He's fine now after ten more days. This symbolises why I feel I can never relax fully, never let down my guard. It's the permanent sense of hypervigilance and anxiety that drains me. I can never...

Feel depressed because had a fight with my wife. Her temper is like a 3rd person in our marriage

Autism spectrum, depression, ADHD - as a package - really sucks

especially depression & ADHD, i want to accomplish all sorts of things, but i am shit at getting anything done

yes, hang in there, Mental Fairy, sending you all the love and good vibes

Please take care, Mental Fairy, we are sending you all the good vibes

Mental Fairy wrote: ↑April 29th, 2024, 1:09 pm I do missing river girl and Oak.

my goal is that if they ever come back, even years later, i'll still be here

wow, amazing stuff, photos and such storytelling!

Thanks so much for all this, Mental Fairy!