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

RE: Loneliness I sort of talked about this with my therapist. She keeps using the word "attachment". My "attachment" is screwed up. I am supposed to accept that this is out of my control, but I am finding it difficult. Maybe I need Robin Williams to scream in my face, "it's ...

Thanks guys, that helped me out just now. I was feeling really...tumultuous.

I feel like an abandoner, although I'm not sure anyone here misses me. I started conversations I never finished. Very bad internet etiquette. I was, at one time, VERY VERY invested in an internet forum, during a time when I was learning and growing- at 18 yrs old (the first time I even knew that int...

I don't think addiction makes a person an asshole. Not always. Some of us will wake up with a hangover and feel like a piece of crap and we're the only one who feels like that about us. We're the only one who hates us. Maybe we're not assholes when we're drunk. Basically, sometimes our problems aren...

Dan, I love that you always get me. And of course I appreciate the nice words you say about me! Thank you. :) Regarding the intellectual choice thing, I dunno. Sometimes I think it's the fact that we can be weirdly hyper aware and detached as a (depressed, etc.) species, so that when something comes...

I found this episode to be really relatable. Nikki's comments about her eating disorder hit really close to home. The night before I listened to her episode, I was curled up in bed crying about hating myself and my body. Then I listen, and she talks about the same exact experience. I mean, I dunno i...

I'm sorry things went so badly for you, FK. My first experience with therapy was pretty bad, in my opinion. My therapist and I had no connection. She seemed cold and annoyed by my reluctance in the very beginning of the process. Once, I didn't understand that she was asking me to actually write thin...

Thanks for your touching responses, guys. I felt like such shit about myself I couldn't even come back to the forum for some reason. I just opened the website now, actually, and closed it cuz I...well I just kind of hate me right now. But, reading this actually made me feel better. I feel so stupid ...

I obsess over my weight all of the time and I really feel like a worthless piece of shit because of it. Not the obsession, but the weight. I don't like seeing people who knew me when I was thinner. I try to avoid it. And, also, I really really hate when people tell me I'm just "natural" an...

Anyone try any natural remedies before? I tried St. John's Wort as a teenager to try and treat some depression symptoms without my parents knowing, without any seeming affect. I had some the other day and I had mood swings for a couple of days. It could be a coincidence, as I have had mood swings to...