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

Following up, I guess. Because it's good to talk about things that go well, for any people with reservations about therapy, for instance. I had my first session with a psychotherapist today and it was good. It was a little uncomfortable, because I kept feeling she was too nice, I was wasting her tim...

lol. right? he couldn't shut up.

i almost wrote up a list and posted it right here. i dunno if that's good or bad. probably bad.

I have a fear of medical procedures. I don't think I can trust going under and being in the total care of other people. I was supposed to get a procedure done to prove that I have celiac disease, because the blood tests that currently exist aren't 100% conclusive, ever. But I couldn't do it. The onl...

There's even this new treatment involving magnets: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/transc ... on/MY00185

I dunno, I see my depression and anxiety as absolutely biological. And I don't see it as out of my power to control. Every experience we have is processed through our brains, and our brains are dynamic. We can rewire via experience alone, aka therapy.

i never did that one. yikes. i don't know how i'd feel about that list floating around. hehe. i'd probably be surprised how many i turn up, too. maybe i'll try it my avatar is from the movie antichrist. i often go on obsessive kind of ruts and right now i'm on sapolsky, neil degrasse tyson and kind ...

(Although, as a sidenote, I would feel bad if anyone reading this ruled out meds as a possible source of help.) Yeah, me too. I sorta meant to write that but didn't. I think a tendency for some people who don't get meds and don't get other intervention is to self-medicate with substances known with...

lol, hey i posted this too, having come across independently somewhat recently. this is an amazing lecture. what a talented lecturer this guy is.

It's always good to start the year off puking. lol. Jesus. Happy New Year people. This is the year I "get my shit together". I never made it a resolution before, however I've been trying since age 18. I like the concept of New Years. Fresh start. Number one. I like resolutions, and marking...

I'm sorry the people in your life refuse to show you the love you deserve, Powerpac. You don't sound self pitying. You sound tired.

Send me a message here if you need someone to talk to. I don't like the sounds of "do what I must do."