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

I haven't seen the brain scans, but I've read about how we are able to "rewire" ourselves. This is one of the bigger arguments for the success of CBT and EMDR therapies. It's really cool that this is possible without medications. And it's healthier and more sustainable. Still a lot of work...

Thanks for the kind words and links, guys. I'm not sure if I should post after bots. I'm not sure if that makes it harder to clean up, but this is when I'm online. I'll try and read up on what to look for and stuff before my app. I have a pretty crappy memory, and reading it now will probably be poi...

Yeah, I kind of have a feeling there isn't one answer to any one question. The answer always seems to fall in the gray area. Happiness is probably controlled by a suite of chemicals working in concert. Life experiences affect happiness, I think, because experiences affect chemicals in our brains. Si...

I made an appointment. Now the dread of actually going. I got a few referrals and googled them all and picked the one that seemed best. Then, on a lark, I googled the person who gave me the referrals and she was all tied up with an acupuncturist and chinese herbalist and I lost some faith in her, im...

Nice video, darei. I've heard of Ted talks but never really checked them out before. I couldn't stop thinking about possible confounding variables to the experiment, like people in the money experiment living in poverty, or maybe you release oxytocin after jumping from a plane because your brain is ...

The first one is a lecture by the same guy from Stress: Portrait of a Killer ( I think, it's been a while since I watched it.) . He's an amazing lecturer. Dr. Robert Sapolsky.

This is a cool lecture about depression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc

And here's an amazing high school teacher telling the kids about learned helplessness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFmFOmprTt0

Another idea is that if you live near to a university, you can often get mental health care for free from doctoral students...and you're 18 so you're free to do as you please, nobody has to be the wiser. And unless you're on or near campus you won't be seeing people like that who practically live on...

I realize now I seem to be arguing against you guys and against myself, on my behalf, for some reason (sort of)...hmmm. lol. Well, I tend to get into this space where I can be a contrarian and also where I can just be a bit argumentative for sport (I was once a debate kid, that was my "sport&qu...

cyanidebreathmint wrote: I dunno, I mean, in certain ways optimism is willful ignoring of the horrible aspects of the world, and even in a sense it's disrespectful. I tend to agree, and sometimes the realistic view is the pessimistic view. The only problem is that humans are not wired logically, an...