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

Thanks for your reply, Oak. Funny what you say abut your senses of taste and color coming back. I already feel like my senses are much more piqued. I guess I can look forward to more. At moments it's a little overwhelming, but then I have a tendency to get way too much in my own head. My uncle told ...

Hi there. I've got 6 days, and I'm liking being alcohol-free. (It'll be 7 once I lay my head on the pillow tonight.) I found a cool Buddhist meeting I can go to once a week, and I like the way people talk there. Not a lot of histrionics. It includes a 1/2 hour of meditation based on a "seed tho...

Hello, gang. I kind of wish I could do a poll about this, but I'm not sure that's something I have access to. I know a lot of people don't believe asexuality is a valid sexual orientation, and a lot of people don't give it much respect. (Even people I have historically much respected and appreciated...

fuck everyone. that's how i feel right now. and tired.

of course, it's just frustration. but, hey.

rxtravaganza, that's really cool that you're doing the work and enjoying the work with your husband. i can't imagine how painful that must have been for you, to be used by that person when you were so young, and then to be mocked for it later. jesus. i really hope to be in a similar place some day, ...

I really appreciate how much work it must have been, and it seems like a real transformation.

I don't think you seem incompetent at all.

I'll try and mull it over and see how much of that stuff applies to me. Certainly a lot of it is good practice for anyone, really.

Thanks, oak. That seems like a really practical approach, actually. Plus, books aren't so scary. heh

Did you find that potential partners were unforgiving about a lack of experience?

cpa85, I'm sorry that happened with you and your girlfriend. I feel like having to go through those issues alone, at a crucial time, just kind of crushed my chances in some ways. It's really hard when you don't really understand what's happening to you.

Feel free to lecture me, either it won't apply to me, i'll get mad, or learn something.