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

Thank you so much for your reply.

It DOES mean something when you take time from dealing with your pain to acknowledge someone else's. Do not ever doubt that.

As much as I hate to admit it... there isn't a cure for depression. There is simply an ability to acknowledge when you're depressed.

I’ve never understood why some people have such a stigma about therapy. I guess that is because it has been a part of my life as long as I can remember. It wasn’t something that I was always experiencing, but I remember sitting in the waiting room reading Ranger Rick and Highlights magazines as my b...

Often times I come off as narcissistic to others.

While it's true that I post a lot of pictures and funny conversations on facebook and my blog, I find that i have crippling self-doubt and am trying to use an alternate way to get validation.

I wrote this awhile ago, but it seems as good an introduction of me as I can manage. As a child, I thought that my mother was indestructible. The introduction to the idea that my mother would one day leave me was issued very early in my psychological development. Around that time, my first grandpare...