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

Sad that all I can do is bleed my heart on here, so I guess one last update. Saw my therapist today, filling him in on what the psychiatrist decided as far as my disorders. On the positive he was in total agreement, and was really happy with his plans for the med and coopping skill method. I had to ...

Thank you, both of you for repling, suppose it's a bad sign when I'm writing this at almost 3am and woke up even with the higher dose, but he says I will be going up slowly, and 1mg is far from 3. next year you really have been kind and I am sorry about the fact that it seems many are struggling in ...

All of us on here are in a way in the same boat, funnything is I still feel guilty posting about me'espically when others seem to have more serious needs. I will try not to repeat stuff from my past post, but sorry this will probably be long. Friday I went with my 3 paged typed self diagnoses to the...

Thanks for all you said, I will check into the book. Technicly I was diagnosed back in the 70's as hyperkenetic, before add and adhd, I was put on ritilan, but my mind rebelled against it, and since I seemd to function they let it go. Friday I have my next meeting to compare what we each think is my...

Thanks Ipsis, sounds like you read the med post, some ups and downs, for the first 3 hours I get pretty groggy, but still chaulk that up to adapting. But today even at it's strongest point I felt the suicidal pressure creeping in, but I was also very restless, and think I did an adrenalin rush tryin...

sad thing was, my first thought was to apoligize for apoligizing. I really hope Paul Gilmartin hears this, I did go to see the Psychiatrist yesterday, and without his website, podcast and people on this forum, I don't think I could have done it, seeing my therapist fine, asking for meds, espically w...

I really want to thank both of you for your kind words.Sorry for the delayed response,been a very insane couple of days.Ipsis, I really want to apoligize for that that message on your intro post, I started by just trying to answer your question, then went way to long, that should be only about you a...

I'm seeing a therapist, he is very reluctant to send patients for psych meds, and yet he really feels I need them, this was also backed up by my family doc. I see the psychiatrist on friday, and am really terrified by it. Little history, sorry. I have, we all feel, cronic depression, going back to e...

My therapist feels, and so do others in my past I have had depression since birth, I was just real good at covering it up and developed alot of defenses, of course i had a lot more energy back then too, my parents really were never aware of how I was. Mental ocd, that is just the guess of my family ...

Hello Christina, if your like me, and from what you said there is some common ground, trust is not easy. And more so from a stranger. I can say I have been treated with nothing but kindness and respect here, and really can't say that about anywere else. I have been dealing with cronic depresion, anx...