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

Thank you for being there for me. I am taking the steps to find out who I am and I how to move forward. My immediate future is daunting and if I take it all in at once, overwhelming. Its been a week since the DUI and I wake up and have those first moments of calm before reality drowns me. As I said ...

I haven't been on for a while, and I should have been. Each podcast I listen to or post I read makes me feel better. The truth is I have been sad for so long and the events of the past few days have made me choose between continuing the struggle or this is the end. The past five years of my life hav...

I haven't been on for a while, and I should have been. Each podcast I listen to or post I read makes me feel better. The truth is I have been sad for so long and the events of the past few days have made me choose between continuing the struggle or this is the end. The past five years of my life hav...

God, have I been drifting. My life feels very disconnected and not with any real purpose. I have a job at the same place which I have been doing for almost 25 years and I am afraid to move on- though I feel like I should be moving on. I'm a Corporate Photographer and I know that its hard to find wor...

My name is Peter. This podcast and community are what I need right now.

This is my first post here. I just found this podcast by chance and I feel like a door opened with all these fellow people looking for companionship and understanding. I know that I am an alcoholic and I am so afraid to change. My life is heavy with a lot of mistakes I've made, much guilt and knowin...