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

I just had a panic attack after drinking a glass of melotonin. Did I just win anxiety?

I've dug myself into a hole at work. Why can't I just simply say hello to people when I pass their cubicles? I know I come off as a) unfriendly and b) a moody loner, but sometimes I feel powerless to get my shit together. World War I didn't start when someone said "hello" to the Serbian Ar...

Great thread, dare i say it. A line that makes me laugh from time to time is: "Humiliation is good, it means you believe in something." ---Smog/Bill Callahan --"Fool's Lament." I feel like humiliation is something everyone experiences on a near daily basis, and what we each feel ...

Keep trucking, EliCash. I've been in therapy for a few years now, and though I like my doc a lot and trust him, I still find myself lying about certain things. For me, I just find that these issues I'm not honest about are really painful to talk about. Usually, I end up talking about all these thing...

Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome. Algernon, thanks for the advice. I'm getting more comfortable with the meaningless social rituals. It would be kind of funny (albeit in a selfish kind of way) to answer a co-worker's "How are you?" as they're walking by, with "My fucking DAD!&qu...

Hi everyone. I'm going to give this a go. Paul's show (awesome, by the way) and this community are emboldening me to do what it seems that I've been incapable of doing since I was a kid: be honest. Sweeping this stuff under the rug has *not* been going awesome. I've been in treatment for a few years...