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

Just wondering if anyone has tried electro shock therapy and if you have had any positive results?

How I am feeling tonight: What is death? It is the huge empty hole in my heart being filled. It is the pain crushing my body from the inside out subsiding. It is not facing waking up tomorrow. It is the most peaceful, numbing calm that has ever come over my body. It is the world not missing me for a...

I was just diagnosed with Bipolar II after 30 years of being misdiagnosed with clinical depression. I am on the generic of Lamictal and a new med called Latuda. I feel like a new person. I was on Abilify first and it made me so jittery I couldn't stand it. Try the Lamictal. It is an older drug so it...

I was misdiagnosed with clinical depression for 30 years. I finally within the last month was correctly diagnosed with bipolar II and have begun to feel a real difference on my new meds. I can't believe how many years of my life were ruined by this misdiagnosis! It is infuriating but I am happy that...

Lamictal 25 mg (working up to 50 mg)
Latuda 40 mg
Gabapentin (Neurontin) 800 mg

I have suffered with mental illness for almost 30 years. At 17, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. Over the next nearly 3 decades I have been on nearly every antidepressant available. Nothing has given me any relief. Three weeks ago, I was at such a low point in my illness. I was suicidal and...