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

This could have been me. I identified with so much of John's past - breezing through school, making bad jokes in class, having no ambition, feeling no connection with others, jumping from subject to subject. That last one I call my 9 month rule. I can excel at any academic subject for exactly 9 mont...

Paul, Thank you so much for the mini-episode about narcis- narcississs- about me. I'm definitely a narcissist, if for no other reason than I love the fact that I can put a weird name on whatever's holding me back. I'm not a failure, I'm a narcissist. There were so many times during this episode that...

Paul, i've been meaning to post since I listened to this podcast a few days ago. That part towards the end when you said that you sometimes feel like you and your listeners are the same person, well that's how I felt when you started describing your mother's various infractions against you. I find i...

Hey, Will. The loneliest I've ever felt was standing in the middle of downtown Tokyo (which is 50% more dense than NYC); there's something about a big city, being so close to so many people all of whom have trained themselves to ignore you and everyone else, that's incredibly depressing. The flip si...

Thanks, you guys. Those replies were really insightful, and mean a lot to me.

I don't know how to be cool and let these things slide. I can't hep thinking that my career is supposed to be something else, but it's not. I don't want to be someone obsessed with money, careers, education, but I can't stop thinking that other people are always judging me. It's my own snobbishness ...