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

I have tinnitus too. I used to have insomnia every night until i finally realized that the quieter things were in the room the louder it got. I bought a $15 sound machine and i now i sleep great. good luck

thank you both. i'm trying not to feel sorry for myself. i know its not a game. i was just in shock. 20 years of my life it's just dead and gone. i wanted to remind myself others have it much worse and I just need to buck up and work toward a new future. a better future. i'm thinking of moving close...

I really want to know because mine is today. no joke it's worse than the time i was raped at 13. my husband of 20 years told me he has been fucking some hot russian whore and she's pregnant. I think I could deal with the fucking. him fucking someone would be a walk in the park. we tried for 15 years...

Your mom sounds like my sister. Total, manipulative nut job. I'm so glad I haven't seen her in 4 or 5 years. I had some things that I used to do that helped me keep my cool and not join in the crazy. First I tried to imagine someone was filming us. You can even imagine whoever you will talk to later...

Hi Ryan, I'm having the same problem with my counselor. She only seems concerned if I'm going though a crisis, she doesn't seem interested in digging into and figuring out my long term problems. You said about the uncontrollable shaking that you've never had trauma. If I saw evidence that my dad bea...

Paul, I just watched a new PBS show on Johnny Carson and his relationship with his mother reminded me of you with yours. It was just heartbreaking the way she withheld approval. He tells a story of calling her all excited because he found out he will get the Governor's award and she says "well,...

Well, we manged to get my brother out of my house. He took a job in another state. My husband dropped him off at the bus station this morning. I've been feeling guilty for kicking him out. He has a job to do all week but on weekends he will be homeless and carless. Then I took a look at my spare roo...

I'm working on this to give my brother. I waiting for my husband to call to see if he agrees with all the details. I'm so glad I had this forum, just imagining a sympathetic ear or two makes me feel better. (brothers name) I'm writing this down so that you don't forget it later. (husbands name) and ...

I am trying not to freak out here. I made myself an appointment, but its not for 3 days. I am so uneasy thinking about him spending the past 3 days focusing entirely on the supposed "abuse" he is suffering. It's as if he is in a feedback loop and he can't think about anything else. i told ...

I set limits. I told him he had 3 weeks to find a job. His reply? "you are violated my civil rights by viciously denying me access to the internet. i am documenting this. I have a right to access the internet." what the hell? he is living in some kind of fantasy world where I am a dictator...