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

Wow, that's all excellent advice! I'll have to listen to that episode of the podcast - I think I missed it. Thank you so much!

Thanks for the reply, manuel_moe_g! I'm sorry you struggled with longing/isolation in your youth. I'm glad you figured out how to deal with it and how to heal yourself! "talking back to obsessive thoughts and just interrupting obsessive thoughts" This is a great thing to keep in mind! I sh...

It always seems like it's getting better, and then it plunges down into the depths of crazy and it's a constant struggle to think of anything else even for a few minutes. I don't know what to do to clear my head. Melt down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha. Um... hopefully this is a temporary state.

Oh, barf............ I am losing my mind over this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4CDGNyOl6E&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL68AEF4871CA5A5C1 Skip ahead a bit in this video. She made a few pretty useful points, I thought, particularly the one about how the feeling of absolute need for one person (needing them in order to feel co...

Thanks for the replies, everyone! I hadn't checked on the forum for a few days, so I was really excited to come back and read all of this. "It sounds almost reminiscent of some traits of borderline personality disorder. Have you ever researched that before? While it may not relate to you comple...

Anyone else have issues with this? I get swept up in extreme levels of limerent fixation on a pretty regular basis. It especially swells up and consumes me when there are big obstacles in the way of the attraction and it can't quite be actualized, which I think is pretty common as a factor in enhanc...

I do this at the video rental store! Also, very slightly at the grocery store and in other shopping situations. My girlfriend usually wanders off without me, because she'd rather not wait. Which is fair!

"I know it's a common symptom of depression, but I also suspect that it has a bit to do with a weakened sense of self somehow." I think that's really true - that extreme indecision is linked in with a weakened sense of self. I have it come particularly forcefully at times when I'm most dis...

Great thread! That Abraham Lincoln quote was something; I'd never heard it before. The Kate Bush song "Never Be Mine" hits close to home for me, relating to my limerence/wanting-what-I-can't-have issuses: I look at you and see My life that might have been: Your face just ghostly in the smo...