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

That's what I want to do, it's just easier said that done. I was very hesitant on the phone and raised the issues of having no vacation time and not wanting to travel with a newborn, and I was met with "Well, we want to do this for you" and "This is supposed to be a good thing."

For background, I'm ~6 months pregnant. Most of my family including my parents live ~8 hours away. My husband's family lives ~2 hours away. My friends asked if my family was throwing me a baby shower. I said no, we don't have them in my family as a weird superstitious thing, but that I'm not opposed...

Welcome! Sorry for whatever you're going through.

I like it!

THANK YOU! I almost turned it off, I felt the same way. It would have bothered me less if it was acknowledged that it was a harmful attitude, but it never really was.

BurgDweller, I get what you're going through. I also have a lot of social anxiety. Meds can definitely help! It helped me a ton. I starting doing a really interactive job a few months after the first time I went on meds and, while I was a little nervous, I realized that I never would have been able ...

I relate to this so much. I don't want to treat my future children the way my parents treated me. (Also basically good people, but made some huge mistakes, in my opinion.) But then I'm afraid that I'll overcompensate and make some other horrible mistakes that will fuck my children up in a different ...

I've been off my antidepressants for several months because I'm trying to conceive. (My psychiatrist added an anti-anxiety medication, which helps a bit, but it's definitely not the same.) It's been a struggle. I've been irritable, and I've been having a hard time completing daily tasks (like making...

That definitely sounds like something my mom would say as well.

I will forever love the calm tone of voice in which Luke said, "I just wanted him to know that he was fucking with the wrong motherfucker." I kind of want to make that into a cross stitch.