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

hey hidalgo, so sorry that you're feeling frustrated with your current therapy relationship. how long have you been seeing this therapist? did you just start with her? if so, i'd say give it a few sessions to see if it gets any more comfortable. if you've been seeing her for a while, i would say tru...

My mom has always called me "OA" for overacting. Guess it's no wonder I bottle up my feelings 'til I feel the urge to beat myself to a bloody pulp. oh wow, do i relate to this. if i was happy or excited my mom would call my hyper and tell me i had to settle down, and if i was upset i was ...

update: 1 month sober tomorrow and still going relatively strong. dealing with a lot of issues that have come to the surface since i stopped drinking, but i have been sober all month!

welcome to the forum

so sorry to hear all that you are struggling with. i hope that you will find this forum a safe place to talk about what's going on. there are a ton of supportive and encouraging people here for you.

Lily Allen: The Fear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOyh6bircK4

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
And when do you think it will all become clear?
'Cause I'm being taking over by The Fear

I played this song CONSTANTLY after my first long term boyfriend cheated on me and broke up with me. I followed him to the college he was going to instead of going to a better school.. and we broke up 1 week short of our one year anniversary. good old emo break up song. "Seventy times 7" b...

so much of what you said resonates with me. please forgive me, it's sort of hard for me to talk about right now because i'm in the throws of dealing with this, but i can assure you that you are NOT being childish about it. sometimes I feel like I have no right to be upset about things in my life bec...

first, I'm so happy to hear from you heart, i was worried. second, and this is ridiculous ironic coming from me, never apologize for posting on here. this is a safe place to work out some of your feelings. were are all here to encourage and support you. i think it's okay if you're a little detached ...

"Forgivness is giving up all hope of a better past." These things happened. They are what they are. A lot of anger is fear and aversion -- a wish that somehow things are different. That might be a current situation, and in many cases it's something that happened long ago. Holding on to th...

holy cannoli (wow did i just say that?) You are a very strong person to be able to achieve that kind of forgiveness, since from where i'm sitting now, that seems impossible. a little (well probably a lot) of my story: my parents divorced when i was in kindergarten, and my mom moved my sister i back ...