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

Hi Kanota. I sympathize with what you are going through- I go through it too. I'm soon to be 54 =:O and was basically born with depression (or so jokes a past phyciatrist). I don't find humor in it, but it has been a learning process to find humor in certain situations. It doesn't help make one get ...

That answer would be no. I am shelled up with anti depressants (zoloft and wellbutrin) and have been for decades. I envy anyone who can just cry when need be.

Starting out, I thought that all I would have to do is focus on what I could do, show it to people, and that's how I'd get clients and work. A year later, and I realise that business is all about the skills you DON'T currently have; in my case it's sales and marketing. Can I just say one thing abou...

Thankyou Murphy. I would appreciate being able to read someone else with this. I'm finding it fasinating because for the first time in my life- there is something that makes sense as to my issues.

I just joined this board and this particular subject caught my eye and is the reason I took the time to join. I have Dissociative identity disorder (DID)- as I explained with a post to introduce myself. Now at 53, I've been self employed since the age of 19. I tried to work for someone else- tried h...

Hello. I have been listening to Paul's podcast for a few months now. Can I just say how helpful it is to not feel alone in my life long mental struggles since finding his podcast. I finally got a small vacation (I'm self employed so it's hard to have free time to check out websites) so looked this p...