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

Thanks, if you send a pm I'd love to hear it.

Thank, I appreciate any and all advice. I'm so straight that I wish I wasn't. It would be a lot easier.

I am in my late 20's and have a lot to work on never having long term relationships. I have a counselor who has offered not only to sit down with my mother whom I believe is the cause of a lot of my anxiety around women, but to call her to try to come to a session if she will not listen to me. I hav...

I find myself summoning flashbacks often lately if I am in a good mood consisting of chaos and abuse from years back. Today out of nowhere I started thinking of an incident where I was confronting my father who was in an alcoholic rage,while my younger sister was in the room. I was reacting trying t...

Everything is good so far after x-rays and apt. I was worried but I got lucky.

I am starting a new program tomorrow. The person doing the scheduling did the phone questionnaire and set me up for some kind of evaluation. I was distracted when I mentioned al-anon and the woman on the phone, who works in a mental health facility, did not know what it was and I had to explain to h...

I get the feeling that I was never acknowledged by my father growing up and nothing has changed. I don't know how to describe it other than by saying I never existed emotionally to him. He will say I Love You when he feels guilt and even though he means it, whatever mental issues that are going on b...

I go to the gym to maintain and have messed up my ankle running recently after I though it had healed from a fracture 2 years ago. It is causing a lot of discomfort and I am stressed out that I can't go to the gym. I need to be seen by the doctor and I do not have health insurance currently because ...

I feel too stubborn to admit any success I have made, maybe because it is small. Or I am afraid that if I give myself away I will be taken advantage of. I have gotten enough of a sense of consciousness coming back that it is increasingly more difficult to relax. I want that balance of personality an...

I carry around what feels like 9 years of wasted time and am constantly reminded of what felt like suffering throughout that time. What it mostly consisted of was isolation. I have enough insight and buried anger to continue to be stressed out, but I would rather share it than have it stay in me. Wh...