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

Hi--Thanks for your responses . Right now I'm feeling like the sentiment and concern behind my post was something I'd stand by, but not unreservedly and definitely not nearly as acerbically. I appreciate what both of you have said, and have reflected a good bit. BigGeekGirl -You're right on both you...

I have a similar reaction as Bill. Some of my dissatisfaction with this and many recent episodes has been the fact that the guest is a performer, writer, etc. or an aspiring one. They often have something to sell or hope to generate Twitter followers and it seems only to their advantage to be on the...

I agree really strongly with you. This may be the reason I find the surveys to generally be my favorite part of the show. The interviews tend to have a “I-once-was-lost-but-now-am-(sorta)-found” arc that tend to lose me. Basically, I feel lost and unable to manage being alive, and so in order to tru...

Hey E, Wow, Aimee Mann's songs can pack such huge themes so compactly. My impressions: the point of view of this song, as in others of hers, seems to be of someone who's been hurt yet knows that to close herself off as a result would only further the damage. And she doesn't merely point the finger a...

Hey Dovakin, I had to try a bit but ended up digging the JC song you posted very much. (This is what I love about this thread!!) Not something I necessarily would have come across nor taken the time with that I did had it not been on this board. It feels like a dirge, a requiem for... all of us, per...

I'll admit to being curious and titillated by all the sex-work stuff, and I listened all the way through. But I also had the icky feeling of this interview being something of a variation on the work Gladys had done--i.e., she was getting attention (if not exclusively, in large part) because of her s...

Hey W,
These are gorgeous photos of a very beautiful feline! Nicely done (both of you!)

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From The Donald:

The Night Belongs to Mona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8tIfDZtnE0

"We all wonder where she's gone,
that sunny girl we used to know..."

Hi Bez, You've described precisely what's important to me about MIHH as well. I'm sure you'll find this forum cool too, so welcome. Anyone who dares to be honest and vulnerable makes it that much easier for everyone else to do the same, I believe; at least that's how the show and the forum have infl...

Ooh, such a pretty song, perhaps my favorite part of "Her." Great job on that! OK, my turn... and this is a *good* one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vUc17A0SNY