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

If you are a veteran here is the link for the Veteran's Crisis Line
1-800-273-8255 and Press 1
send a text message to 838255
confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year

http://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

In a recent research article it appears that staying up late at the computer or watching tv may lead to depressive cycles because the artificial light and backwards eating cycle appears to disrupt the circadian rythyms of the body. http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/24/unplug-too-much-light-at-night...

I recently wrote this essay for my English 101 class. I hope you take from it what I truly meant to say. Feedback is greatly appreciated. (BTW, this is a long read as it was five typewritten pages.) This story begins as many do- “It was a dark and stormy night.” The ship steamed through the night on...

Thanks, Stina. The gun is out of the house for now, and we have been working on normalizing our lives again. And I still have yet to overcome my past attempts as well. (Even though I have gone so far as to be open about them with several friends and family. It really helps them to know that that dem...

Where to begin?... First, don't let my moniker here scare you. It is a name I chose for my tumblr ( http://suicidalmaniac39.tumblr.com/ ) so I could begin anonymously posting my life experiences with depression and suicide. (And I started that blog a couple of weeks after almost shooting myself.) I ...