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

I had a bad day. I'm ok now. Right now I'm not seeing a therapist. I have in the past, with rather mixed results, to put it mildly. And since I thought I had a handle on it, I didn't see a need anymore. I have a good friend though who I can talk to about it. I talked to her today, mentioning a momen...

I'm having a less than great day. I was going through expert testimony and medical records of a murder and rape case involving a victim coerced into compliance, and there were questions about how guilty she was of the acts that she had assisted her husband with. The team of therapists evaluating her...

Happy birthday http://vksempireofdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bro-hug.jpg I'm wondering what you're burning to fuel your endurance. Talking physically, we have fat stores we can burn when we need energy, and when those are gone, we begin consuming ourselves, our muscles, our bones, our vital ...

During the worst of it for me I found that venting online helped a lot. By writing out your feelings you have to take something that might be all over the place and craft it into something linear and coherent. That process alone was a big help in cleaning up the mess in my head a bit. Hm... I had th...

I can't remember having had a day like this. Out of nowhere I've found myself crying today multiple times, but out of happiness, and gratitude. Almost feels like a new kind of mental illness ;) There are such good people in this world, and in my life. For example, when I thought my daughter from an ...

I have zero advice, but I hear you. What you're looking for is the exact same thing I'm looking for. I left a woman I loved a lot because I thought our relationship wasn't going to get better, and we had some bad boundary issues. I only learned about boundaries while in that relationship. What a nov...

Same here. She was 38 when we met. I was 18. Eventually it was this desire to have a child of my own that I used to pull myself away from her influence initially and move out. That desire turned out to be stronger than this mutation of guilt and resignation I used to call love back then. Hm... If sh...

I don't know your exact situation, but just from how you feel right now, it sounds very familiar. It was a bad place to be. Something I was lacking then was a clear vision of the future. A goal, and a path. After so many years I didn't even know what that kind of clarity could be like, or that I was...

Thanks for the warm welcome y'all :) @imperfectrhyme BDSM is kind of a double edged sword in my eyes. One of the problems with communities such as fetlife is that you will find rationalizations for any kind of destructive behavior up to and including mutilation, psychological and physical.There are ...

So, where to begin... I'm a 30 years old born American living across the Atlantic. I heard of this podcast on Marc Maron's first, and right away thought it was a fantastic idea. In order to be a good cook I think it's important that you develop a love for the process. I'm a terrible cook, but I have...