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

I've been posting on the forums but didn't introduce myself. How rude! I'm kanata. 37 yr old Canadian. I attempted suicide at 11 so I take that as the starting point. I've been depressed for 26 years. Diagnosed with "Chronic Major Depression". Add a dose of PTSD from abuse when I was in my...

My shrink gave me Ativan. That is the drug that makes me fall down the slippery slope of addictive brain pathways. I didn't tell him about the first shrink I saw who said if I wanted to be happy to take speed and handed out bottles and bottles of Ativan to me at 16. I didn't tell him how that led in...

I think it is quite common to mourn our abusers. I was wondering if you have checked out http://www.pandys.org/ which is a really good abuse forum that I've seen this topic discussed on.

I got mine from this [urlhttp://www.day-lights.com/canadaindex.html]site[/url]. Mine is the classic. It works well. I am sure you can get one easier and cheaper on Amazon or some such thing but this was what was available to me at the time from Canada. They also have a good link on that site to test...

I use one and it gets me through the dark and grey here on the west coast. Mine is quite large and comes on screw on legs that hold it above my head. I was told to look for one that put the light coming down from above like the sun does. My laptop fits under it so I sit in front of it each morning f...

Hi MaryJ. Sorry you've had to deal with this garbage forever but am glad that hey, at least the podcast was right and I'm not alone. You are right about accepting it. I seem to get pulled back and forth. I go for years accepting the permanent stain on me and then, occasionally, like now, when I'm su...

I've been doing the dance with depression for 26 years now (I'm 37). It comes and goes but mainly hangs around like some sort of infection that I can't shake. It is starting to flare up again and I can feel myself starting to slip down into the pit. I'm just really exhausted by it. Chronic Major Dep...