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

I feel like this accurately describes all of the answers I give at work to the question "How are you?"

I have been in this funk for a long time, ever since I can remember. Everyday I feel this hot pain in my chest and I just feel low. It's not as bad as it used to be (Thank you Cymbalta) but sometimes all I want to do is cry. To be hugged and to cry. I don't have a partner, I don't have friends that ...

So I had my first appointment with the therapist today and I have to say that I thought that it was really good. I cried for most of the appointment, which is embarrassing, but she was very kind and was really great. I think that I will keep seeing her. I have an appointment with someone else on Wed...

Update: I got so anxious on Sertraline that my doctor took me off of it. I also couldn't sleep and everything was just getting worse.

So now I'm on 20 mg of Prozac. Doesn't seem to be doing anything but at least i'm not having horrible side effects.

Yeah, it's been a rough couple of weeks but I know that I have to do it. It's harder I think because I don't even know where to begin telling my story. ALso because I feel that if someone were to take a look at my life they would be convinced that I was crazy for thinking anything was wrong at all. ...

Hi Everyone, I have been listening to this podcast for a while now and just in the last month have been diagnosed with depression. It's all very new to me and even though most of my family suffers from mental illness I have tried very hard to prevent my fall down what seems like a very dark hole. Un...

Hello everybody, I have a question and I think I just might be making too big a deal out of it but I wanted to ask a couple people before I did anything. I have recently been diagnosed with depression and my doctor put me on sertraline which is a generic of Zoloft. It was really hard for me to go to...