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

It's been a long time since I've been here. A lot of shit has happened. Just wanted to share this Poem I wrote about miscarriage. Sorry if it's triggering. You Existed I didn't know you existed, My period was never gone, But HEAVY, So heavy I thought I was dying. A super tampon could only hold me fo...

How do you deal with loneliness. I am so alone and i feel like i am spiralling out of control. I work two jobs which wouldnt be bad if i wasnt working from like 7pm to to noon the next day. with a small amount of time to eat and sleep in between. I work completely alone, except for the morning to no...

So I've been working two jobs and really crazy shifts, where I am up 20 hours with very little sleep in between. I also have no social life and the few friends i manage to eek out dont really care either so here i am to tell my tale. From the time I was a tiny child i have hated windshield wipers. I...

I know life is supposed to suck part of the time but all of the time? It seems like my life is just one big crapfest after another. Its like i have a sign on my head that says abuse me she will survive anything. Anything you do to her she just takes it. To begin with my sexual abuse probably statred...

First let me appologize for all the typos.. damn phone will fix them when i dont want them toothen wont when it should. I appologize for whatever the nook will do now. Just a quick update or as brief as i can get it. It all came to a head late last night. He called me a bitch for the last time. So n...

I've been with a man for ten years. In the beginning he treated me well showed me respect and I think loved me he'd play mind gam with me has finally convinced me that my friends were just using me. Before that he'd just get super jealous and snotty that I was out with them and nt him. it got to the...

I used to be quite a bit like you. I like people now but before... Wow I kept everyone at a distance no one knew the real me the inner me. The tormented damaged me. For the longest time you just didn't touch me. If you touched me it sent me into an inner panic. There were a few people I eventually ...

Before i quit my job i had all sorts of wierd things going on with my body. My last year there i was continuously sick. I had sinus infection after sinus infection, along with ear infections. Then i would be given antibiotics and id get yeast infections. I never got yeast infections from antibiotics...

I am five foot tall without shoes and weigh about 80 pounds I am tiny. I do not look sickly and i do not look annorexic. I despise being called that. I really despise it if i have ate dinners with you lots of times and then you accuse me of being that way. I am like any other woman I gain and lose t...

I have sympathy for the molesters that were abused. I have sympathy for the one that struggle with those sexual desires but does not enact upon them. I don't think they can ever be cured and I don't think once caught they should be freed. I do think we need to study pedophiliacs and study it as a di...