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

I gotta say, even though I feel almost narcissistic to think this, that I'd be much more inclined to participate if there were a lot fewer subforums, so I could worry less about my posts being seen. I feel like I've put a lot of time and thought into posts that seemed like they'd be relevant to peop...

Recently I've gotten into Adult Children of Alcoholics, which turns out to actually be Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families . They have this thing called the Laundry List, which is basically their calling card. It seems like people who belong in this program read this and have a &...

+1 for tapatalk. (or just a mobile friendly version of the forum)

I'm so glad to hear an episode finally tackle this issue. I identified with Andrew so hard, despite being in a different life stage, and athletically inept. If anything should be evidence that ADHD is a real thing and that I have it, it should be all the little things I recognize in the stories of p...

Not to be crude or anything. I've lost 60 lbs in the last 2 years, 30 in the last few months. But those few months have turned me into a gas machine. And so I've spent hours on the toilet at work, meaning I haven't felt able to take actual breaks, making me hate my job even more. This week, I decide...

Effexor withdrawal is the worst. I managed to wean myself down from 225 to 175 about a year ago, but at that point I could sense the dark clouds gathering on the horizon, so I stopped. I hate being dependent on this, to the point where I feel like shit if I go off it for a day. And I'm still depress...

I'm just gonna cut and paste this from an email I wrote my OA sponsor a couple hours ago. Got tired of waiting for her to respond with her take (ADD FTW), so I'm sharing it here. I feel like I've cracked a code, which is super exciting, but I am not exactly sure where to go next with this newfound i...

Holy shit, I didn't see you'd done this. Thanks Paul!!

Help me slay this fear/rationalization/catch-22. I don't try to do things in ways that haven't worked for me, because I presume failure. But I'm afraid to try things in new ways, because what if I'm not ready, I fail in a new way, and then I have to scratch one more idea off the list of potential so...

I just emailed my daily food plan to my sponsor in Overeaters Anonymous, and went on this rant at the end. I decided it was worth posting here too. Incidentally I find myself right now really really really really really wishing there was ADHD Anonymous. Or a list of ADHD prayers as good as the 12 st...