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

I feel like I'm dying!!! I don't know what to do. I don't usually feel this way around the holidays, or maybe I do, I can't be sure because in past years I've either gone away on long backpacking trips or drowned any feelings in drugs. This autumn has been drug-fuelled too, only minor class C stuff,...

I've worked on a lot of people who didn't consider it their kind of "thing" but who were very surprised... Just sayin'

Well that's a bonus!!

@Plumeria: yeah it's true, keep focusing on the steps we take forward and not the ones we slide back. Anyway, I'll never become a true, even-spirited, centred vegan lady swathed in purple and crystals, that's just not my thing. My healing is much more down to earth. And for every down-day I have, th...

Hey steph, sounds to me like you are very off-balance in terms of your energy centres / chakras. Are you familiar with this? If you are ever down in London gimme a shout on 07895105028 (my website is www.kajsapalsson.com). I'm not promoting myself here, I'd be happy to help you for free. I just can'...

Hey iamtheshit (allow me to make a slight amendment to your name), So it was this arrest that changed everything? Cos it sounds like you had a great thing going there with the community and all? And that is what has brought you down into this deep depression? I guess it was a combination of the awfu...

Hey Plumeria! I don't claim to have any answers, I'm just putting in my view... The first thing I want to say to you is, if you're experiencing an unwanted emotion, if you fight it, it will fight back. The more you don't want it around, the more you worry about it or feel guilty about being sad for ...

Hey nice to meet you both. @Driftwood: I guess that's we're all doing, right, just filling the gaps of our lives? I mean, where the hell are we, and what's the point, and what are we meant to do??? That's the frustraring and interesting bit. So we find careers, stock shares, families, pharmaceutical...

...for me to get on this forum and say hello. I'm a Swedish-gone-Londoner, 27 years of age, and I discovered the Mental Pod this summer when I was doing a particularly painful secretary gig at some media law firm in one of the poshest parts of London. I'd down at least three episodes a day, on the t...