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

I struggle with this, too. There's always a pull between the whole fuck you for how you were vs. i want to rebuild our relationship if possible and forgiveness might be worth it. I think it's normal and OK to feel both ways, but I do sometimes wonder if me allowing myself to feel both ways might com...

The most useful technique/advice/placebo/whatever for me is giving myself permission to be bored. A lot of times my "just started self hatred", two minutes into creative work is just boredom which I have a bad habit of equating with failure. Like, if I'm not exploding with ideas/inspiratio...

I also sympathize with what your saying. I'm very sensitive as well, particularly when I'm under stress/not sleeping enough/dealing with anxiety or some big thing coming up in my life. Sometimes I feel like saying "EVERYONE SLOW DOWN. LET ME OFF ON THIS ONE, PLEASE, WORLD. JUST CHILL OUT FOR ON...

" So, he obviously cares about me deeply, but I still cannot shake the feeling that he might become tired of me and lose interest in our friendship. Sometimes when we text back and forth, he will type something different than what I expect. It is never anything negative, but I don't like it wh...

Thanks for your reply! Very much appreciated. Just getting my thoughts answered/responded to made me feel less alone.

Am i stupid for mourning this man, for wondering if he will burn in hell the rest of eternity or if theres a chance he could redeem himself on the other side. at first I was very happy to think that satan was shoving pineapples up his rear end but now i feel like the man should be able to have a he...

I know what you're talking about. I get them too. It's ok to feel that way, but I've always found a way to pull myself out of that spiral is to just face a blank page. Do something. I pull out a piece of paper and just free write or doodle. I always feel stupid and afraid and all these bad feelings ...

"coming here is stressful, being in my home town is boring and I don't feel welcome in my childhood home, which leads me to spending my entire day mindless staring at my laptop and being so damn unproductive. I draw nothing, I barely read, it's just a crushing depression that doesn't even work...

Hi everybody, been a big fan of the podcast for a while now, thought I'd come on here and join the discussion. A bit about me - early twenties, recently out of college and a long relationship. So it's one of those times, you know? Figuring things out, trying to take care of myself (for once), learni...