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

I feel not great. A lot of negative thoughts cycling through my head. A lot of the SAME negative thoughts as a matter of fact. My brain likes to keep itself occupied with the past and the future, so that I don't have to acknowledge the present... even though there is nothing bad happening at this mo...

"Don't be your own undertaker."
(the whole post is actually good).
http://www.briangardner.com/doing-less- ... ment-59608

A father/brother figure to Paul, the high-school teacher reflects on his Mexican heritage, violent upbringing, tour in Vietnam, stints as a bouncer at a Hell’s Angels bar, and a Club Med guide, his getting “struck sober” and how he has evolved into the man his father never was.

BO is body odor.

Hi oak
I'm enjoying reading your updates and glad you find this a useful tool.

Glad to hear that mouse.

I can't say I never notice these things but in the vast majority of cases when I stay with an episode I'll get a few useful points out of it. I think there have been only maybe two episodes where I've thought God that was a waste of time.

This empty chair thing is a good idea thanks for posting about it.

I'm sort of at a place like that now... just pretty much disinterested in everything... go to work, come home, eat, go to bed... just doing the basics. Even though there is nothing stopping me from getting more involved or improving myself etc. Sometimes its like I should be able to just snap out of...

Sorry that you are feeling low. I've been dropped before by people. In hindsight I was pretty negative so I can see why they wanted to not be around me much longer... not like I was enjoying myself that much either!