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

The standup comedian (Late Night with Craig Ferguson) opens up about her conservative Catholic upbringing, doing volunteer work in Jamaica and coming to terms with being lesbian. She and Paul talk about bad porn, being turned on by things we wouldn’t want in real life and the heavy burden of being c...

I did read this not sure what to say except maybe you can start telling one or two of your friends and see how it goes before progressing to others.

About that philosopher that David was speaking about here is a page of recent talks given by this person: http://tnhaudio.org/

At the moment I have some tightness in my stomach. Day 3 of a 4 day weekend. Weekends I find are the hardest because I isolate. I've had my neigbour smoking out on their back patio the whole summer (ok maybe bothers me 2 times a day on average, sometimes many more). It blows into my window. I don't ...

I liked the stuff at the end of the interview about meditation.

Great post Albert!

Hi, I'm going to use this thread to write down my day to day thoughts. Maybe daily, probably less. I've been isolating myself more and more over the past while. Actually when I look over the past weeks, months, years that statement probably is true for all of those time periods. I've been becoming m...

I really don't like this term "love addiction". Like Paul and others said, it doesn't really have anything to do with love of another person, as far as I can tell. Its more of a desperation to connect, or something like that. And I know that feeling.

The 3rd generation Japanese-American psychologist shares his experience and observations counseling sexual predators (rapists and child molesters) at Coalinga, a lockdown mental hospital in central California and how he used Buddhism to help him cope.

Yesterday I was feeling low but today I do feel somewhat better. Went for a run this morning which always helps. Also, one of the things I've been working on / discussing with my therapist is basically engaging people in public. Focusing on attractive women, but not limited to them. I find it hard t...