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

Nick Drake - Place to Be
Fleet Foxes - Hopelessness Blues (i'm playing it right now)
Rufus Wainwright - What'll I Do

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Every day I'm around people or cross paths with people who make it their life's mission is to make you feel like garbage or reinforce their own shitty worldviews. There's a game people play that i call "My pain is the only valid pain and you should suffer because of it". Or constantly bein...

It's shitty that no one here could even take a minute to post a reply to you. Sometimes all you want in life is for someone to acknowledge you're in in pain/angry/sad. If someone is not taking care of themselves and working with their therapist than, from my experience, it's a recipe for total disas...

That's awful, I don't know you but I feel for you. My depression and anxiety problems have hurt/ruined the few relationships i've had so far, not saying my experiences are the same/better/worse as yours. Its fucking sucks.

I'd consider myself an atheist (or possibly agnostic) as well, with a lot of leanings toward Buddhist philosophical teachings (love Alan Watts). How do you cope with the idea that existence could end at death? I've been struggling with this and it's made my life excruciating- obsessing about death, ...

Nevina, I can TOTALLY relate. "I'm afraid that the brief moments of motivation and learning that I experience are so lost in the sea of anxious paralysis and I will never get out of this swamp."-I tell myself the SAME thing every single day. I'm struggling under two student loans and medic...

Just found the podcast last week and I've blown through about 15 episodes already! I've been suffering from depression, anxiety, and social anxiety since childhood. I'm on meds and not seeing a therapist currently and I'm far from friends or anyone I can really talk/vent to right now so I appreciate...