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

I swear, once I am not living here, I want nothing to do with my mother or her damn boyfriend. Nothing at all. I know a lot of my situation is my fault, but they don't get how fucking scared I've been, or how depressed, or how I've spent much of the last few years just trying to keep myself alive. Q...

I've long wanted to have sex in public. Somewhere outdoors, maybe. It is something that sounds like fun. The closest I've ever come was giving the guy I was dating at the time a blow job outside of our campus library. It was nighttime and very dark, so no one saw us. The fear of (possibly) getting c...

I didn't call the hotline, mostly because I couldn't think of anything I'd say that didn't sound like a shitload of whining. It's the same reason why I don't talk to my friends or my boyfriend about what's going on in my head...they've heard it all many times before and I'm tired of hearing it mysel...

It's visceral, like a physical sensation. I can feel the cold hard metal as it passes my lips and sits on my tongue. I can see my fingers as they tighten around the guns' handle, my index finger reaching slightly forward to rest around the trigger... This is why I will never own a gun. I respect the...

Hi Anna,

I do surrealist pieces, representational, in a lot of different media--acrylic, watercolor, collage, printmaking, digital, or mixed media. I do feel like art is an added dimension from which I can explore life, and I'm super grateful for it.

...but here I am. I've been listening to the podcast for a while now; it's been extremely helpful and I'm grateful to know that some of the people whose work I feel is really great go through the same kinds of things I do, both in and out of their creative lives. I'm queer, female (for the most part...