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

I feel exactly the same way. Certain things are different but a lot of the core is the same. I would like to offer you a *hug*

Even though I know this could be considered very much an easy problem to fix, it's still been hard for me. I know I'm stronger than letting a break up after just over a year affect me to the point that I'm doing some serious damage. Yet for some reason I can't stop. But I have to stop and just tonig...

Ha, well I'm not sure if my perceptions are the best right now, though towards other people I'm sure I'd be ok - just myself :/ Really not sure what I've done to myself lately. I find that I'm behaving so impulsively and possibly irrationally in my interactions with certain people in my life. Today ...

I feel compelled to join in here. I live in BC and I'm broken as well. I know I've needed professional help for a long time, but it's only been the last few months and definitely after listening to this podcast that I see it has to happen now . Checked our recently revised health plan - they took ou...

Yup, totally agree. Wish I had something more to say, but I do like that quote. Does make me smile - YES! That's it! Been wrapped up in feeling pretty broken after a breakup that I initiated. Boundaries were demolished and I no longer feel safe around those (friends) I really wanted to. But since I'...

I am a strange crier. I cry at nearly everything... TV, movies, music, commercials, a sweet gesture, other people's sadness & joy - yet when it comes to my own sadness, I talk myself out of it too quickly to really let them out. I've come to accept all my weird crying moments and let them out, j...

If I may ask (and you totally don't have to answer this), did you ever have trouble with fake friends as a kid? Like, did anyone ever pretend to be your friend so they could make fun of you behind your back? I had that all the time as a child, and that's where about 90% of my issues with trusting m...

It's funny that one of the first things that came to mind is that maybe I don't belong here. I don't think I suffer from depression as to be diagnosed, but I can honestly say that I'm extremely lonely. And I have issues with connection and relationships. And I have issues stemming from both mom &...