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

Sending some love to you muaddib87 I JUST posted my feelings about friendships that echos what you have written, you are definitely not alone. I am sincerely sorry that you are in such pain. Can relate to that hollow, sinking feeling of being a problem and a failure. So much so. There is hope though...

This isn't so much a "do others feel this way" as me wanting to hear your stories about difficulties with friendships. I feel like I've always struggled with friendships. I used to blame it on the fact that I moved countries 4 times by the time I was 10 years old. Always coming in after ot...

Weird Shanarchy... just yesterday on my way home I saw a girl with larger thighs like mine wearing REALLY short shorts. The first thought that popped into my head was... "Why don't I have the 'balls' to do that? Why do I feel like I CAN'T wear something like that? She's rocking them, why couldn...

May sound strange but I have to credit "What Not to Wear" with helping me with the "size" issue. I still get bummed out when I grab an XL shirt and it doesn't fit, but my brain is now able to just grab all the sizes around my "usual" size and try them on. I still get up...

Fantastic Oak! Glad to hear. And I totally relate about your story at the end. Sometimes we just need that moment to get the frustration out of our brain before we can look at it and go... wait, it wasn't that bad at all!

I also figured out in the last few years that I have some issues with Social Anxiety... In my early 30's now. Most people would say, "Pshhh no you don't, you are always talking to people when you're out!" Ah yes, I might be - but what you don't know is that I've barely eaten anything all d...

Such an important guest to have, and I hope he is a true representation of what most CPS workers are like. Growing up in the small town/area that I did, I saw instances of people having their kids taking away as well as some that should have had them taken. It was brutal to hear/see some of the situ...

I hope others would agree - we're not here to listen to an interview, we're here for the conversation. If Paul wasn't sharing it would certainly be quite the one-sided conversation, like an interview, it's great the way it is! I completely relate to a lot of the binge eating. Figured out years ago t...

Twisted Steel wrote:I'm afraid this numbness will follow me through life until just before I die, and with death imminent, I'll finally "get it" only to leave this life moments later, having never lived the life I was truly meant to live.

Ouch. That one hit deep.

Churble, you made me laugh out loud, sitting at home by myself...

I totally got weird and cried about a dinosaur.

I totally get it.