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

Welcome Kittieface! I'm a newbee too. 'So if you tell someone you suffer clinical depression, they might think that they were sad after losing a job, but they got over it, why can't you get over it? ' This is what irks me, too. As if clinical depression were some sort of weak-willed self indulgence....

This episode actually caused me to have a (potentially dangerous) out-of-body experience while I was driving home on the highway. Everything Maria shared was so well-known to me, that I felt like I was in the studio, experiencing myself listening. It's a miracle I didn't fly off the road, which was ...

My name is Paul. I have dealt with severe depression for as many of my 60 years as I can remember, in the course of which I've developed several coping methods, including Zen meditation and self-compassion. Having lived through the entire genesis of drug development for the disease, I've also lived ...