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

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-omega-psychotic-episodes-schizophrenia-20150812-story.html https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+fish+oil "How Omega-3 fatty acids might do that has not been pinned down, the authors acknowledge. Fish oil supplementation appears to bo...

Found via Reddit. This is big deal if it's real. A Urine Test Could Distinguish Between Bipolar Disorder And Depression http://www.iflscience.com/brain/urine-test-distinguish-forms-depression "The authors note that some of these biomarkers have been investigated before, but individually did not...

Did you own a cat when you were a child? http://schizophrenia.com/prevention/cats.html "Since 1953, a total of 19 studies of T. gondii antibodies in persons with schizophrenia and other severe psychiatric disorders and in controls have been reported; 18 reported a higher percentage of antibodie...

Did you own a cat when you were a kid? Do you think you might have been affected by this? http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/295012.php The NAMI questionnaire - conducted around a decade before any data was published on cat ownership and mental illness - revealed that around 50% of individuals...

Sorry to hear that. I just finished listening to Change Your Brain, Change Your Life audiobook. I picked it up from the library. It was great to hear brain scan can help determine what the best treatment the person should need. Ideally this takes some of the guess work out of determining the best tr...

Thanks for responding! I think it helps others to realize taking prescribed medication is the only real option for most people.

@rlmo It will take some time to figure out what works for you. I recommend reading "The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide". http://www.amazon.com/Bipolar-Disorder-Survival-Second-Edition/dp/1606235427/ref=as_sl_pd_wdgt_ex?&linkCode=wsw&tag=themenillhaph-20 Notice the link has Paul's ...

justsomeoneinacorner - I TOTALLY agree. The sample is amazingly small. I hope a bigger study will come out soon. It sucks to even know about it really. You work with your doctor to put you on a medication that you finally works. Then someone says you should try turmeric. Then if you try it. Now you ...

I've seen someone with severe depression lose his memory after electric shock therapy. It's not pretty. This sounds like a much safer funnier approach. I need to tell my dentist about this. New Depression Treatment So Obvious You Won’t Believe It’s NEVER Been Tried Before http://www.spring.org.uk/20...

After years of feeling down every Winter, I finally bought a SAD 50k lux light this year. I feel SOOOOOO much better. I let someone borrow it for a couple days. On day 3 I felt amazingly blah. "Amazingly blah" is a technical term. After getting the light back, I felt fine ever since. My do...