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

It can be so exhausting to me to have the mood swings...I am so sick and tired of having stupid stuff affect how I feel every day all day long. Sick and tired of the negative feelings and having to try to fight them in my head all the while trying to make my outward appearence as good. Sick and tire...

Love this thread because I have suffered from this for years. It started in 6th grade and I have been doing it ever since...in my later 40's now. When I was younger I started to pull the hair on my head after I had a haircut. I don't know what triggered it in me to start doing it at that time, but I...

Oh my goodness...when you said "I have rules in my head I must obey." I can soooo relate to that! It's such a double edge sword to have those rules, because on one hand meeting those rules makes me feel better, yet they are constant and all day long that it is exhausting to have to live by...

I can so relate to having obessive thoughts and not being able to get rid of the bad feelings. Wish I had some words of wisdom to help you through it, but I don't. Hell I can't let bad feelings go from my childhood over 30 years ago, along with all the other shit that happens everyday that I obessiv...

I so understand the feeling of loneliness and stigma attached attached to BPD. I can only imagine how hard it must be to live with me and my emotional issues. I always feel like I am the broken one and I will never get away from BPD. It is so frustrating that my intense feelings over issues in my li...

Wow Cinnamon what a fabulous responce!! I have to admit that before reading it I was ready to bitch-slap the ex and friend!! But your post was perfect and really makes me happy that there are people out there like you who can explain "reality" so well and hopefully less like me who are so ...

Being a special education teacher myself, it's unbelievable how many of our youth are living in chaos, poverty, or having to deal with very adult issues every day!! The future isn't bright for a lot of our youth and yet we all expect them to grow up into responsible individuals. Our public schools a...

I remember as a teen and young adult reading all the fashion magazines and literally studying the pictures of all the beautiful models just jealous as hell and desperately wanting to be perfect, sexy, and as desireable as those "women". It was a constant source of reinforcement of the idea...

Thanks so much for the positive words...unfortunately I am not in the state of mind right now to be very receptive of it. But as I have always joked with therapists in the past, I'm "special" (not in a good way) the normal rules of expectations, behavior, and duties for people don't apply ...

Unfortunately I think that most women are still being brought up to feel like their life isn't complete until they find that "prince charming" to come and sweep them off their feet. And if this hasn't happened by the time a woman enters her mid 20's something is wrong with her. There still...