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

I understand the point you are making about the pharmaceutical industry and its manipulation of what "counts" as an illness that requires treatment. That is not what I am talking about, and it is not what I am referring to with respect to my experience. The stigma and shame I attached to m...

I think Paul spoke briefly a couple weeks ago about the stigma attached to people who have chronic sexually transmitted infections (herpes in particular). I really appreciated that he said that because when I received my herpes diagnosis four years ago I was truly traumatized, shamed, devastated and...

I have been in a relationship with a wonderful man for the last three years. He is kind, tender-hearted, funny, smart, and really stuck in his depression. I know he is not choosing to be depressed. I too have suffered from depression and am vulnerable to it coming on when my sleep, nutrition, and wo...