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

hmmm... now I'm intrigued. Have you ever had your hormone levels checked? Could be an over active sex-drive? Perhaps coupled with early experiences that were arousing but innocent? I would still naturally suspect abuse of some kind, but perhaps that is unfair, biased by our own history. Especially s...

Hey some guy from Wisconsin
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ha ha ha thank you hmmmm.... well as you can imagine at first this was something we (she) could not accept according to most credible sources DID develops in people when they are emotionally/physically/sexually abused in such a way that the mind protects itself by escaping by going away while "...

I have absolutely no sympathy or empathy for these people whatsoever. Perhaps it is because I know way too many victims and have listened to far too many stories of horror, shame, and abuse unimaginable. Anyone who would harm an innocent to fulfill their own "needs" deserves to be punished...

Totally okay for guys to cry!!! Takes a real man to shed tears...only cowards are afraid to show they have feelings. Big Safe Hugs (((*hugs* ))) I had to surrender a dog because he happened to be part pit bull and we could not keep him in the apartment we moved to. Broke my heart. Understanding and ...

lance, That's awfully young to have such fantasies. You don't know me an I don't know you but it sort of makes me think that someone exposed you to something you shouldn't have seen/experienced ect at an age when your mind could not process or understand anything but the physical aspect of it??? Jus...

Born2die, I'm really sorry that these things happened to you. You did not deserve for the people who were supposed to love you to hurt you and take away your safety and sense of worth. Takes a lot of courage to get that out there in the open and in print. Those things they did to you were wrong. But...

Chel, The excorcisms were pretty awful. We were... 8 the first time and maybe 12 the second time??? Although we can't be sure of age. The persons involved were well meaning of course but uneducated as far as mental health is concerned. We forgive them. They did what they knew how to do with what the...

Hi Stacy Can relate to some of what you said and especially the part about not having many friends and feeling alone. Only joined this board yesterday or the day before perhaps since we were up late into the next day, we could go back and look but we are too lazy. LOL Found the name of the accompany...

Thank you, your warm welcomes are appreciated :) I am often up at night lately so that's great to know as the other forum we participate in seems to be most active in the evenings around 4pm to 9 pm. And we are occupied with our children about that time. They are watching a movie at the moment so we...