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

Update-
got text message from child's therapist, got scolded for behavior.

She is absolutley right unforutantely, but for me it was devastating.

felt so shitty. called anonymous hotline to discuss.

now feel a little better.

I think today was one of the lowest points of my life.
I mean everything together, work, lonliness, parenthood, the almot accident it all came crashing down.

It must mean tomorrow will be better.

Thank you very much for taking part.

Thanks OAK.Good Idea - you mean work from home? good idea

Rest of day really bad, almost has an accident because of carelessness lost my cool with my daghuter because of anxiety about the accident.

So my boss indeed hates me. I have proof. It has been some mutual tension and resentment that has been built up for maybe years. When I returned I indeed found my desk filled with shit (not literarlly but pretty close :) Stuff that was taken from elswhere and put on my desk. She did not say one word...

We are after test, I am grateful.

My child is quarantined and I need to stay home with her My boss didn't make any effort to allow me to work from home despite it being a stressful season at work. I think she hates me. I wished her a good week and told her that I hope I will see her on Thursday. No one at work contacted me to ask wh...

I felt a lost of emptiness so I took a course in the open university. My life was on hold for a while, the course gave me lots of purpose and meaning. I just handed in my assignment and I feel a lot of emptiness. I had a phone call, when i found out it was my dad on the line with my older brother in...

I have some nagging thoughts about being taken advantage at work and they are not leaving me. I don't want to share because it is sort of dead end. I want these thoughts to take their course and after hearing the episode about narcissism I don't want to act like one. I don't think there is any good ...

Wow, thanks!!!

I feel down. I had some incident at work, I was sort of fishing for a compliment from my boss and didn't get it. Sort of broke me down, made me regret the whole career path of my life. I brake down easily. I like constatntly need to be told that I am smart and helpful. I feel that a lot of the time ...