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

You can just have a normal conversation, and at the end of it, they'll eye you. Show you what they truely think about you. Remind you of how a week or two ago you binged.

sometimes I wish I had no feelings. They should invent a button that puts you into "machine mode". They just stand in your way of survival. I talked with someone are work who I realy admire. In retrospect, I sounded really stupid in the conversation. I really just feel live groveling to he...

just the little things in life that wear me: fighing with my kid about really stupid things because we are rushing. not being listened to in a conversation, feeling dimissed, feeling invisible. passive agreesivness of the girls at work - rolling there eyes if I said something weird, or tmi, that's a...

manuel_moe_g you and I could do an "i regret of".

sound like an excellent meditation result!

Hi Sherlock,

It was a nice surprise to see your reply.

All the shit I wrote about at work was stuff from my previous work place, that I still ruminate about

Today I think I am in a much better place.

Thanks so much for listening, your comments are helpful.

Thanks manuel_moe_g!

The party went well. I had tears in my eyes when the kindergarden teacher asked my baby what she likes to do best with me and she said to read stories.
Thant's the thing I love to do most with her- read.

my daughter is celebrating her birthday today in day care. I have to be there, beautiful, perky, sweet, happy. I don't feel that way at all. I'm down. I compare myself to the 2 other moms who are celebrating as well, and I feel inferior. Her dress has some small stains .... i feel like a bad mother....

p.s I just remembered another thought in this vain. I think the world is just full of rigidity and aggression. Maybe it's the part of the world where I'm from I don't know. Maybe my mentality is somehow not compatible. But just looking at what people write anonyamously and non anonymously on line......

I want to give some examples of how I am an oversensitive person or critical person I am. I mean just like the most mundane things that people say and do can really hurt me. I'll give this example: suppose I send an email at work, I write in it "see attached", but I forget to attach. As a ...