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

Hi bocephus! I've never really considered the emotional connection I've had with food. Like, not even when I was originally writing this topic. Probably because I was thinking of the absence of food rather than the food itself. Or how eating the food makes me feel. :think: I'll look up the book you ...

I've made a commitment to myself to start getting myself in shape, but whenever I think about it my mind goes from "you can start by doing 5 sit-ups when you wake up" to "you can stop eating." And that worries me and it doesn't because I know I'm going to eat, no matter what, but...

Thank you for responding. I normally don't argue with other members on the boards, but I need to say a few things. I understand the kindness and the compassion behind labeling yourself an ally, but cisgendered heterosexuals make for a pretty poor LGBT support system. A support system should be knit ...

I've never been confident in my ability to connect with another human being. I'm shy. I mumble. I don't hear very well, so I end up hearing the most bizarre things. I have trouble keeping conversations going, and I don't always like the silence that creates. And that kinda sucks. Like, that really, ...

I've been living in England for the past year and it's not been perfect. I've not made the friends I've wanted. I've not gotten the jobs I wanted. I wanted to find a girlfriend, but I could barely maintain a second conversation long enough to make anyone interested in me as a friend, let alone a rom...

The following is a prose poem that I've been working with on-and-off for the past year. I finally got it to the point that I don't mind letting others see it and I thought you guys would enjoy. If you have any critiques or ideas, please let me know! :) On Memories Gallium masks bob in black water a...

I was just wondering, 'cause normally I just go there and sit and see if someone shows up and people normally don't. Like, I'm in a different country than you guys, so I don't know if it's the time difference and people are in there but it's when I'm asleep, but it would be nice to know roughly when...

Hiya. Just wondering, like, if we were gonna use the chat group, when would be hanging out there?

I don't know if what you described is exactly the same, but it did sound a bit like what I was feeling. Like, the idea that I could leave at any moment, and that the days are just blurring into one another. But it's not exactly like what you described because it didn't feel like I was just going thr...

So I've been feeling very unmoored lately. Very homeless and distant and drifting and impactless and I don't know what this feeling is? I thought it was because I was in a different country, but then I went home for Christmas and I still felt this way. I mean, it wasn't the best Christmas in the wor...