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

I get that, but perhaps in a different way. Humans are mostly apt at counting, quantifying and categorising stuff, but when it comes to having to manage finances, it’s overwhelming the way your mind makes you compare with other people and perhaps drive you to feel like you’re doing something wrong. ...

And now,

falling in love and feeling depressed due to expecting it to end up badly. Though there’s little reason.

That’s a vicious circle...

I wish I knew the way to escape the self-fulfilling prophecies.

I wish I could get rid of the ambiguities in my life. They’re everywhere.

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donkarp , thanks for your response and I wish you all the best. However, with all due respect, I have worked in neurobiology labs and study biological sciences at uni, there’s no chance of me buying that there’s no chemical link to mental illness. This might come across as agitated, and that is bec...

Thanks for the responses! It’s been a long time since I last logged in to the forum. But the responses and the validation always seems so heartening; it’s nice to be heard and to connect. Thank you, manuel_moe_g , for the book recommendation—it took me long, but I’m checking out Eckhart Tolle now. S...

Hi all. I wanted to share this, though I have no idea if it makes any sense written out... I’m currently suffering from ME (sometimes called chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia syndrome... the names are many and there’s debate over the overlaps and differences). I’ve always been skeptical to ap...

Dear MichaelHung , I've had this feeling, too. The heaviness of it, for me, comes when I am unable to gather the strength to get up, but fail, at the same time, to sleep through it. I pace through my room and typically keep thinking, what have I done in life? What is my value as a human being? Why s...

serenity88, thank you. Reading your response made me feel so much better today. I reassure myself there are compassionate people everywhere, but it always helps a great deal to actually hear some kind words, to the effect that I'm not a fraud. It makes me feel good to know that there are people who ...

Thank you for this, mouse. It keeps getting worse. I don't know whether there is anything at all novel to write on this topic. It is as if I'm attracting pity for the reasons I have already written. Nothing new, nothing interesting. But I'm doing it anyway because I just want to write about it somew...

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Thanks. Especially for that last paragraph. Well, new ones're here: I'm afraid the very core of me doesn't want to get healed, because I will never be ready to be healthy. I'm afraid I will fail school. I'm afraid I won't be able to get a job. I'm afraid I won't have a healthy relationship, ever. I'...