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

I realize some people will get cranky with me for this but are serious? You are a "nanny" or playing at one and you actually feel a 6 year old is an asshole? and you think she can't tell how you feel? if you think you are hiding it, then try listening to even one podcast about how adults i...

Sorry, Hugs, Hold on. This is an awful awful place and no words can change that, but you are not alone in this battle of grief. When you are ready, try these sites: Alliance for Hope, forum, links, studies http://www.allianceofhope.org/ Fiercegoodbye.com tips for the newly bereaved and later bereave...

Just seeing this but I hope things will get better for you soon. You are brave in addressing all of this, but it must be exhausting. Don't lose hope, you only have to tackle one day in any given day. You mentioned animals? what animals do you have? Animals can be very comforting. what ways do you nu...

Thanks Ziggy, but perspective is like anything else, we have to earn it the hard way.

Many states, including Colorado and Illinois, make standard forms available and there are sites that go into detail about what specifics you can add or subtract based on your preferences. Name 3 in order, not all at once, but successive as in an emergency, there is often someone hard to reach. Be cl...

Do NOT be so hard on yourself. You sound like you are facing a lot of emotional/mental health issues and the fact that as a BPD sufferer, you sustained a relationship that long is already an accomplishment. It ended. Do not read too much into the comments on facebook, because there are so many possi...

Hi Do not worry about the "label" of what you have and focus on: what are you feeling, how do you want to feel and how do we get you from here to there, "we" being whatever support you have, be it family, therapist, doctor, pets, hobbies, friends, the forum. What it sounds like t...

Hey, holidays are tough even in loving close families, add dysfunction and the intensity good and bad goes higher. these people who reject you are biological but not family. This is a real power play - whether it is your mother using the holiday and your ex to make some statement to you about measur...

Oh, so sorry that this is going on. It sounds like there is a lot of pain and love there and I can't imagine how tough it must be to be waiting for a response. Did you get confirmation she got it? is she an avoider in general? Remember, you can't control her response, the timing of it or any of that...

What an awful burden you must deal with and what an awful story. Of course you are traumatized - are you seeing someone about your PTSD? Is there a support group near you that deals just with that? I think most any of us project our fears on our kids, and fear our inadequecy to always be there and p...