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

I am 26 and haven't been intimate or even struck up a casual friendship with a women in 4 years now. I had 3 different sexual partners for brief periods in my early 20's, all of the encounters ended pretty terribly and entirely put me off the idea of being in a relationship. I feel like I just misse...

Today, I flaked out at my job and left early without telling anyone. I knew if I asked, they wouldn't let me go so I just took the opportunity since I couldn't stand being there any longer. Well, I got caught. My boss called me on the phone asking where I was and I said I was still there even though...

I finally got a full time job working as a janitor for a museum over the past year. It's a fun environment to work in and there are a lot of cool exhibits to look at. I'd enjoy it a lot more if I didn't have to deal with a boss. Not the 'higher ups', but the people who work directly above me. It's b...

recently I've been thinking back to the days of high school when so many girls seemed to express interest in me but I could never take it anywhere. I would talk to them for hours online and then the next day when I saw them in person could barely say 'hi'. I overanalyzed the hell out of any situatio...

Today, two things came out in the news that really upset me. The first is that they released the 911 calls from the day of the Newtown massacre last year. Though I've been hearing it reported all over the web and TV, I have no desire to try to put myself in those helpless victims shoes that day by l...

I hate this guy we invited over for thanksgiving last night. He married a close family friend of ours and knocked her up, so we're stuck with him. Ever since the first time I saw him, I knew I hated this guy. This guy is an asshole, this guy laughs at his own jokes loudly and for way too long, this ...

can't even remember the last time I flirted with a girl, and I haven't been intimate with anyone in 3 years. I kind of just gave up after several experiences throughout high school and college left me sour as to what women expect from me and why I can't offer it. I got exhausted by my search for lov...

I know this doesn't necessarily have to do with The Mental Illness Happy Hour, but I think the subject is relevant since it's what got us all here, and I've been having some mental issues associated with starting this show. First of all, I hate my own voice and always have. I've never really learned...

We had a couple of kids come over to our house on Halloween who I hadn't seen in a few years and they'd grown so big! It's amazing how fast you see someone go from a baby, to a toddler, to a snot nosed kid.. when we become adults, we're used to classifying the people we associate with as in stasis- ...

I have an intense sexual attraction to a friend's mom, to where I've been waking up fantisizing about her for the past few weeks. I've known her my whole life and can't remember a time when I didn't find her beautiful. I started to think about her sexually when I became a teenager and she would go o...