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

Background info: I'm an 18 year old girl who takes Effexor and hormonal birth control pills I went to a new psychiatrist last week and she was from the South and had a big bejeweled cross around her neck. In asking me a bunch of questions, she sounded VERY disproving when I told her I smoke pot and ...

My all time favoite is Modest Mouse. If you don't listen to Modest Mouse when you're depressed you're missing out - Polar Opposites. Whenever You Breathe Out. Alone Down There. 3rd Planet. My favorite is probably Bankrupt On Selling, it sums up feeling hopeless quite nicely. other good ones are Iron...

The only body issue I really have is insecurity about my scars. I have these two huge, pretty gnarly vertical scars the length of the insides of my forearms from a suicide attempt. It's pretty obvious what they are, they don't really get mistaken for accident or self harm scars. Sometimes really rud...

So I take 75mg of Effexor XR, and it works really well for me. Prior to going on it I tried a lot of others, prozac, wellbutrin, lexapro, ect. All of them gave me unbearable side effects. But my shitty psychiatrist at the time failed to tell me anything about Effexor when she put me on it. She didn'...

Hi guys. I'm a brand new listener, I've been listening to a lot of old episodes and I'm so glad I found the podcast. There's something in every episode I relate to and it's just great. I'm an 18 year old girl with severe depression. I take a pretty high dose of Effexor XR and it works really well fo...