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

Paul, without in any way intending to nanner you or be mean, I must say that I'm sorry you don't know who Ram Dass is. Or maybe I'm happy for you that you have his wonderful compendium of teachings to dive into for the first time as an adult. Ram Dass was named Richard Alpert until adulthood. He was...

Ooh, yeah, self pity is a good one. I was mentioning to a friend the other day that I have to keep close tabs on myself when I'm depressed because I know that I will set up a situation in which the other person is bound to let me down, and then I'll feel fully justified in my self-pity. For example:...

Yes, when Danielle said that, I was reminded of something Norman Fischer said once in a small seminar I attended on grief. He said that he thinks that there are certain people who feel the emotions of the world in an unfiltered way, kind of the way we talk about autistic people not being able to fil...