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

Paul mentioned how this episode would be appreciated by those listeners who feel that too many of the guests have everything figured out and my wife worried that we sounded like we didn't have any problems anymore. Neither my therapist nor my wife nor I would ever claim that I don't have any problem...

They certainly know that I know at least some of what's happened. When I brought it up I was told that I "don't know what you would expose". I'm sure, after the local authorities contacted them to investigate the abuse, that they are aware that I'm willing to speak up. The bar for the auth...

In a general sense I can see how a person, even those in my family of origin, could deserve sympathy for their own trauma, even if it led to them inflicting trauma on others. But in specific my experience with them was too horrific for me to be the one feeling sympathy for them. My nieces are attend...

Hi, I'm Michael D. You may remember me from such things as episode 114. I intended to introduce myself on the forum as soon as it aired. However, beyond a reply or two on the topic of 114 I've been completely absent. The two months since my ep dropped have been eventful and overwhelming. I've had so...

There are days when I am proud of being a survivor. But there are also days when I am ashamed of still being broken. It has got better for me but that's not to say that it's not still a struggle. It's hard to ignore the feeling that I'm the only one who struggles, that everyone else is just breezing...

I don't know why the age of twenty-five stuck in my head. It wasn't some sort of milestone like the turn of the century or anything. Perhaps that was what my brain thought was an "adult" and that was why it chose that age. Coincidentally, my twenty-fifth birthday was pretty much my lowest ...