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

I've been in a great place of late but I can see the signs of a low level mania creeping in. Unfortunately, since I have spotted it coming, it's given up the sneak attack and pounced full hilt tonight. I am typical hypersensitive to my sleep schedule (bed by 9-10, up at 6-7). I count 11:30 as a late...

When I first really started showing symptoms at 18, I was ultra rapid cycling. In the span of a day I would be the strong as fuck independent that could handle everything (I just needed to try harder) and within a few hours I would be meticulously planning my suicide. I was such an anxious wreck I w...

I am a happy, (mostly) stable, Bi-polar, recovering cutter in her late 20s. I am extremely happy with my job, my living situation, my love life, my creative brain, and myself. So why am I sitting in my happy kitchen with my loving friends silently contemplating how I can excuse myself to go play wit...