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

Hi, I haven't check this post in a while and it was a really nice surprise to see the support that was here waiting for me. I feel so scared that I even posted this and that it will come back to haunt me but instead I keep finding pieces of wisdom, support and connection. And you are all right about...

This was great, I felt like the author of the article really got it. No one really can understand what the aftermath of living with narcissistic parents is like. My father is a narcissist and my mother is a co-narc and made for such a horrifying childhood and was a nightmare well into my adulthood u...

This was an amazing episode, I am 3rd generation of a holocaust survivor and it was really helpful to hear Joel talk about his experience as a grandchild of a survivor and his perspective as a therapist. It made me understand where my hurt comes from living in a house with a rage filled father (chil...

very true and thank you too

I am sorry that you feel such shame around things that from what I read you learned from your mother and she probably learned that from another adult when she was a child. The reason it is so hard, I think is that we are judging our behavior from childhood with an adult brain that knows better. You ...

Thank you so much for writing that. It really makes me feel better.

Hi, So I am sitting here feeling so ashamed about some things I did as a young child and I have never done anything remotely like this as an adult but I just had a big reveal to my therapist and I am struggling with the guilt/shame. I did a few things to my brothers that I am really ashamed of, a fe...

HI, I 100% totally get what you went through and dealt with. My father is NPD also. Minus the major physical stuff that you got more of than me, the hitting stopped for me around age 5-6 (was a belt though...), I think because eventually he didn't need to hit, I was too scared of him. My younger bro...

Thank you for you "three cents", it is worth a ton more than that because I realize that I am not alone in this and other people totally get it.

Thank you for the hug, always nice... And yeah, it would be great to have a card that says what we are thinking. We were actually talking about that "you're an asshole, happy father's day" card in my support group. It would help take the whole I have to send one of those cards meant for a ...