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

Hugs. I love your point about this being one of the only places where you'll get attention on the internet without posing in your undies. So true! I can totally relate to your isolation, difficulty in reaching out, and lack of transportation. I can drive, but it does me no good when I'm car sharing ...

Thanks, oak. It helps so much just to put it all out there, like sucking the poison out of a snakebite, almost. It still hurts, but it feels less like it's going to kill me. (For the record, regardless of how little regard I have for myself, I know that I am very important to many people, and I woul...

Hi all. I've been listening to the podcast for about a year now, but am just now signing up for the Forum. I started listening while at work to pass the time and find a way to relate to people who share the same struggle as I do. My life has been turned upside down in the last two years, beginning w...

Wow. This is exactly how I feel, cem. I have two little girls, 4 and 3, and I love them, but I feel like I'm fucking them up constantly. I don't spank them (I'm afraid I'll turn into my mother, who went crazily overboard with physical discipline), but I find myself yelling and it scares me. I wake u...