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

I live in Philly so I'd be interested in a meet up on this coast!!

ghughes1980... I did a few things that helped. CLOTHING I stopped looking at all sizes of clothes. I held them up to me in a mirror or just looking down and bought the clothes I felt would fit me. In the beginning I bought clothes WAY too big and slowly over time, learned to gague my size accuratelt...

Sometimes I find I get too excited or too passionate or too raunchy or joking in my banter and freak others out. I feel things so deeply all the time that it's incredibly powerful. It's part of what makes me a good therapist, empath, or friend. But it can also get me hurt when I invest so deeply in ...

There were definitely times in the high tides of my eating disorder when I was so dysmorphic that I would look a the mirror in terror and not recognize my face. I felt like I was looking at a moving picture of this alien. Everything was so intensely contrasted and foreign and frightening. This was i...

I have been on Cymbalta for years. In the beginning I felt dizzy and had hot flashes for a month then POOF gone! I felt incredible. It completely helped with my anxiety, body dysmorphia, paranoia, and depression. I do have to get my liver checked yearly and my blood is thinner because of it. I am se...

SNRI's tend to be gentler and cause less side effects that last such as weight gain and dizziness. I am on cymbalta. In the beginning I was completely freaked out and suspicious. I felt a little dizzy for a week and had mad hot flashes for a month. but after that, I felt incredible. Complete 180 on ...

To reiterate: good job standing up for yourself!

I hope that you know keeping your distance from him is OK and doesn't make you a bad person. He's toxic for you and you are best to stay away from people who make you feel so infuriated.

Yeah, I think we definitely all have these parts of our body that can distinguish us. To others it's something the casually notice but to us, we become these caricatures in the mirror with enormous noses or pimples as big as volcanoes. I think I legitimately drew a self portrait when I was 106 lbs a...

For years and years I struggled with body dismorphia. I had no idea that that term pertained to me until I got more into my recovery. When you are in it, you are completely and utterly blind to the reality of your body. You see almost a cartoon circus mirror of yourself where everything you feel ins...