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

I second the comment about the blog. Pick a name for it that doesn't tie you to it and make yourself anonymous. If you have FB and stuff never post anything that you'd not want an employer to see. I avoid political stuff and anything that might get them thinking "do we really want to hire this ...

I've been working on the boundaries, setting them has been tough for me. I've made it two full days, maybe it's working. Haven't heard from them but I got a slew of txts from other family members that I just deleted.

Nice to have a few days off out of the rat race.

I really don't think people do. The mom issue keeps a lot of people in therapy. He's still in, might be released Wednesday if all goes well. Mom saw him for a bit today when they met with a social worker, mom didn't say what happened but she sounded mad, so I guess the SW suggested something she did...

Ryeish here, hello all. About myself. Raised in the NE US in a fairly mixed up family. Mom's side is a huge Italian family, very very close. Dad's side wasn't. Gpa was fairly quiet and withdrawn, gma is bitter and not too fun to be around. She's Quebecois, really hates my mom still after 50+ years o...

I'm in my late 40s, dad mid 70s. But his mom issue has been going on a long time. I cut off most contact when I couldn't deal with his narcissistic attitude anymore. For me I'd just tell him to knock it the hell off but when he started that on my daughter I put my foot down. If they want to talk to ...

My family is still a huge trigger for me. I can plan to visit them and be in a great mood but within ours of visiting my mood goes to hell and I have to escape. Once they visited me here and after a few hours I was violently ill. They left the next day and I felt better quickly. But still, even a ca...

trying too. folks cancelled visit, dad later ended up in a psych ward. :\ no idea WTF is going on, they're not saying anything.

dad has been treated for depression for a long long time. lots of it is family issues, he hates his mother and the focus of his life is his mother. every conversation involves him spending an hour ranting about what an evil person she is. yesterday he went off the handle about her, left his home and...

The last few weeks have been rough. Work has been a nightmare. Thankfully I've been applying for other jobs, which gives me a little boost when I hit the submit application button. I don't mind what I do but I spend my day dealing with people's problems (I work in IT) and I'd love to receive a call ...