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

Awakening Cold, bones chilled to the marrow, I lay still. How long…I don’t know. Silence, my ears ache with listening. If only a sound would penetrate this dark place, a sign that I’m not alone. I cannot look left or right. My eyes focus on blackness, eyes that do not blink, eyes that do not close. ...

The twenty one year old woman that enjoyed being a woman, wearing dresses, being a housewife etc.

Wonderful. If she would be willing to adopt, rather than raise a child from birth, she would be the perfect woman.

I will marry you, my dear.

This was a very interesting read. I would rather like to see what goes on in your head. True or false: I find myself pacing around the house for hours at a time trapped in a thought pattern about things that have not happened yet, and may never happen I find myself bored almost all day every day I p...

I can share the personal space issue, i just cannot understand why people feel the need to stand so close to me when speaking. I often back off slightly, to which they close the gap, and shortly afterwards i physically push them a foot or so back. Can be socially awkward to push people back a few fe...

Towards my teen years, leading to my early twenties, i was pretty angry all the time. I used to get into bar fights as often as i could, punching peoples faces in on a weekly basis, and after a while, i just mellowed. I didn't see the point anymore and now my fuse is pretty long. Primarily only four...

I'm no professional, i am sure that someone more qualified will answer you better than i can, that said: 1. Hypnotism was the first thing that sprang to mind. 2. Having an anger outlet was the second. Something violent, boxing maybe, that way you will not have to punish yourself if you make mistakes...

Addressing the first post you made. Putting the childhood abuse aside entirely; would it not be healthy to find a sexual partner that is more than happy to allow you to dominate him/her? Outside of the sex, your partner would likely be as emotionally bruised as you are and likely very understanding,...

The flashback scenario, the first post on this...thread?, is interesting. I wonder if you could have it medically induced in order to relive the entire event several times in order to desensitize you to it. If it no longer bothers you, then it shouldn't trigger the PTSD, should it? http://en.wikiped...

You cannot just become a Sociopath.

That is like becoming black, or becoming a giraffe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hon3AzMO6vs

I am Zed. I wrote a lot here, recounting what i thought to be the important events of my life leading up to this point, but after reading back through it, it was all irrelevant and so i will just put this: I am a Psychopath, i prefer that term over Sociopath since the latter sounds more as though i ...