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

I am self diagnosis with adhd and am really struggling. When I am talking with someone I feel like I jump around with topics and leave the conversation feeling guilty that perhaps I have said something to offend them or I just confused or lost them. I also have trouble with hyper focusing. When I ha...

I just wanted to mention that you don't have to have major trauma in your childhood to be impacted later in life. Everyone has something in the childhood that has effected them and the trauma can be small and it was traumatic to you! I was led to a website, www.clearmind.com and they talk about as c...

I am really sorry you are going through all of that. I, myself use to binge eat, but once I made the choice to seek help with a therapist about my complicated life and started addressing a whole lot of uncomfortable stuff, my focus had changed. I was addressing the reasons behind my eating habits. N...

Feeling alone is a very hard place to be. I can't relate to your situation, but I can relate to the feeling alone. Just a thought, maybe there are some support group for students that are abroad. I hope you find some friends and I am sending many hugs. HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS,...

Thanks for the reply, I actually homeschool my son, but go to a school once a week for homeschoolers to take classes. That is where the altercation happened. We are however changing school boards next year, which should be better. I do like the Montissori approach though and I plan on moving to a mo...

Omg, that really sounds like my son when he was little. Just like you we were at a loss of what to do. It was not until my husband heard about Aspergers, when my son was 4 that it clicked. My son would freak out at the slightest thing, like a drop of water on his face or get really angry when a walm...

I completely understand. The early years with with my child was very challenging for me. My husband had extreme anxiety and depression and I was pretty much a single parent. I went into autopilot and developed a lot of resentment toward my husband. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody, e...

Hi Wendy, I have been meaning to reply for a while, but in November I starting healing myself. I am going to therapy for myself and some for my son, but mostly for me and really trying to improve me. Thanks for the internet hug. It means a lot. I return it to you too. It is not an easy life, but I t...

I am not sure how old your son is and if he is old enough understand, but we have a rule in our house that if you are 16 or older you are aloud to swear. We do make some exceptions, which we have explained that if they really hurt themselves and they ask, we will often let them say one swear. We exp...

OMG Wendy, Your son sounds so similar to my son. The compliment thing has always bothered me. I would praise my son on doing a good job and he would get mad at me. Mostly do to the fact that he hus a perfectionist and if he can clearly see it is not perfect how could I praise him on it. He is gettin...