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

I'm so sorry Mareda. I have seen two cats pass within the last several years, one in a traumatic accident and one from kidney disease. Even the second was no less emotionally wrenching on me than the first. I am so glad that Kittyman was purring and happy near the end, but I know how much that loss ...

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It's so tough when you don't have the support network of family or friends around. Is your support group helping a lot in that respect? and I sincerely hope that this week is better than when you posted.

In Brene Brown's books (on shame and perfectionism) she distinguishes between the two in a way that really rang true for me: Guilt is about something you did, while shame is about who you are. I think for a lot of us shame is linked to what we see as our identity.

Lilac, have you spoken with her again since your post? I had to go through something similar because I was seeing PhD students of counselling for free in a clinic, and they were on short-term rotations, so several times I had to "wrap things up" by the end of summer / the semester. Which o...

I'm so so sorry moonlight, that must be terrifying and devastating. Please if you need to talk to someone let us know.

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to post in the forum for a long time but was wary. I'm a Canadian queerish woman in my mid-twenties and just finished my Master of Arts in a humanities field. I come to you now in the lull, no longer a student for the first time in my life, facing unemployment. I've st...