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

Been a while. It's cuz something amazing happened. It's not that this community hasn't been good, but I just happened upon something. It was a community I found through a person I just happened to know through the punk scene who as it turns out is autistic and a lesbian: someone gave her a link to a...

I don't recall ever getting scolded for laughing during those times. You know, I almost anticipated you'd find his negativity funny. See, for one, you wouldn't have anything else to compare it to--and two, there's plenty of media on the "cranky old man" being funny, rather than scary and ...

OMG. I NEED TO JUST START EDITING MY POSTS, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

I AM AN ADULT. I MEANT WHEN I MOVE OUT AND HAVE MONEY OF MY OWN.

... When I wrote "scale," I meant "skill." :shock: This keeps happening to me since I've been on meds and going off alcohol addiction; I used to be so ON IT with words and now I'm making WEIRD, WEIRD mistakes like that. I was writing something yesterday and seriously wrote "...

... Actually I do make friends with old guys. :doh: One of my really close friends is probably in or closing in on his fifties; I felt very doted upon when a local music venue guy just... put his hand on my head when I said something kind of funny/ambitious, and really like talking to him cuz he tre...

Bah, called my step dad by his name n accident; oh well. :/ Also I am very happy that I grew up with a step dad, mom, and biological father who all appreciate the different arts; it definitely makes me different, even if it used to feel really alienating. I like that I grew up surrounded by painting...

What was your step dad's life like growing up? Do you know what kind of people his parents were? Oh my god. Worthy of a drama--stage, screen, or TV. His mother was highly depressive; when she got upset, she'd bring out funeral clothes. Eventually she was in and out of mental institutions (this woul...

Also he's pretty much never yelled at me. At worst, he's very brusque when he tells us to do something--no pleases, just "do this." When my brother was helping clean the house by cleaning some of the mirrors, he repeated a dozen times for him to be careful of this one mirror's gold paint o...

Yes, she still unburdens me about my step dad. Part of me likes it because there's some things I don't know about him until I ask her. So I ask questions like, "So why does he do X?" Like, why doesn't he help pay for me and my brother's schooling when he totally has the money? Answer from ...

You're so in the clouds of despair you don't realize how many people out there want to help you; people right now voicing our concerns on this forum. People out there you've never met before. People in your family you don't think you deserve to reach out to. You are not crap for eating badly, and yo...