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

Thank you, cpa. I actually began to work on better sleep habits last night. I will try to incorporate some light exercises in as well.

When you are depressed and/or have anxiety, how do you build healthy habits such as exercise, eating healthy, sleeping healthy, practicing gratitude, meditate and all those other things which are good for you? Slowly and one thing at the time, I'm sure, but I always seem to become overwhelmed anyway...

By the way, I'm really sorry to hear what you're going through and hope you find the help you need!

Agreed, it seems quite a bit of therapy is concerned with finding seminal moments or sources of depression. But there truly doesn't have to be a reason other than a chemical imbalance in the brain or a barrage of daily irrational thoughts (for instance)... and that's reason enough! I just did a quic...

Thank you, hedgewitch. Yes, quite a hoot that train is. Thank you for the welcome.

I totally relate to not feeling worthy of being in therapy and not having a "valid reason". I was also searching up and down my timeline for that particular moment which fostered my depression and anxiety and I couldn't find it. Sure, a lot of bad stuff happened but I couldn't connect them...

Greetings everyone, Glad to be here and hope to learn and contribute. I'm 40, male and suffer from different types of anxiety (general, social and creative), depression, trust issues and am also overly concerned with my appearance. My current situtation is one of unemployment and crappy finances. I ...