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

As someone who pukes at least once every time I move I can definitively say that anxiety and stress can cause nausea. I also experience the waves you are talking about whenever people yell in the house and I can't tell what they are saying. Like what the Jolly Green Giant said this is obviously rela...

First of all thank you for sharing this! I work in a hospital, as a secretary really, but I see my fair share of advanced directives. Establishing an advanced directive is something everyone should really do, but even more so if you have any chronic medical conditions, been hospitalized, or are plan...

The fact that you have gone and continue to see a doctor and a chiropractor says that you are vested in your health, so I think the next step is to go and see a counselor. Regardless of whether or not your neck pain and migraines are related to stress, a counselor can give you tools to cope with str...

I read this article on NPR's website and I thought it would be a good one to share: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/06/310087402/addicted-and-pregnant-the-most-heart-wrenching-experience-of-my-life?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&ut...

This post has been on replay in my head for the past week. I had a week of the strongest most breaking anxiety I have felt in a long time. Or at least it feels like it has been a long time. I find with anxiety I always think it is the worst I have ever had and that it will never end and I will be in...

Hey SB, You said it yourself, the boy you fell in love with is not there. He is now locked behind walls of his own aggression and he will not be coming back from there. That betrayal you feel, the repulsion and fear you feel when he tries to hug and kiss you, are telling you something. It is complet...

Thanks for the response. I ended up not contacting him. One of the reasons I decided not to call him was what you said Weary, that I needed to think about what things I would like to say to him. I ended up trying to write something down that I would like to say to him. I couldn't think of anything I...

I could really really use some feedback on this one. My Biological Father who I have not spoken with for over five years broke his hip and is now going into surgery. I got a text early this morning from my sister who kept in contact with him. I texted her back and asked what happened, but she didn't...

Heya Sherlock, I had what I would call a "grey childhood". I was hungry, but there was food there at least! The house was always covered in filth, but at least I had a house. My Father would yell and throw things at me, but at least they never hit and I wasn't ever molested. But you know w...

Hey Sherlock, Thanks for the response to this. I do appreciate everything you said, and I think you were right on track with it. It is now a little over a week since I posted that, but it kind of took that long for me to be able to come back and even look at this post. When I made this post it was p...