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

"Being a lifelong ADDer, I immediately put a note in my phone to contact Andrew and thank him for speaking. Naturally, I still have not followed up."


Ha ha ha ha, amen, I feel your pain.

Don't assume that just because others can get married etc, that they are normal. I think most people have some sort of demon biting them from time to time. You say that many of your co-workers don't know who you really are, are you sure that you really know who these folks you think are normal are &...

I was in a similar place to where you are when I was of typical college age. Trying to do something you love isn't all its cracked up to be all the time. I tried to do that for the past couple years and failed spectacularly, and now I can't even do them in my off time I am set back so far. So there ...

Bee you must have hacked my brain because that is exactly my story. I skated through High School, never developed any study skills and then when I got to college crumbled. Now I feel so angry and resentful that so many of my classmates who were less successful then (and likely much less intelligent)...