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

Can you elaborate on this a bit? If someone has come to know you after some time, how does a label like ASPD or NPD change things? Why would someone go no-contact on the basis of that without anything further? How does that work? Why wouldn't it change things? The person thought they knew you, they...

If you are a typical example of ASPD, then ASPD-people are more likely to be <my> kind of people, compared to "normies". I am used to "normies" who can fake remorse for their own advantage, and the poor people who they have wronged drift out of heads of the "normies" a...

Am I an expert? No. Am I someone who actually has the condition the internet demonizes and mischaracterizes in often contradictory ways? Yes. As someone who actually has ASPD, and someone who is very tired of people using cliches from fiction to characterize the condition, I am here to offer my serv...

The hatred that came with this lives on to this day. I feel like a monster or evil creature for having such anger and hatred towards my parents and brother. Something I was thinking about the other day, which my therapist actually agree with, is that anger is not inherently bad. In order to be angr...

It might feel like you are a “monster” from the inside, but what you describe is not the path of a monster. Happy to read your whole post. Please take care, all blessings to you, all strength to you, and all courage to you. My gut instinct is to say, 'you don't know that'. But a more rational part ...

Right, so. Normally in real life I throw some jokes out to try and make the tension less thick and disguise my mental health issues, but I doubt that'd be appreciated here. Hello, my name is Jory - well, my nickname is Jory, my actual name is so grating to me I wouldn't tell it to anyone if not lega...