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

So I made the decision this week to stop seeing my current therapist, I know... I know.... After a very unsuccessful session that knocked me out for the rest of the week I started doing some new research. Today I'm in the fragile place where I know I could fallback down at any moment. I found an art...

Hi Churble, Just left a therapy session feeling quite unaccomplished and misunderstood. Reading your post makes me a feel a little more sane though. I can relate to the bullying parents as well as bullying siblings. It has left me without a tool in the shed to help me now. My session today was all a...

Thank you for your thoughts Tom. I am a journal person, but more recently it has been difficult to write. Ironically the last thing I wrote was a letter to my father that I did not intend to send. And amusingly it was after listening to your episode :D Your approach certainly inspired me, but after ...

Ok, more thoughts. So far each time I write something I keep on thinking back that I did not actually say everything I was trying to. One thing is in regards to your mother and her religious background. I grew up with deeply religious parents, though I would not consider them spiritual. I'm gonna pr...

When I first posted this the other week I immediately regretted it. I convinced myself someone I know would recognize me and the truth would come spilling out. Or that I may have come across as needy and selfish. To hear your words come so freely feels good. The emotional abuse you have been through...

I am not familiar with Wellbutrin, but I am familiar with everything else you have mentioned. When I was between the ages of 10-12 I attempted suicide 4 times, and one of them was with a noose. Granted that was before the days of the internet and so my knot was just a sad twisted thing that knocked ...

I've been wanting to participate in the forum as I have been slowly going through the archive of episodes, having a voice for myself is very difficult though. I've gone to the website many times now and just froze when I actually got to the forum page. This has been a problem my entire life and yet ...