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

Wasn't sure where I could post it. Hoping someone will see it. I was loooking for anyone who have had experience with DBS. (deep brain stim). It kind of scares me, But I have chronic (refractory of course) struggles... mainly the most visible issue has been my lifetime of eating disorder, but the an...

may have to go to yet another treatment facility... not well. the exercise is breaking down my body yet it is the only thing helping me survive

sad to see i posted this initially so many months ago.and yet it's still such a struggle. I spend 4-6 hours a day exercising (compulsively) at the gym. If I don't stick with my comfortable routines/rituals in my life (outside the gym), my anxiety is unbearable. (yes i am on meds for this - have grea...

Brooke, your words meant a lot actually. It made me feel as if you really do understand a lot of how I am feeling, even though I didn't elaborate a whole lot in my garbled post, I feel like I am plummeting toward the ground, and I am terrified of how i may crash. i cannot afford more time off work. ...

feel like a bug being squashed by someone's heavy shoe on top of me. Everything is so heavy. Everything is so hard... everything. Stress is unmanageable ANXIETY is debilitating (almost)... and I don't know the last time i genuinely laughed. I'd say I am the walking dead - with no feelings of happine...

i am low depression is ugly so tired of trying to convince people im ok with laughs and smiles while i am barely able to follow a conversation. i watch it all happening around me - life.... but I feel nothing. Like I am behind a screen with my dead soul... wondering how it would feel to be out of th...

Just wanted to do a quick update in case anyone ever sees this thread. I finally started the XANAX XR last week. My anxiety was continuing to spike late morning, early afternoon and would often reach a nearly debilitating point by mid afternoon, despite being on Klonopin since spring. I am on a lot ...

agree with FifthSonata. You need to find an ed specialist. I'm your age and still struggling very much with my ed (this means in and out of hospitals since 1987 and I've never NOT been in therapy and on meds) It is very common for ed's to be comorbid with anxiety or depression and obsessive compulsi...

Just to update, for myself... after three months on medical leave, and then a couple months of part time (increasing to more hours every couple weeks, I finally am cleared to resume my job at full time hours) What a hard spring/summer it was dealing with all this awfulness - the anxiety/depression/O...

I sure do wish I could trust my brain to make healthy decisions for my body. I am sick today and trying to lay off the heavy exercise.... which is a huge challenge. i hate when others comment on my body or say they admire my "dedication" to exercise regularly. I wish I could explain that t...