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

thanks for the info, ladysquid. i haven't been able to work up any motivation to find a way to get myself there, and i think that's probably for the best. i just imagine the anxiety i'd have in a strange city would prevent me from enjoying the event, as much as i really want to go. and i dont have a...

I really want to go to this event because it's the closest he's going to come to where I live (next state over, Vermont) but I'm stressing out about how to get there without driving. I have a car but I really don't feel comfortable using it in big cities and I've been told that it's really stressful...

this weekend has been utter shit, but it was like all the little elements of a bad day all snuck up on me until POOF. on saturday night, my dad had a heart attack and my mom went with him to the ER. i stayed up with my sisters until 3am, but there wasn’t much news so there wasn’t anything to do, rea...

Joekababazae, thank you for sharing. OMG do I feel this one a lot, especially this section here: At night he wanders down to the kitchen, an illusion of hunger, insatiable greed. The fridge is opened with ravenous excitement, shoving down food that he does not need It is so difficult to move past us...

Thank you for sharing this ^^ It sounds like one of those beautiful moments one can only have when alone. (I'm stuck imagining the smell of wet grass...)

So, I'm visiting my long distance gf in her home country. Anyway, she's in a support group for her addiction (AA) Because some of the meetings are open, I've been going with her, partially for support and because I just want to know more and I related to addiction in general. I've been considering O...

@moe -- I like what you said about procrastination. I mean, I know it's not healthy, but I never thought about it that way. This week is my week to "get things done" including cleaning and phone calls I've been putting off. I hate doing them, but i like how I feel when it's done, and I gue...

I keep posting in this diary because I am nervous to venture into the rest of the forum ^^ I will, eventually. Right now, it's 5am where I am, and I've been awake for half an hour for no reason. I don't know if the meds mess up my sleep schedule, or if it's just my depression. I've been sleeping a L...

Around Wednesday Last week I had a really difficult time. I was talking to my girlfriend over Skype and said how sometimes I feel like I don't exist, and then it turned into this whole conversation where she thinks my meds aren't working and I'm not supposed to be feeling this way so much. (Thankful...

I made the mistake of looking up the signs of codependency on a bunch of different websites, and then I took a bunch of quizzes and read a bunch of checklists and halfway convinced myself that I am codependent, that my relationship with my girlfriend is more fucked up than anything else in my life, ...