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

When I was 16 my mother died. She had a brain aneurism at home with me, though I was in another part of the house. I got to witness her stumbling around and then the ride in the ambulance. She died a few days later in the hospital from brain swelling post-surgery. At some point I started having real...

I identify a lot with what others are saying here, like a desire for perfectionism, being undeserving of even the attention of others let alone love. Like sdjustinr, I often fantasize about just holding someone's hand, or a hug or being in proximity to someone who isn't squirming to get away from me...

I like to sum it up with this bit of dialogue from the film The Fifth Element : Officer: Sir, are you classified as human? Corbin Dallas: Uh, negative. I am a meat popsicle. I don't know the root cause, if it's a lack of self-esteem or some personality disorder or something but I feel like I have no...

Hello Scratch. I identify a lot with an inability to focus sometimes, with a brain like a pinball machine, and not working for a while after a breakdown.

I hope you share more with us, you are not alone.

I don't know if I'm an exercise addict, but I feel some compulsions around exercise and diet. I also feel extremely isolated being an adult male with these feelings. I fantasize about starving myself into oblivion one day and then the next I'll get in the gym and lift until every muscle is sore and ...

Paul, I have to say, the first time I heard you mention your "junk shame" on the podcast I got chills. I had a very similar situation to yours. When I was young (2-3 or something) I had un-descended testes that required surgery, then I injured myself and had an inguinal hernia at around th...

Hello, hopefully this thread is still active enough to help me out. I've been staring at this topic for about 2 hours trying to figure out what I should write. The good and bad thing about writing is that it helps to solidify an idea in your mind (as mentioned in one of the mini-episodes about Low S...

Greetings all, I've been a podcast listener for a while now and often toyed with joining the forum. I used to be big into forums about a decade or so ago but stopped after finishing high school. Hopefully I can remember how this all works. So a little bit of the key points, I'm a 29 year old America...