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

Welcome Dan, Scotland is amazing. I went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival when I was there and loved it. I hope group therapy and one and one go well for you. I am guessing it is DBT if you think you have borderline. The great thing about borderline PD is that you can learn new skills and change you...

Welcome to the site Kirk. How are the pain and psych meds making "reality" a difficult concept?

This is a warm place, where I don't think you will find many trolls.

That looks like a scary accident. I don't know if they have it over in Europe, but have you tried meetup.com ? In the States it is a great site to meet people with similar interests. They have them in all the major cities here. I suggest that would be a good way to cope with the loneliness. Hope the...

Why is she terminating it? I think your emotions are normal. You are sad, anxious and mad. You are coming to closing time with someone who you have an important connection with so it makes sense. You are sad about it ending. Anxious because you don't know if you can do it without the therapist. Mad ...

Welcome to the forum. First off, congratulations on going to therapy man! That is a big step. If you don't click with the first therapist there are always more. It has taken me over three years of therapy and over 6 different therapists before I found one who is fantastic for me. They each taught me...

Hey Man,

I hope that the therapy you get helps. I know medication also helped a lot for my self-hatred thoughts. Try CBT or DBT. It can help you change your thoughts so you can combat them when they get really bad. Keep us updated !

Howdy, It sounds like you are suffering quite a bit. I hope that you continue to get help, I know it can be difficult to be vulnerable. Have you ever considered DBT? It is great for helping with things like overeating and self-harm. Your roommates might appear normal, but I am sure they have their o...

I didn't know where to post this. I thought it would be helpful to write out a list of things I dislike about myself whether it is how I act sometimes, how my thoughts sometimes veer to this, or how I feel sometimes. The point of this is to not feel bad but to realize what I wish to change about mys...

Thank you for sharing. I don't think Paul will judge you, but if he does he does. Just know that I haven't. I think it was brave of you to recognize that you need help and to go back. I wish I would have had the courage to examine myself when I was 19. Instead it tooks many years and lots and lots o...

Goodluck Dave! I just joined, but I wish you well.