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

My therapist is trying. But I know she's wrong. I know I have no intrinsic value.

I just broke up with my boyfriend of almost 3 years (we took a long break and still talked, but that didn't work out, so now it's definitively over). He's the only person I've ever been in a relationship with and I just turned 28. I really really miss him and don't want to have sex with anyone else ...

I've always been a perfectionist -- my parents don't think they are, but they're both perfectionists in different ways, and although they SAID it was okay to make mistakes, they certainly didn't set that example. Like you, OP, my perfectionism manifested for many years mainly in grades and schoolwor...

I just broke up with my first boyfriend, of 2.5 years, last night. It was mutual, we still love each other, and we're still open to getting back together in the future if we both find ourselves more capable of a relationship (we both have mental health issues, and that plus a little to much physical...

I'm in a similar spot -- first relationship, two and a half years, just ended. It suuuuuucks. Here's to both of us hanging in there <3 *hugs* <3

I also know that no one is going to reply to this, because after my first 2 attempts at conversation here I've been a conversation-killer, but I don't care right now because I'm really fucking selfish and just need somewhere to type out what I'm thinking and feeling and then press a button so someon...

I fucking hate, hate, HATE myself. I have a headache and I'm hungry and I'm not going to eat or take advil, because I deserve this discomfort. I'm so angry.

Ooooh, I like this! My turn!

I didn't include 'anxiety' because that sort of overlays or includes everything.

I'm a "late bloomer" too, emotionally at least. I grew up believing that I was unlovable, and unfuckable, literally. I didn't date or flirt or kiss in high school because that just wasn't something I did and it certainly wasn't something anyone was interested in doing with me. It was just ...

I have no advice, but I too have a driving anxiety -- in fact, I'm 27, have lived in the suburbs of the US where not driving is at best an inconvenience and at worst completely disabling, and have never gotten my driver's license. I'm horrified of making a fatal mistake in the blink of an eye and hu...