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

Yes, now they do, because they don't have any choice. The medical environment has changed so drastically in the last 2 decades that they would price themselves out of the market if they didn't have a sliding scale. But there was a time in the 90's and 2000's when therapists felt that they deserved a...

Thank you for your post, inmymind. That is a GREAT suggestion. I don't think it is negative to observe that so many self-help gurus' priority is over the top self promotion. Glaring self-promotion has become the new normal in the self-help guru and psychotherapy community. I remember an interaction ...

Forgive me, but I just don't understand a trend that I see so often among depressed and damaged people: they spend a lot of time "honoring" and "respecting" other people's dignity, space and roles in society, but seem to have no clue as to how to honor and respect themselves -- l...

Hmmmm. Here are mine: Will never make enough money to save for retirement and buy a house with a yard so I can have a dog and take a vacations. People don't like me. I will never rise professionally I'm ugly. I will never feel like I have a family. I'm scared to have a pet. I'm fat. I'm angry and ol...

Are you depressed? Chronically? Are you on meds?

I have been bothered about this for a long time: I am really, really tired of seeing a majority of very young, very pretty, and very white Hollywood types as the subjects of the podcasts. There has been some diversification, including listeners and therapists, but the great majority are actresses, m...