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

Writing helps me deal with my feelings. During this moment I wrote about, I was stuck in the car with my boyfriend (now my ex) who was verbally and emotionally abusive (at least during that car ride, he was also physically abusive at other times). He had gotten a ticket when we went to the beach whi...

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Another one of these essay/journaling things... trying to figure out what I can change and what I can't. --I am powerless over the fact that I saw MANY red flags in the beginning and I ignored my instincts.-- How has it affected your life? The fact that I stayed in an abusive relationship for so lon...

I thought I would share an essay my sponsor gave me as a homework assignment: I am powerless over what he, his friends and his family think of me. How has it affected my life? In the beginning of our friendship, even before we were dating, he told me that if I didn't do what he wanted (and I'm sure ...

I'm working the 12 steps over this particular issue, the first one being that I admitted I was powerless over (in this instance a person, mainly my ex) and that my life had become unmanageable because of this. It's hard admitting a lot of these things because I've tried to control them in the past--...

I was in a very tense relationship with someone a while back, and I begged them to get treatment for their bipolar. He was pretty abusive with me when he got into his depressive states because his depression often came out as anger. They argued with me the whole time about it, but eventually took a ...

I wrote everyone notes about why I loved them so much, basically good bye letters. I don't know if I wanted to kill myself, but I just needed to very loudly say HELP! Then I deleted everyone off my Facebook (which, without a phone of my own is my own way of keeping in contact with people these days)...

My roommate has left for the week, leaving me all alone at our apartment. One of her friends (mutual friends I guess) is alone this week as well because his wife went on vacation. He wanted to hang out since we're both bored at home by ourselves all week. Though, we've never hung out by ourselves be...

Not sure if anyone wants to read this but it's something I've been working on this year. This chapter gets very heavily into the abuse, the codependency, the cutting, hospitalization, depression and fear that I experienced two years ago. It's a week in my life that changed so much for me. Too much s...

Thank you. It's an every day struggle. I feel like I may have a bit of a love addiction because of my inability to let go of people who treat me like garbage. I still make their opinions count so much more to me than they should. One of my friends who actually stood by me (and for me even in the beg...