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

The person I used to be would never wanna know the person I've become..... I am painfully aware of what i am, who i am......it seems people spend an exorbanant amount of time trying to figure this out, but not i, no, i got that one fuckin pegged... and this is something i realize i should be thankfu...

my advice is: do something fucking crazy. make a bad descision (not to terrible,mind you, get drunk on a weekday or something) than you will get a taste of personal failure, you'll see u can handle it fine, and later down the road if you really fuck up (and u will, everyone does) it wont be so forei...

the point im trying to make here is that some things like incest rape molestation, abuse cannot be reasoned with. mental illness, pain expressing itself by lashing out, drug addiction, these are things that require compassion and compent medical care, and not for you to just write them off.....in my...

human connection is the meaning of life. here's another big secret: everybody's family is choc full of just straight up peices of shit, and spending time making a mental checklist of everyone's short comings is a complete waste of time. When I was 4 years old, my mother married a bad man. he did thi...

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btw u cant tell but i'm a pessimist

someone took something from you and it still scares you at night. its not your fault. you feel yourself less than and weak because you feel you've let it take to much of your life from you. fuck that. your process is your process...this thing that stained you has taken what it's gonna take. that was...

you are not alone. I think you might have some intresting things to say but maybe yer shy or embarrased....I do not pass judgement....i have enough flaws for the both of us so dont fret

I am like you. I am 29 i suffer from severe anxiety and depression. my father was abusive and my mother abandoned me emotionally as achild and then all ogether at 14. Personally i think people who dont have some form of anxiety or either babies or fools. Most ppl with depression possess a higher int...

Masturbation is awesome. I cant masturbate, horrible body issues.....if you think you are masturbating too often, you probobally are. Married women are totally hott in some people's minds bc of the whole virgin/slut thing. I am married, been that way for 10 years. I get hit on constantly, sometimes ...