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

One of the best episodes in a long time.

Paul, on the topic of empathy and the limits of modern psychiatry/psychology (two of the points in my comment), there is an excellent podcast where Sam Harris (a cognitive neuroscientist) discusses empathy with Paul Bloom (professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University). It briefly...

Paul, your podcasts have been a very big part of my very small life for the last couple of years. You can certainly read my comment on the air. Jimmy is a pseudonym anyway so you can use that name. Take care.

I have had BPD for 30 years and I'm still amazed at the complex nature of this illness. While Sarah's mother had BPD, the manifestation of the illness is so much different in her than in me that it almost seems like another illness entirely. So much of my BPD is about depression and not about the ma...

"female-bodied people" ??????? What the heck is a female bodied person? Are we going to be so politically correct now that we have come to this level of specificity in our language? Look, I try really, really hard to be kind and understanding to people, but this level of language control i...

My God that was a powerful episode. Lauren was incredibly honest and forthcoming.

I love you Paul and I don't want to discount anyone's pain, but miscarriages? Really Paul? Both my mother and ex-wife had miscarriages and they were both very painful experiences, but next to the issues discussed in the rest of the podcasts, miscarriages are a joke. Some of us listeners are hanging ...

Pa's Suede is bang on about BPD. When you read how horrible you are just for having BPD, society is basically telling you that the world would be much better without you. But then when you attempt to kill yourself, there are doctors, nurses and loved ones telling you to be strong and fight on. The m...

I really like your username. Sorry, that's all I got.

I agree with a number of you about the huge advantages Clint had in his quest for health, however, I couldn't help notice that he wasn't a particularly bright or engaging interview and I felt sorry for Paul on a number of occasions. I can't recall an interview where I cringed as much over a guest's ...