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

pari.sehgal: Wow, this post is 9 years old? I don't even remember writing this, but it is great to have a little insight into where I was at back then. In regards to your comment - I'm not sure if this is a copy/paste text you are just placing anywhere you find the word "gaslighting," as I...

I know this post is almost a year old, but I was curious how things have gone for you since. Are you still part of that support group?

Hello Manuel! I have been feeling the same frustration for the past few years, and I've become strongly avoidant of social situations due to multiple experiences where I tried to put myself out there (in small and large ways) only to be hurt. I'm terrified of becoming a hermit, but I've been burned ...

Thanks guys

I am not a man but since it's a virtual hug anyway I am sending you my biggest, strongest, safest, most paternal and protective hug ever.

I'll be very careful not to crush any bones though.

Anyone else, somewhere between Robin Williams, Ferguson, and other tragedies large and small, find themselves completely paralyzed with depression and consumed by the internet?

I'm not sure if I want a hug or a really heavy weighted blanket to smother myself in.

IrrationalPersist: I have a few women in my life that have been in similar relationships to the one with your ex, and I have seen how hard it is to accept outside advice and separate yourself from the toxic person and I am heartened by your strength, that you were able to hear your counselor and wal...

Oak: I appreciate your two cents and didn't think it was rambly at all :-) the only problem is that while I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent person, I'm not always the quickest. It's often hard for me to catch when someone is manipulating me while they are doing it, haha. Actually, it remi...

In the past couple of years I've come to realize that my dad very robustly fills the profile of someone with NPD. This discovery has helped me to better understand him and his random-seeming moods and actions. More specifically, I'm glad to have come across the term " gaslighting ." Nothin...

I've joined several virtual and physical (?) communities several times in the past and I find that it never works out, no matter how well-meaning the community. That being said, I tend to overshare, but I'm gonna try to stay more in the background here. Keyword: try. I felt I should at least start w...