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

Oh my goodness, Glock Therapy, so very well expressed. It's exactly how I feel!

My goodness, kcg, the crowd chants "It's all your fault" at hockey games? That is so cruel! I'm not really into sports, I had no idea they did that. I would cry in the public bathroom too!! So, I just had to jump in and say that. Other than that, I'm just going to second what AndyLand said...

I just got this book tonight, and it is amazing. If you have depression, this is like a manual describing how to operate it, so that it doesn't operate you. The author's name is Elisha Goldstein. I've just been reading it for the last two hours. It's written in a very accessible, comforting, underst...

Hi QB, I'm sorry you're still feeling pain. I'm glad to see you're still engaging in self care and you have some plans for both career and your personal life! Good for you! Feeling that him being happy hurts you is something of a co-dependent thought. Codependents like me have trouble discerning whe...

The show gives me hope, especially the episodes like this about anxiety and depression. Just listening to someone talk about how they experience their anxieties and their depression is comforting, even if they have more financial and social resources than I do. And Paul stops them and asks them just...

Hi Rain, welcome to the forums. I know, I was alone valentine's day as well. Actually, I think a lot of married couples treat valentine's day kind of like the same way a hardcore partier would treat new years eve. Kinda like "amateur night." And I'm sure there are many who feel obligated t...

Oh dear. I just realized that when I said this: I don't have the right to feel that I'm a good person, unless others feel that I'm a good person. ...that this is a hugely co-dependent statement. I just got Facing Codependence by Pia Mellody, and I've been reading it all weekend and it is super enlig...

Also Facing Codependence by Pia Mellody. Very informative about me, especially me, and some people in my life.

Wow, Tintaglia, it sounds like your folks' parenting philosophy was "full speed ahead in all directions!" With a smattering of desperately-grasping-at-straws. You actually just reminded me of another one of those annoying 70s platitudes: "You can be anything you want to be when you gr...

I wonder if maybe your dad getting mad at you like that over time maybe caused you to have a negative association with talking about emotional things, so that no matter who you're talking about emotions with, it triggers anxiety and that would why you would get anxious in the therapist's office. If ...