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

First off, to be clear, I have never taken Effexor and know nothing about it specifically. However, maybe the Effexor has a stimulating effect on your overall nervous system, and without it you would have just felt upset, but with it you were sort of "charged up" and actually started cryin...

My father is in his early 60s, he's been on some amount of lithium since his mid 20s, almost 40 years. He had a genuine manic episode back then, delusions that people in the TV were watching him, that someone was planting spiders in the bath tub. When he was around 30 a doctor tried to either lower ...

So things aren't going all that terribly for me right now, but I feel angry and stressed and don't really have people I can talk to about it. I found this podcast awhile ago, but I live with my parents and just felt weird listening to it with the chance that they might hear it, unless it was at nigh...