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

manual_moe: no worries.,,this is my last post. As for triggering people, dealing with triggers is the individuals responsibility; not mine. In an effort to not put anyone in a difficult place...I won't post anymore. fargin: If you were an alcoholic, would you ask all the owners of a liquor store to ...

[TRIGGER-WARNING: SUICIDE] Failbot: All I can say to you is this...I realize reaching out for help is a scary thing so I suspect you will get help when the thought of not getting help is a scarier thought. I'm not one to say "things will get better", because I simply don't know that. Some...

I am much where you are now. I'm not goin to tell you to get help. I'm quite sure manuel_moe will send you a bunch of links to suicide hotlines. When he did that to me, I felt like I was being patted on the head and being told "there, there". The truth is you may get better, you may not. D...

Thank you for the feedback. I'm actually having an okay day. I am waiting to see if I am coming into a large sum of money. If so, when I have that money in my bank account, I am killing myself. I have thought about it a lot over the last two years and have finally made my decision. It won't be today...

Thanks for the feedback, but I'm done. I've been through this shit for too long. I have been debating, for a year, as to what to do and have made my decision. I should have saved myself the last year; oh well right.

All the best to those in forum land.

The latest catch phrase "mental illness is a chemical imbalance that requires medication and is just like a diabetic needing insulin", or words to that effect. Bullshit! If that were true, then why isn't my life as it should be after I take medication? When a diabetic takes insulin, their ...

Jimmy: Are there answers, in particular, that made you cringe? I think one thing that bothered me is that many things he did (beating people up, being abusive, being selfish, being the tough guy) had a label of mental illness slapped on it, and somehow made it excusable. The other thing that bothere...

I experience terrible anxiety when in public. Panic is quite often triggered by something; maybe try and figure out what's triggering it. So for what it's worth, here are my suggestions to you, particularly when you are getting on a bus or are in public. Start breaking your fears down (talking to yo...

I'm not sure if this topic has been discussed, but AvPD is part of who I am. I was just wondering if anyone else has experience with this, how you cope, and what treatment plans worked and/or are working for you. To put it in a nutshell, I spend my life walking around in a constant state of anxiety ...

IdentityPoltergeist: I couldn't agree with you more. I don't know if it helps me to listen to the famous people telling their story; I tend to judge although I try not to. People, without mental illness, tend to accept the stories from the famous, but if it was me, or some regular person, that same ...