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

GUYS I DID IT

So there's this email I need to finish writing and send. It's kind of a stressful email, but not as stressful as I'm making it. In order to get to the point of being able to open up my laptop, I first had to do this: 1. Smoke a cigarette. 2. Lie in bed with my head in my hands for 20 minutes because...

So here's a text I sent to a friend of mine who also has Bipolar just this morning: "Fun crazy person story: like I told you, anytime I'm alone and remember something I should have done but haven't or just something that's stressing me out, there's a good chance I'll involuntarily mutter/say/ye...

Hi, I'm Kori, I have Bipolar II, ADD, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Also, I love you. I wrote you a letter to prove it. Actually, I wrote it twice. The first time I spilled ink on the last paragraph just as I was finishing it, and then spent a good half hour hating myself for it. But then I rewr...

A defining part of my childhood was watching my mom struggle with depression and an eating disorder while never modeling any coping skills, acknowledging what was happening, or even using the words "depression" or "eating disorder." In a recent letter to me she used the phrase, &...

A defining part of my childhood was watching my mom struggle with depression and an eating disorder while never modeling any coping skills, acknowledging what was happening, or even using the words "depression" or "eating disorder." In a recent letter to me she used the phrase, &...

Hey sadpants. I've been feeling really fucking depressed lately, and I needed something to do to get out of my head today, so I made a video like the one Paul uploaded recently of sexual trauma survivor survey responses, except I used the depression ones. I put it on Youtube just so it exists somewh...

So I actually registered an account on this forum just to reply to this post, then noticed how old it is, then decided I don't really care. Anyway, I just wanted to say that when I try to explain my more intense bouts of hating myself to others, the way I put it is, "it's like the voice in the ...