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

The part about the firearm really bothered me and I feel like I have to say something. This is going to come across as accusatory because it is. It is absolutely unacceptable that a person would have a firearm in a house with people who don't know how to safely handle it. At a bare minimum Erin shou...

Background info: I have depression and anxiety issues. I was born in Slovakia, moved to Vancouver as a child, grew up in Vancouver but moved back to Slovakia about a year ago because my parents basically couldn’t find a job/pay the bills and thought they’d fair better in Slovakia. I didn’t want to g...

Ya, I feel similarly. I've been trying different medications for a couple months now and every time the psychiatrist asks me how I feel I say: pretty much the same. The drugs have basically stopped me having major depressive episodes but like you mention my baseline mood is still pretty low even wit...

I have very brief experience with Citalopram and Sertraline. The first antidepressents I've ever taken were Citalopram and Alprazolam. I was prescribed one 20mg tablet in the morning along with a some alprazolam as well. I say this because my experience was probably of the combination rather than ju...

Hello all. My name is Richard, but you can call me Snowball if you'd like as well. It's an avatar I've used in another forum, so I felt like I might as well continue using it. Snowball is, of course, a pig (an allegory of Trotsky) from Orwell's Animal Farm, which is one of my favorite books. I don't...