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

I'm having a bad day. It's worse than the bad day I had yesterday and the one before that. These stretches are getting longer together. I've gone back to therapy and usually the good days string together, but not this time. I've got an undercurrent of bitterness and anger. I don't know how to let th...

I have resorted to relying on technology to help me out. I use a fitbit and the calorie counting trackers that accompany it and I make it a point to track everything I eat (the good, bad, and the ugly). I've also used CalorieCount.about.com before that. It's hard to do at first. Mostly because of th...

You know, BooksAreNifty...first off, books ARE nifty! Secondly, that is great advice to take it one little step at a time. I've been having this tendency of thinking of the whole big picture. I'll start to think about writing, then I'll worry about performing, then I'll worry about the crowds, then ...

Hey Manuel, thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to contributing. Hopefully I can make it stick and not just burn myself out in one energetic spurt. pizza_dreamer...can I just call you pizza? I'm gonna call you pizza, if that's alright. If not, let me know. pizza, you know the funny thing is ...

Hello everyone. I don’t know really where to start, so I’ll aim for somewhere off-center and just spread out from there. I’ll apologize in advance if this introduction doesn’t have any real structure. Just writing this down right now is a feat in itself. It’s very hard for me to get my feelings out ...