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

Hi Diana,

I don't live anywhere near you, but I hope you find a sense of friendship and community by participating here

I'm ready whenever you are. No pressure. I admire you for knowing and respecting your own limits, and look forward to whatever you are willing to share.

Well, AndyLand, at least we are not invisible to each other. That's a crumb of hope for me, and it's an even bigger crumb if it does you some good, too. Yep: I'm caretaker-y and nurture-y to a fault, putting other peoples' needs before my own so consistently that I have accidentally trained them not...

Greetings and salutations. You had me at "(Hi Brian)", BTW. Yeah, I'm a mess, too. If you read through some of my other posts, including my intro here not too long ago, you'll probably see that I'm not just whistling Dixie with that. Actually, I think EVERYONE is a mess, one way or another...

Greetings & salutations. Hope you find some useful support here. For me the anonymity makes it easy to be honest, and I find that the process of typing things out to post here makes it easier to think clearly later when I'm trying to describe the same thing to my therapist or loved ones or even ...

The podcasts are like meds to me, too :) without any nasty side effects, and no need for a prescription! Also: chocolate, pasta, dogs, sleep, knitting and quilting. Some of those have side effects, though .... Anyhow, I'm new in the forums after a lot of listening and lurking, so we can be ummmm tog...

Here we are, on the Island of Misfit Toys

Renee, It's very courageous to have shared this here, and I applaud your bravery as you unpack some very difficult feelings. It's PERFECT for the introduction section, in my opinion! This is a place where we don't have to suppress the feelings and thoughts that we are used to suppressing. The anonym...

Brooke, thanks for checking in and giving such sincere attention to my tornado of fear. It sounds like you do actually get what I'm talking about. Unfortunately, that's because you experience similar self-sabotaging thought patterns, which I happen to know are devastating... in a way, it's depressin...

Hey, AndyLand. Thanks for your smoke signal. I'm here because I'm super-frustrated with feeling misunderstood and invisible... so your reply is of great value to me. I can point to it and tell my head, "Look, here's some evidence that somebody out there in the world actually DOES hear you!"...