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

I would consider moving across the country to have Dr. Watkins as my psychiatrist or as my BFF.

Sorry to hear what you are going through. Social media makes me more depressed instead of less, so I stay away from it unless I am feeling more than halfway functional.Otherwise I listen to podcasts and audiobooks instead -- and read if I have the energy. I've been where you are -- depression cost m...

Paul surrounds himself with the most amazing people. How he do it? I can't even find someone whose dog won't shit in front of my house. Matty has such a generous and beautiful soul. He is truly someone to emulate.

Is it too soon to start voting for the top ten episodes of 2015?

I am afraid that my mother and/or father are members of this forum and that they are going to recognize me before I recognize them. I am afraid that my pets will outlive me and none of my friends or relatives will want them, so they will all end up back in a shelter where no one will adopt them beca...

This is the most relentessly "awfulsome" episode of MIHH ever. I am horrified at myself for laughing while Jeanie is crying and Paul is talking about being suicidal. Now I hate myself even more.

I really enjoyed this episode and wish that I had been able to watch it. The live episodes are a nice break -- I like the "lightness" of them, and especially getting to hear what Paul was like in his previous incarnation (which I hadn't known about before MIHH). The suggestion about making...

These are such good ideas. I am in a financial hole too -- not because of credit, but because I have underpaid income taxes (I could either pay the taxes or the mortgage but not both). Being depressed on top of that doesn't help when it comes to paying bills, so I have a bill-paying service. I turn ...

"Dammit this pen isn't working!... I spent $700 on this pen..." Makes me laugh every time.

Sorry to hear that you are having a hard time. I know what it is like to move to a new place that I didn't especially want to go to for the sake of a job. (I was single though, so the move affected only my cats and me.) Turned out to be a disaster -- maybe if I had been in a less backwards place wit...