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

Im sorry you are going through this, i would suggest you try to stop the drinking. i did AA meetings to stop i also watch a lot of tv after work i fell barely alive all the time. its getting so bad i am trying to go find things to do that make me feel better. watching tv is almost like doing drugs i...

ive been too depressed to even post on here lately. i was in therapy and it was helping a little ,but i got a new job and i cant see her anymore because of my work hours. i stopped going to a a meetings,but have been been feeling almost suicidal so i started going back,and it helps a little. all i d...

I have stage 4 arthritis in both of my feet and a little in my hands..its is VERY painful at times..hurts to walk,every stepi take hurts. I take suboxone because the other painkillers(real opiates like vicodin,morphine,etc,,sub is a synthetic opiate)make me feel horrible . so it does take the edge o...

yup thanks...therapy i will try out..i need to do something...i am failing in some of my classes in school,it affects my relationships,fuck it feels out of control.really out of control.i feel so lost.im so fucking sick and tired of feeling fear,terror and shame 24 fucking 7 my brain just shovels sh...

hey fargin no,man i think its GREAT that you post here telling us how it got better for you,trust me that's the stuff i wanna hear,at least. i need to have hope,i need to KNOW that its going to get better because that's what motivates me to get up and go to yoga class,try out something new ive never...

hey mr glock yeah i guess you missed the part about the therapy i did,and how i am seeking out more. i also need to meditate more..i never seem to do it with any regularity and the most important thing i think is..and i did not say this yet... i need to find someway of having a job that will make me...

I am a 44 year old man,currently drowning in depression and anxiety.I was diagnosed as Schizo/Affective Manic depressive when i was 19.Doctors i have seen i recent years do not think that is an accurate diagnosis.I have not been officially diagnosed a new term.I am taking wellbutrin and prozac..i ha...