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

There are Men's Divisions EVERYWHERE. They just tend to be very quiet. It's the nature of the confidential, grass-roots, NO-profit beast. They can be found. They exist to "embrace all men". They've helped me immeasurably. I owe everything to them. As for the death of a convicted man. It's ...

We both have to accept the anxiety for what it is with no value judgement. It took me a long time. For many years after I quit wearing a gun for a living I suppressed my drive to train and drill with my guns. I thought it was stupid to continue for no real reason. Finally, I just accepted that was a...

I am grateful to have been on the podcast. There is so much I wish I could have said. I'd be happy to continue the conversation with you fine people. I'll answer any questions that you feel weren't addressed.
If you're hurting, you're not alone.

I keep remembering things I should have said. My partner, who was away on a family vacation when the shooting happened felt tremendously guilty when he returned and found that I'd been shot. I told him that I preferred it this way. I was young and he was much older. He had a family and I was single....

Hi, I'm Dan and I have PTSD. I'm a Gulf War veteran, but I had to come home to find the violence to have an issue. It was 19 years ago, but it seems like yesterday. I'll tell you that IT GETS BETTER. Don't do it alone. You won't be able to do it that way. You can manage it with time and effort. It a...