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

After feeling like crap for a long time, getting taken advantage of, and constantly losing. Of trying and failing, and still trying again- I finally won. I stood up for myself. I came back from a horribly stressful situation, and made it my B. I still didn't get everything owed me, but since we're b...

It's happened again. I keep getting in these situations. It happens so often. It's definitely a fear, am I making this happen because I fear it?? I fear not being able to keep it together, and I can never keep it together!! I have ruined another opportunity, even if I was being taken advantage of. I...

It gets worse. Like usual. I moved out of there, and found a new roommate. It was a little 2 bedroom house. Kind of screwed up, but it was just temporary. I put in the application with the landlord who lives in the same property, in the front house. 3 days later I call them because it was raining an...

Ok so, background- middle class upbringing in an abusive household. Emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and neglect. I was diagnosed with major depression at age 7, went untreated for over 25 years, until I finally had a break down a year and a half ago and was put in the hospital for really bad a...

I struggle with this so much! I was shamed for showing emotions when I was a child by my emotionally absent/distant mother, and it still impacts me. Add on society's issue with emotion, love of making fun of people, trying to make everyone into unfeeling robots, and it causes a turmoil mix of emotio...

InMyMind, Totally understand, I usually do the same. Just let it roll off and keep going, especially in a short class like this one, but this guy just got to me. I can't stand hypocrites and bullies. In this situation I really had nothing to lose because without the points from the final, I failed. ...

Thank you for your reply, Fargin. I often find it easier to stand up for other people rather than myself, but either way it takes so much energy to deal with such a negative situation. I'm just not sure I have that kind of energy in me right now. I half feel I should fight it for myself, and half wa...

Just to add a little more background, there is of course, the history of abuse; including an emotionally distant yet hypercritical mother, a sexually abusive father who was arrested when I was 5, the physically abusive step father and his mean kids (4 kids total, 2 each parent, I was the youngest), ...

I can empathize. I've been trying to get meds again for so long. I've been turned away from a ton of ERs, urgent cares, doctor's offices, even a couple mental health trauma places. I had an appointment a couple months back with a place that told me they did just med support when I called, but once I...

Hi guys, I've posted before, but it's been a long time, so I thought I'd go ahead and post here, reintroduce myself and my current problem. I'm 33, and returning to school after a decade or so away. I was diagnosed with depression at 7, and have never had consistent treatment. I had a break down abo...