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

There has been a story Three decades old That has yet to reach its glory And forever be labeled as bold. Truth has this allegory bruised Red, black, and blue For the heroine has been abused And love for her a path to elude. Vanishing within and without This protrayer of a life Has seeds drenched in ...

After listening to this past Friday's episode, some things make sense. I was born out of an emergency c-section and the doctor couldn't see me so he reached in my mother blindly. He only found me when I clamped my mouth on his thumb because it reached all the way to the back of my throat. I was put ...

I had a hard time getting to sleep. I started thinking about why I have forgive and strength tatted on my wrists. They both serve a dual purpose: forgive is for myself for all the negative things I've done to myself and also as a reminder to forgive those who have harmed me. Strength reminds me to b...

Well she finally admitted that she failed as a parent in terms of comforting skills, but guess how she came to that conclusion? Oh just by the lack of me being comforting to her in Her time of need when she was having a depressive episode and crying like a child. Thank for playing today's show. Sta...

Thanks Brownblob for your support. I didn't seem to have a choice with becoming a caregiver. Sure, I could have distanced myself by getting her a nurse, but then I would have been completely without a family. I was her surrogate spouse as a teenager so maybe that was a harbinger of what has come to ...

Thank you Oak. I re-read my passage and the ocd part of me couldn't get passes the errors I made so I'm glad and thanfull you saw the errors for the words they were meant to be. I am slowly trying to enjoy the little things like I used to before she got sick. My depression comes and goes and right n...

This past year has been one extreme carnival ride I want to get off of. It's not one of those peaceful rides that adults get on to relax from the ids; no this ride is the one where you get tricked into riding it and have no control over the seed or duration of the ride. My year with my already narci...

I was stretching my wrists while working and I felt a pull in my wrists which triggered a memory from my adolescence. I stretched it too much as a teenager one day and my wrist was locked. I was fearful because I couldn't get it unlocked and the only parent concerned and trying to curb my fear was m...

There's something to be said when you feel several different emotions all in the course of one day. From dreading to get your day started to laughing at the comedic podcast and then to feeling like the weight of the world rests on your shoulders and feeling like you're nobody's type because the guy ...

Dear Lost, my heart breaks for the trauma you experienced. Some triggers like you expressed are hard to avoid. I understand what being alone when everyone is asleep feels like and it can be terrifying. I am glad you wrote your experience down. Every day that progresses grants you more strength to ma...