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

The trip was... Disappointing. I was lonely and anxious and tired and ended up staying 2 nights in hotels and coming home 3 days early. I saw some nature and I had some good times but overall it was really disappointing and I need a little more time to process how I feel about it and let the let-dow...

Here's an update: My sister and I have actually spent some quality time together lately. Our dad took us both to the fair and we went on a ride together and held an alligator and just hung out. We went on a drive yesterday and she told me she signed up for college classes for the fall. It seems like...

I don't really know how to support her. She's not really like me, or she's exactly like me, in that she's angry and stubborn and guarded and seems to have a hard time letting people in. (Now that I think of it, she's exactly like me.) But I don't know any way to get through that. Plus, in real life,...

(Tw: suicide) Terrible self-absorbed rant of the day coming up here. Three nights ago, my little sister tried to kill herself. I won't share too much info as it's not really my story to tell, but she has a lot of MH issues herself and is struggling pretty hard at the moment. Medically she's fine, an...

Thanks guys <3 I actually moved out for the first time when I was 18, the fall after graduating high school... To a town that was 8 hours away by ferry, on an island. I'm 22 now, and was hospitalized / living with my parents basically between 20 and 22. So it feels both brave and not necessarily not...

(tw: some suicide stuff) I used to keep a diary thread in another mental health forum -- an ED recovery one, back in my eating disordered days -- and since it was really helpful to me when I was going through a lot of struggling and transitional life stuff, I figured I'd pick up the practice here. (...

This is one of my favorite episodes of the show.

Anyone else have trouble with idea that they will be bipolar... like... forever? Maybe I struggle with this so much because I was diagnosed first with a personality disorder, which I understood as something that could (and did, in my case) go away with enough therapy. In fact, I was only diagnosed w...

Thank you! I mostly run around my parents' house, which is where I'm currently living. There's a couple nice routes I take -- one through town and one that's a little more out of town.

I have kind of an different problem. I have self-harm scars on my arms and legs, and while almost no one asks about them, I just hate them and have a really hard time feeling pretty or desirable because of them. I worry about people judging me too, though. I understand the feeling of worrying if peo...