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

"I've become very depressed coming to terms with not being that talented of an artist, not knowing where I want to go with my career, feeling hopeless about ever being financially independent from my mother, and a million other things I don't have the energy to type . . . People have and will c...

I'm trying to find an apartment in NYC, but I don't have a job so I have to find a place that accepts co-signers. I'm almost 25 years old and I still need my dad to pay my rent. This whole process just really drives home how little I've accomplished with my life so far. But the worst part is the con...

"My brain has developed a pattern, where I'm always looking for a doomsday scenario and while I know moving is for the better, I constantly have to attempt to control my mind telling me, I will fail and will be stuck in an uncertain situation forever." I know exactly what you mean. Even in...

So after a series of personal setbacks that forced me to move back in with my parents (I'm 24), today I just booked a flight back to New York City. Living in NYC has been a dream of mine for a while, but I've booked this flight without a job or even housing lined up, and I'm going to have to sleep o...

Hi all, I'm not really sure where to begin or how much detail to go into, but here it goes. I've had depression since I was about 19 (I'm almost 25 now). Things got really bad around a year and a half ago, where a combination of money problems and my Mom getting terminally ill forced me to leave NYC...