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

So glad to hear those helped! Remember to take care of yourself as you continue to move forward - you deserve it!

After that I started having nightmares almost every night sometimes several a night and I also started getting triggered all the time and I had panic attacks and I'd start to feel, hear, smell, taste, sometimes see but it was mostly darkness I saw, and I didn't understand what was happening. I'd sha...

That's when the nightmares (which I've always had) really started to get disturbing and I started hurting myself. I felt wrong, that's really the best way I can put it. Something was wrong with me but I didn't know what. I'd have moments every now and then of dissociation and panic randomly and I th...

I feel like a piece of shit for posting so often these past few days (especially since I'm new - didn't want to drop my craziness on people who are actually suffering for real reasons) it just is nice being able to say (in a sense) these things and doubts that I still don't understand without having...

Hi, I'm new too. I often have trouble sleeping before my therapy sessions too. One thing I've done that has helped every now and then (I won't lie it doesn't always work) is deep breathing that I learned when taking voice lessons. Place one hand on your stomach and the other on your chest. Breathe d...

I've always had nightmares for as long as I can remember and unfortunately that hasn't changed. Anyway I had this dream several years ago but it's always stuck with me (along with more of my more frightening or disturbing nightmares). I don't remember the beginning of it all too much because it was ...

A poem I wrote a few years ago to get some of the emotion out somehow...you don't have to like it, it's just one that still resonates with me The Devil Lies With Me The devil lies with me, Within my thoughts, within my mind. I see him, The veil over my eyes Blinding me with shadows, Living in horrid...