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

I guess you're right. I have wanted to remove them from my life for a long time but the thought brings me extreme guilt. I feel like it would make my mum very sad if I did so and this upsets me. I don't like to make anyone feel sad. I have tried with the boundaries my entire life. I have a lot of me...

I recently moved out of home and in the past few weeks I have had a ton of childhood memories that I had completely forgotten about and suppressed which involve mainly my parents and the fucked up way in which they dealt with my emotions. One of the most disturbing ones that I can't seem to overcome...

I know it's part of my illness but I constantly feel like I am not understood, and have this unquenchable thirst for being understood. It makes me extremely uncomfortable when I feel like what I have said has come across wrongly. I end up trying to continuously dig deeper into what I have said to ex...