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

Beautiful work!

Just had a craving for a frosted pop tart!... haven’t had one in over a decade probably!!!

Wow, Kirito309, your post is beautiful. I’m sorry you have to hang out with all those jerk-offs. I have my own similar posse waiting to trap me any day now, I’m sure... the last few days they haven’t had a grip on me though. Shame sits at the table deflated, bags under his eyes, downcast, shaking hi...

Hi AngerKA, I tried the link and it just opened a blank skype chat... I guess it’s not being used?

Thanks Oak. Turns out the Norovirus didn't cap it off!... I got parotitis (check out google images) about a week after I got over the Noroviurs!!! Unbelievable! Anyway, I appreciate that you read my negativity barf. And that's a good way to put it, that "there is a lot of hurt orbiting my famil...

It's been the coldest, longest, wettest winter we’ve had here in the Bay Area since I was a kid. On top of that, we’re in this shitty dilapidated joke of a house that’s dirty, uncleanable, leaking, moldy, dusty and grimy in a neighborhood that’s sad, depressing, noisy, polluted, filthy, angry, bitte...

Alan Cumming - actor, author of his memoir: Not My Father's Son, physical and emotional abuse survivor

Brene Brown (I think she's been suggested already)

Sarah Silverman

W. Kamau Bell - sociopolitical comedian, community activist

Karl Ove Knausgaard - Norwegian author/writer: My Struggle

Hi HowDidIGetHere, Sorry to hear you're in so much pain. I can definitely relate to feeling overwhelmed by all of our different mental illnesses and personality disorders. Also, anger/rage and emotional abuse is a big part of my story as well and fucking difficult to deal with (BTW writing that just...

Fuck Beany Boo.. I'm sorry you've been subjected to all of those horrible things, and all as in innocent child. You undoubtedly deserved much better. Why does life have to be so fucked up!!!??? Sounds like you're doing the right things for yourself/moving in the right direction by reaching out on th...

Hi LittleRainCloud! Thanks for giving us a snippet of your story. I feel your pain... it's fucking confusing as shit to come out of a fucked up family into the "real world." I have a tremendous amount of faith that by the time you're my age (33) you'll be on much more solid ground. I wish ...

Hi Mario and welcome!! I recommend keeping a dream journal and talking to a therapist about your dreams. I've found that my subconscious "plays" dreams for me because there's something going on with me that needs to be processed but that I'm not yet conscious of. Usually it takes laying do...