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

Funny thing. I was on YouTube only recently watching episodes of "Andy Richter Controls the Universe."

If you can get a message to Andy, please let him know there's still at least one person out here who thinks that was the best show ever.

Thanks, rg. I really appreciate your answer. It does make sense to me.

Just bumping this because I really do need help. I guess no one has an answer or at least not one they'd feel okay sharing.

Sigh. Thanks for trying.

I'm of the addiction related recovery community, so things are a little more established when starting new meetings. Plus, I don't know what works for recovering from incest/sexual abuse in a peer setting. That said, the usual process that I'm aware of is to find a location that will let you use the...

So I'm trying to get stable again after some really crazy years and I don't seen to be able to do it on my own. Sometimes it occurs to me to ask someone I know for help -- even for something small like "do you know anyone who's selling a car?" -- and then I start to think that I'm being sh...

I haven't gotten far enough into examining it to even wonder if I'm making it up yet, but I think I get what you're saying. I do know that my relationship with my mother is at least entangled in an unhealthy way, but that's as far as I'm willing to go so far. But at the same time, I do get little ti...

I can't exactly say from firsthand experience, but from what I can tell from the people I've met in recovery, yes it gets better. For my part, I identify with some of the features of your story. The parental neglect, the use of substances and behaviors to numb out, and the sort of shellshock that ca...

Lately I've been more able to at least shed some tears, but I'm also on medication for bipolar for the first time, so it's hard to tell what's cause and what's effect.

Sad memory. Though I've always been musical, I've written one song in my life. A lullaby for my someday child. I just realized tonight that in addition to not having that someday child, not only have I completely forgotten that lullaby, it was never written down anywhere either. Grieving is a proces...

I don't really want to talk about me. I just came to see how y'all are doing. I was listening to the podcast episode about classical musicians (I think) and all the surveys about childhood sexual abuse started getting to me. The things Paul was reading started to feel like they were hitting closer t...