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

A hunk who cries, wants his dads love and needs to create a safe space in his life to deal with anxiety?

Talk about my ideal trauma bonding mate!

There were alot of reactions, replies and likes on the posts for this episode on facebook where there is generally a few interactions per post.
Maybe it's just this guy's fanbase but I assumed it was from listeners who reacted positively to the guest himself.

An intense, meaningful, relatable topic but it took me a long time to warm up to this guest. I suspect, judging by all the activity on the social media for this ep, that I'm in the minority here but it took me a LOOONG time to warm up to this guest. It felt more like he was doing bits or glossing ov...

An Update I suppose I felt kinda manic and in distress writing the post above but it was still very honest. So I went forward with that honesty and told my NEW BeterHelp therapist (offer code: MENTAL) what was going on. Usually in these situations I would dance around the subject, gloss over details...

Oh MAN did this episode hit way too close to home. Before getting into CoDA I tried going to a sex and love addiction meeting and was completely turned off. Similarly to Mica's experience I couldn't relate AT ALL to what anyone was saying in the room. Not to break anonymity, every single person in m...

Thanks
Paul was pretty amazing on Josh Peck's podcast as well

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I'm pretty sure i was inspired to make this account by another guest speaking about covert incest and here I am again. When listening to Paul and Tony remember their parents saying "It's nothing I haven't seen before" as they were inappropriately looking at their private parts, I had a rea...

I feel like this is the most candid and refreshing Kevin Allison has been. I've been listening to his podcast for years and dug deep into the archives and, as he says on this episode, he became like a character. He would keep telling the same stories or same kinds of stories that, while truthful, ne...

I feel a shame-filled surge of excitement whenever there's a male guest, especially one who is going to talk about their history/dealing with sexual abuse. I feel bad being excited over someone's pain and when I finally found the courage to admit this to a friend he said i shouldn't. He said it was ...

Paul thanks, that means a lot. I have only really felt a comparable rage with this acquaintance (a woman living with friends of mine) gets touchy with me. I don't like clingy women in general but this one actively has a crush on me and so everything she does to express that - after I have told her I...