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

Albert King (Born Under a Bad Sign)

Eminem (Without Me)

New Pornographers (Whiteout Conditions)

Derek & the Domino's (Layla, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad)

Many thanks Rivergirl! Kinda like when you're with kids, any distraction to keep the screams at bay

Yellow Card (Ocean Avenue)

Hey guys, I've recently joined an online sober group called talking sober. So far a great group of folks like us, struggling and expressing ourselves. This game was a big help and distraction from my thoughts and so I wanted to post it here too. Come up a band name, and song that band does if you fe...

Rogitgarg4411, I'm pretty sure we're all, or most of us are here because we have some sort of mental disorder, including yourself. Otherwise we wouldn't have looked for a place where we can discus such topics amongst eachother. Don't be sorry for saying what you said, it may just be more useful to t...

Thanks everyone! I'm really glad to have a place where I can share my stories and not feel isolated and alone. Six days into this new year and I've had 3 good hours, spent wth my son after 253 days away from him. His mom kept telling me I would be a stranger to him that whole time. As soon as he saw...

Oak, My overall plan is to become the father figure to my son that I didn't have. I had a father but he wasn't exactly father of the year any of the 22 years he was around. I took some traits of his I didn't realize until after my hospitalization and this time away from my little man. I would love t...

Oak, Thanks for the reply! The best answers I can give would be that the best outcome for a relationship with my son would be him seeing me as not the frightening guy I was when I had to leave. I was so heavily medicated and in a bad place mentally that I truly felt I had to leave for both of their ...