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

Ohhhhkay. I posted that in the last ten minutes or so of my work day and had to hurry it. Here's more of the full story. I've been physically shaking and contorting my body since January. Hence my screen name here. I have been diagnosed with conversion disorder. My nerves and my physical responses t...

This is basically a panic post. I had my second EMDR session and body sensations, a bad taste in my mouth, and brief images came up. This is stuff i never knew was there. Anyone else here recover memories they had no awareness of? Ive been power googling but I'd really like to talk to somebody. I'm ...

Holy everlasting fuck do I relate to this. I just had a session with my therapist where I spent the last fifteen minutes asking her if I'm crazy. If this is a real thing that happens to actual people. Can a person really reach middle-age and start to discover CSA is part of their history? Because I ...

Yeah, the CD has kept me up on certain nights. I've been having a hard time being able to settle down at night because of the movements. I don't have a regular meditation practice but I use the techniques a lot with my counselor or alone. It doesn't help for reducing the CD symptoms. It actually mak...

Hello. I just joined and was looking at all the subthreads of mental illnesses and didn't see one for my biggest, current issue. I've been diagnosed with Conversion Disorder which is one of the Somatic Symptom Disorders in the DSM-5. Some other disorders that are similar are Functional Neurological ...

So when you're mental health symptoms keep you up at night, that seems like the perfect time to finally visit that forum you've been meaning to visit! I probably should've been read other intros to get a feel for what people share huh? I will say my "issues" we're more than 80 characters s...