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

Thanks, y'all. I actually feel like I have this under control emotionally, for once. The only part I honestly miss is seeing my mom, but if she doesn't want to talk about it, she doesn't want to talk about it.

I'm in an odd place with my family and I'm wondering if any of y'all have experienced anything similar. tl;dr - different members of my family, especially my brothers, have different relationships and different levels of forgiveness for my abusive stepfather. I don't feel a need to forgive or accept...

There are so many different issues and disorders that match up to common life problems - is it depression? Is it PTSD? Is it ADHD? Why can't I focus? Why do I have no self-confidence? But honestly that CoDA list of signs of codependency feels like someone wrote my biography. I wish this episode felt...

I feel directionless sometimes when I feel like giving up. If what I really want is impossible, then what do I do with myself? Sometimes I feel like I'm standing outside in the dark and my hopes and dreams are the stars. I know what direction they're in, but when I try to go that way, I just take a ...

Thanks y'all. Reading back over that I am really frustrated by how much I'm letting a relationship that ended a year and a half ago dominate my life. Obviously it was a huge emotional injury but I hate feeling this stuck. On good days it seems like I've shed the worst of the baggage from it and now ...

I didn't want to go on too long in my intro post but I thought it might be a little cathartic to write out a more detailed account of my last extremely shitty couple of years and what brought me to this point and led me here. So here goes. I'm feeling more than a little lost in my life right now. I ...

Hey y'all. First off I just want to say hi. It seems like this board isn't extremely active any more but for whatever it's worth I'm glad to meet you. I'm working through a lot of stuff and I'm not really sure how it's going, but the MIHH show is a little bit of relief and acceptance every week and ...

Hey, I had that too! A few years back I changed meds and it took me a couple tries to realize that it was dairy products that were suddenly giving me debilitating stomach pain.

I'm glad the new meds are working out for you, though!

Hey. It sounds like you're in a really hard place. When I've thought about what I'd write in a suicide note, it's always been about getting people to finally hear and understand what I've been going through. I wonder if you're so hung up on getting your note right because you really, really want to ...