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

I went to my GP a few years ago, I had recently broken up with my girfriend, was going through a financially-crippling divorce (is there any other kind!), had recently suffered a career setback and fractured my wrist falling of my bike on a morning commute. I seemed to be coping ok until it dawned o...

Welcome Fortune Faded! And just love the upbeat nick name! ;) Don't beat yourself up about the meds. Sure, they have some stigma, and I was as guilty as any in buying into that whole thing (and not being an American, one of our favourite stereotypes of "you guys" was that half of you were ...

I wont speak for Paul, but I'd imagine anyone so attuned to their country's politics that they are driven to create such a wonderful, pitch-perfect parody (I'll say parody so as to not offend anyone too much!) as Richard Martin must find it hard to not let it get them down sometimes. For better or w...

Welcome Paul! (Well I thought you might get a little forlorn that yours is the only posting without a welcoming response) I like your five things, and whilst I guess they're pretty obvious (?) the "helping others" is one that might not always spring to our minds. It was a strong point of a...

Came here from listening to Paul on Jimmy Dore's podcast. I'm deluded enough to think I'm not here for solutions but more out of curiosity and just wanting to support a great idea of Paul's. I've always seen the glass as half empty but have been lucky enough to have never sunk to any real dramatic d...