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

I've been working on deep diving into things that I find really distressing about myself: - My obsession with wanting to be a success in my career, needing to achieve certain goals, and feeling self-hatred, anxiety and worthless when I don't. I think it's related to the importance of success in my f...

That's awesome. Well done for trying to keep routine going when holding the grief on your shoulders. I'm super numbed out this week - just consumed by sadness and pain. Feeling angry at myself, the world, and life. Telling myself "this will pass and better times are coming". Sort of leanin...

Still up for this folks.

I'm European time, but happy to accommodate US time.

Could be nice to just meet up, talk shit, check in on one another?

I’ve been him in this situation and the thing that worked was hearing “I think you need to seek counseling”. Delivered out of genuine concern, I accepted it. It was hard for me, but it worked out eventually. I couldn’t force the relationship to make my personal problems go away. And it was abusive ...

Hi everyone, Thanks so much for the support and advice. Yeah, I was a little shocked at my therapist too. I discussed it with her and told her I didn’t feel safe taking that action and she said I made the right choice to follow my own instinct and intuition. I hadn’t heard from him for two weeks and...

Hi everyone. My ex and I broke up a month ago. I asked for no contact agreeing we could be friends in the future but not for at least a year. Since then he has non stop text, called, and messaged on every platform he could. I warned him to stop or I’d block and it continued. Now he is sending me gif...

Hey all. A little late, but I'm interested.

I'd love Paul to interview Jerry Wise, he's a family systems coach on YouTube and seems like such a kind and admirable man. He is an expert in his field, too. I think him and Paul would do great work.

If anyone reads this, please bear with me as it's probably going to be a repetitive post. I'm also ashamed once again that I'm an adult and yet afraid of having a day, or worse a few days, off work. I told myself I would not post about this weekend, but here I am. The small plan I had to connect on...

Hey everyone, Haven't posted on here in so long! How am I feeling... Well, pretty rough, but I've also come a long way. Main things - Heartbroken after the end of my 2.5 year relationship - Struggling with setting boundaries with my family and the reality they can't be there for me. I know a bunch o...