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

My first week on meds: I really like the doctor I saw. My lid had been loosened so much from all I'd been working on in weekly therapy that I did a pretty solid job trying to explain myself to her in the hour's time that we had. She gave me a few suggestions and did her best to help me weigh the pro...

Hey buddy, I hope you're feeling better. Hopefully you are seeing in retrospect that you were in pain, thought you might need help, and knew to ask for it. And of course the dentist was looking out for you and did what they thought was right. So it sounds like you received some pretty quality care, ...

This is really nice having some people to talk to like this guys. I can't express how much the enouragement here means to me, and I feel a little less daunted by my own words already. Plust I woke up with a headache today so the pain of writing has a little less leverage over me ;) I'm glad to get t...

Hi there! New to the forum, and found this post almost instantly. I'm sorry to see this never got picked up elsewhere (if so please lemme know). I'll admit that I wasn't familiar with CD before reading this but it sounds starkly similar to one of my main reasons for being here, and seeking outside h...

Hi, I have just spent 5+ hours trying to write an introduction for myself. I wrote and wrote and deleted and deleted and edited myself into oblivion. I wanted to say absolutely everything about myself I wanted to, I wanted to feel a sense of catharsis, I wanted to represent myself unambiguously and ...

Hey there, My insecurities in full swing, I didn't expect such fast and thoughtful replies after my first post here. Truth be told I thought I might see an email alert about them too, which I guess I didn't, but either way I decided not to start compulsively checking back here so tried to push it to...

Hi all, New to the forum, so apologies if this is a repeated topic. I'm very bad at writing about myself. I'm going to try for some brevity here but feel free to ask me any questions that might help lead to better feedback. My question for the forum is twofold: 1. I've been afraid of taking meds bas...