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

Kati Morton is a therapist who has a YouTube channel where she talks about a variety of mental health subjects. (Paul interviewed her in Episodes 214 and 226.) One of the things she says quite often about therapy is "therapy is a job. And some people suck at their jobs." I've had similar f...

Possibly... Corey spoke so little it's hard for me to tell. This was another episode where I think it would interesting to hear from the person being interviewed (Daisy) again a few years from now. I wonder if she would look back at this time in her life and see it as a phase she went through. So ma...

Hi AdmiralIndigoish,

I started an HSP thread here: http://mentalpod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=11839. See you over there.

Greetings all: I'm starting this new thread in response to another conversation http://mentalpod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=11795 . For anyone not familiar with the term Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), aka Sensory Processing Sensitivity, here's a brief definition from Wikipedia: Sensory proce...

Hi AdmiralIndigoish, Just saw this topic today... I'd be open to talking about HSP topics with you, if you're still interested. IDK if we can start our own sub-forum, but we could probably start an HSP thread under 'Do other people feel like you do' on the 'Non Disordered Struggles' sub-forum. I'd b...

My favorite moment from this episode, at about 1:06:15... “You know, one of the things that has helped me is to try to break my life into smaller pieces in terms of thinking about them, and the one that really works for me is to just think about today. Because if I begin to think about where my life...

Interesting episode, although I had some mixed reactions to it. One thing that did pop out at me: when Jessie talks about being easily startled, exhausted by crowds, it sounds like she might be what is known as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), aka sensory processing sensitivity. This is a trait in w...

Mind if I borrow the phrase "aggressive apathy?"

It's time to go fight the pile of mail I haven't opened. Ugh.

"I don't want the hassle of doctors appointments, referral from primary care to a specialist, playing Russian roulette with side effects for new and changing medications." Wow, yes. Been there several times. I loathe shuffling my schedule around to accommodate appointments and sitting in w...

How about Daryl Davis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis He's a black musician who, as the son of a diplomat, spent his early childhood living overseas. He came home to the U.S., and was shocked by the racism he encountered. He has befriended 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan who have chosen to...