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

Thank you kindly for the reply! :happy-wavemulticolor: Been a few days, I have been on an anti-depressant [cymbalta] for at least 6 months. This thing is kind of a miracle, I mean honestly if it wasn't regulating my depression I wouldn't be here posting. However, things are not as I wish they were y...

That was an amazing journey for me to read.

I am so happy you sounded better in your last post .

First off, my life is full of crazy shit in the middle of things I just don't understand. It has been a wild ride ever since I was born. There are things in here I will change of course, to protect the guilty, well mostly myself. This is an intro. Late 20s with an inner child that creeps out often a...

Hi Not Ready Yet!
Yeah I am still interested! , not sure how to go about it but I am in!

Hi all, fairly new to the forum but not to the podcast. I was wondering if we could add an HSP thread? I am a highly sensitive person as per Dr. Elaine Aron's test: http://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/ and it helped me a lot to understand this. Dr. Aron is a psychologist who researches di...

I cry when I feel safe. Mostly around friends/loved ones, which I guess sucks for them, but they all love me so hey :P. Also animals. I can cry at something really really beautiful, like nature, or stuff like that [must be the x chromosome], but sometimes I honestly can't cry, it depends what is goi...

Hey BrownBlob, thanks for the welcome. No worries about making it about yourself! I find comfort in knowing others understand where I am coming from, fuck shame! ^-^ Yeah, I totally get about just family not trying, I tried for so long, most of life honestly and I don't regret it, but it's over now ...

Hello all, I have been a long time listener of the show, it got me through a lot of bad and good times [yes, both, somehow :shock: ]. These days, when I wake up I tend to wake up and listen to a podcast, I listen to Paul's among my very few picks [because other days I just wake up to music and also ...