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

I hope your session was productive and you are doing well today! I just want to say that any therapist that would judge a person for expressing themselves purely, in whatever form that takes, including tears, would not be a good therapist. What you take for judgement is likely them trying to underst...

That's awesome to hear that you're giving it another shot! Sometimes the fit of the modality of therapy is just as important as the fit of the therapist. If CBT was not for you, another modality may be the key. Best of luck with the new therapy journey!

I agree with moose. If the therapist isn't working for you, switch. My first week on BetterHelp was a waste. My assigned therapist was not right for me at all. I confronted her about it and her response and indifference confirmed my intuition. I switched therapists and am enjoying my current pick. Y...

I am so sorry you experienced a criminal level of physical and emotional neglect in childhood. I hope you are in a safer place now. There are some episodes of the podcast where Paul talks about affordable therapy options. There may be something in your area available at a reduced rate, or maybe you ...

I love it when my cat decides the bathmat is mortal enemy #1 and gets in a wrestling match with it, back paws kicking, rolling around with the bathmat biting at it, and then I peek around the corner and they freeze! Wasn't doing nothing mom! Lol

Thank you so much for all of this information! I read and saved all of it. I was definitely afraid to bail on this therapist because cutting and running can be a bit of a pattern for me, especially with jobs. But reading those articles confirmed that I made the right decision to move on from each of...

I have been struggling to find a therapist that is a good fit for me and the timing of this episode is uncanny. When Andy was talking about how you just have to keep trying until something works but also empathized with how impossible that can feel while depressed just felt like the universe speakin...

Well I changed BetterHelp therapists. When I asked if I was someone she wanted to work with she seemed indifferent either way. She wasted the first half of out first live session trying to make a phone call work but when the call wouldn't stop glitching she basically said oh well, get it sorted out ...

Do you have any suggestions as to what to ask your therapist or are there resources out there that you know of for interviewing a therapist? I fully get the need to be deeply understood. I feel so dismissed and unseen in daily life that it really hurts when my therapist also seems to act in a way th...

So today my therapist said to me that I seem to have thought of everything already so she doesn't see much point in continuing to give me suggestions. So what can she do for me at this point, she asks. This is the second time I've been faced with this question by a therapist and I immediately feel l...