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

Side bar, I like the title you chose for your post. I have said before to trusted friends when trying to explain my issues and whatnot that sometimes it's hard to have my brain. Like, really Fucking hard. But it has its perks. It's sort of separate from the rest of me and I'm trying to understand it...

So well put!! That fight when you KNOW it's totally unreasonable to feel so upset or overwhelmed about basic stuff but can't control. I just had that exact wave yesterday when my car broke down out of town. I was able to get a ride home, vehicle towed to a garage, all that normal stuff, but not afte...

Hi Sallie Maes Bitch I do the same thing with my beard. I've never done it before this current time growing it out. Around a year into it I have been pulling and picking at it to find split ends or that's how it started. Now sometimes I catch myself after I've been doing it without even realizing wh...

I see! That's very interesting. I would imagine also a relief? I know the first time I began to research the topic I was extremely relieved as it made so much sense to me. Now I know a word other than weird to describe myself, there's not something Wrong with me, and also other people know what it's...

Hi manuel moe! I wonder what you mean by cheated out of relationships earlier in your life. Do you mean that people didn't want to be friends or because you were never taught how to socialize properly, given the lack of natural skills to do so? I think I understand what you mean. I have to say my ex...

I am curious to hear someone's story about being diagnosed on the spectrum as an adult and how the idea even came to be. For myself, I was in therapy for a while and my counselor had an extremely difficult time figuring out how I operate I guess you could say. Some of this was due to not being a gre...

Distraction is a devious thing indeed. I have been hearing Paul say on the podcast that it's not the device that's the problem, necessarily, rather the way it's being used. How true that is. I wonder if the high functioning appearance is due to the huge amount of negative self talk that helps get me...

The book by Jonice Webb is great also by the way. Alot of Amen's there. It was interesting to hear the different types of parenting styles and how each parent fits in. My parents were divorced and both remarried so it was very confusing for me with so many different things going on. But I definitely...

I thought of another instance of how being highly sensitive appears in my daily life. So I work third shift alone and sometimes I will walk to the glass entry door at my shop to peek around and see if there's a bunny eating the corn I put out for it. If I do see one I get extremely excited, try to c...

Hey Rc409, I hear ya with the dream problems. I hope by now you've found some help for it and if so I'm curious what helped you. My own dreams come in stretches, usually accompanied by daytime depression cycles. Not a fun combo. Mine are usually involving me being chased by someone in a horror film ...