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

Holy fuck! Father’s Day. I think I might just hate my farther. Hate is such a strong word. I rarely use it. I know that I hate my bio brother. He is such an unrepentant asshat douchconoe. But he learned it from our ‘father’. Larry is not a dad or Dad. He is not a father either. He is a sperm donor w...

Brown blob, I get you. I see where you are coming from. I have experienced a shit ton of abuse as well. Physical, mental, sexual and emotional. Perhaps I am an idiot but I do see kindness in the world. Sometimes it is hard to find. Sometimes I do not see it for a very long time. But just when I am a...

I totally get that bigeekgirl. The people pleaser in me should get overtime pay. It is just that I have been burned a bunch of times. I have been working with a counselor to set healthy boundaries. The first thing I need to do is to decide what my wants and needs are. What?! This is so new to me. I ...

How do we figure out who to trust!? How do we know who has hidden motives and who is kind to us solely because they are kind people?!

Thank you bigeekgirl. It is good to know that others are in the same boat. I can’t tell you how much it means to know that others feel as I do. I feel horrible that I think that people suck. I much prefer the company of my fur kids. No expectations. Just love. I so wish humans could be so kind.

Ahh yes! What to do, what to do. Fuck,fuck,fuck. I HATE that I don’t trust anyone. I hate that I am constantly wondering what others want from me. I hate that I only think that you want something from me, otherwise you wouldn’t call. But that is my reality. As far as I can see, people only contact m...

I see you and I hear you and you are not alone. Sister, that you are fearful of these things makes me hopeful for our collective future. We need people like you. We need thoughtful and sensitive souls to help raise the children of our world as kind and thoughtful beings. We need you to be beacons of...

I am so used to people being unkind to me that when someone is actually nice to me I wonder why. How fucked up is that? I am so sad that I can’t seem to accept kindnesses without wondering why that person is being nice to me or doing something kind for me. It feels so odd. People just don’t do nice ...