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

Ive always said Im wired backwards. Depressants like alcohol make me hyper while stimulants shut me down. My wife took Phentermine, a stimulant, years ago and I tried one. It made my brain eerily quiet. It literally sounded like a sea shell in there. Just an hollowness, only 1 thought at a time and ...

Also, I will add a few things. I always had trouble concentrating on things...like playing guitar----I would sit down and try to learn from a book, or online lessons, but I would get this sort of headache and give up after 10 minutes. I mean real pain in a way.....Ive read that some of bipolar can m...

I have suffered with depression most of my life, from age 12 or so to now, (46) . I also have low self esteem, social anxiety, some traumatic background etc. Also never could concentrate very well...although I was always very intelligent and tested well, my school career was difficult because of org...