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

Growing Pains Growing up is accepting we can’t save everyone. Especially those we love. Especially from themselves. It’s learning everything we thought we knew, was wrong; and sometimes what we thought was wrong is right. It’s cutting anchors loose on friendships and realizing some storms are univer...

Thank you Heather!! Sorry for the delayed response.
I love that you picked that out. It’s a hard thing to remember, sometimes. That brokenness is just another story.

Awwww!! That brought such a genuine smile to my face and filled me with warmth

Thank you, I’ll gladly take that leap

We don’t have to become whole We don’t have to fix or tinker with our bodies Certain we are the tin man Trying to earn back our heart There is no saving or rescuing No war to win We are not the damsel or the hero There is no happy ending There is just our lives Needing to be lived Wanting to be worn...

Loneliness is a trick our mind plays to keep us in the forty foot tower with no exits

We all fear
We all love
We all think about jumping from the tower sometimes

SD,

Thank you for the welcome! And the nice words about my poetry

I’ve been to a few spoken words, but not a poetry slam, though I’ve always wanted to. I love seeing poetry performed.

It has really helped to post on here. Anytime I feel alone I read what others have to say and it helps so much

Thank you, Heather. Your response touched mine

It is because I took the dr. Seuss book back, because I pick my cuticles til they bleed, because I can’t dog ear the books I read, because I replay how he said ‘okay’ on loop, because I can’t hang out in too large groups, because I have to keep the volume at even numbers, because I ignore my stomach...

Thank you. Wow. Your kind words made me cry. The good, healing kinda cry. You know when you read something at just the right time. ‘We are only as sick as our secrets’ came at the right time.

I want to go back in time and take my innocence back Refuse to sign my voice away for acceptance and a stupid pair of legs Stand tall and proud like I belong in this world Make it so my first kiss wasn’t my sister Make it so my sister’s first kiss wasn’t my uncle Undo it all so that going out on a S...