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

Hi. I'm Daisy. I listen to the podcast most days on my drive to work. It's so helpful hearing others' stories, how they deal or do not with their complexities. Paul Gilmartin, you make the day easier. Thank you. While I'm okay with so much about my life, I rarely let myself see this, and live it. I'...

I used to use cutting as a way to relieve panic. I'd get so anxious and so freaked and feel like my body was seizing up, something needing to escape, and just picking up a pair of scissors and shortly and sharply slashing myself anywhere seemed to relieve that feeling. I also think a bloody cut, in ...