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

Do you find yourself thinking about smoking throughout the day? Do you find it difficult to control how much you smoke once you start? I can't comment on parenting as I have no kids, but pot isn't as harmless as people like to say. Like alcohol, many people can use it and have no problems. It was a ...

Thank you. Tomorrow I'll be two months clean. There's hope for everyone if you just put out your hand and ask for help.

Wow, this is weird to be looking back on. After that post, things got much worse for me. I continued drinking and smoking pot, but this past January I added cocaine to the mix. It was a steep decline. I bought a couple grams with some friends on New Years Eve and made contact with a dealer. From tha...

Thanks for the response NC. I've been trying to curb my behaviour, to some effect. I went to an open AA meeting two weeks ago, and there was over 100 people there. It kind of freaked me out and I left. I've been trying to muster up the courage to go back. It seemed like a very supportive environment...

I used Zyban (Wellbutrin) to quit smoking, while I was in therapy for depression. I noticed it really helped with my depression/anxiety. When I stopped after I managed to quit smoking, I felt sooooo low. My doctor put me on Celexa (from 10-60 mg at the end) which helped, but the sexual side-effects ...

My preferred combo for many years now. It tended to be more weed for quite a while, and the occasional drunken Friday/Saturday night. These past couple months I've been drinking almost every night. It's hard to picture myself not getting drunk. I know looking at the 'big picture' when you're in the ...

I do this sometimes. Get real excited about something and just kind of drop it. I still love to listen to the show, but I tend to stop commenting on stuff. Thanks for the responses, I am going to AA tomorrow actually. And I'm back in therapy.

Here's hoping I can get my shit under control again.

Hi Paul, et al, I've been dealing with depression for well over ten years, which I sort of discovered recently. I'm 27, and started going to therapy about a year ago when I couldn't take how much I was self-medicating and just feeling like such an empty husk. I've been an addict of sorts for a while...