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

There is a risk of short term memory loss, but I believe this is a temporary condition. And she was as ill as they come, and for her to find relief from this, I think is an eye opener. I felt the same way when I read her story and met with people that had ECT done. My doctors told me the short term...

My therapist sometimes asks me to pretend as if I'm another person. So if I'm in a situation where I feel like I'm overreacting or behaving somehow inappropriately, I ask myself: If this exact same situation were happening to someone else, would these behaviors be reasonable? Usually the answer is y...

ECT was, and I suppose still is, an option. My psychiatrist was pushing it pretty hard, along with every other med in the book. I don't know that much about it, although I know of someone for whom it's supposedly worked well. But I think trying to decide while you're relatively stable seems sound. ...

I have definitely decided that if an episode that intense comes on again, ECT is my next course of action. I find it comforting to know that I've made that decision while in a moderately stable place, instead of making it while in the middle of an episode. For me the biggest help has been doing wha...

I thought I'd start a topic for those of us who have treatment resistant depression. I'll share a little bit that I've learned from my experiences.... What is treatment resistant depression? My psychiatrist gave me the following guidelines: Has the treatment failed to work? This includes years of mu...

I know this is an older question - but thought I'd add my reply to anyone still wondering about Disability for Mental Illness. Has anyone here ever been on disability for their mental illness? I feel like that's something I should consider if I lose my current job as clearly I'm not able to motivate...

Ok, so like most people here, I had a horrible childhood filled with unspeakable acts of violence and emotional abuse. All of it kept to myself and compartmentalized as best as I could. I found this podcast and have been listening to episode after episode. I'm helped so much to hear what others hav...

I don't cut as much as I used to. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I don't. And both choices are okay, they are ways of coping - and it's important to be able to make it through the moment you're in, but my choice at my best moment would to be doing something other than harming myself, so that is w...

Just be like you were before. Oh, you mean when I was lying to everyone? Yes! You seemed so much happier then. Yeah, in a lot of ways I feel trapped in the persona that my survival instinct created for myself. I didn't feel I was being fair to those that "knew" me, to all the sudden be th...

Hi All - I've recently started a blog that focuses on my experiences with PTSD, depression, and suicide. I've been working on it for a few months, but am finally now taking the chance in posting and letting others know about it. I'm only about 3 posts in, but I have about 5 other articles I've been ...