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

i hate my Asperger's and social anxiety, on top of my depression. It make social connections so difficult, and that is what i crave. i just walk through life and social connections just don't stick or for other reasons i have to let them die. there are times i feel so lonely, i am acutely aware of ...

I don’t feel comfortable offering too much more. There’s your boyfriend and now your cousin failing to meet a need you understood to be clear. And what you term your social anxiety being so powerful that you cannot check in with them about it; indeed so powerful that you’d accept a doomed fate rath...

oak wrote: ↑January 1st, 2022, 10:24 am RIT, thank you for sharing. I’m glad your holidays are going well.

I’d write more, but I’m not feeling well from the omicron.

Hang in there! Keep us posted

So sorry you got the ‘vid!!! I hope you are fully recovered by now. I hope it wasn’t too severe.

Unless it feeds their sense of purpose, a lot of people are inclined to offer experiences a few times only. Unless the offer to host an experience is reciprocated and turn-taking ensues, they tend to relent and stop offering. It’s possibly not even conscious or deliberate, just human nature. Even i...

Love that kitty! 😊 Well I hope everyone made it through. I’m currently at my mom’s, been here since the 18th, going back on Jan 5th. It’s been a pretty nice visit. I was initially thinking that I didn’t have enough time for a good visit, but I’m already almost ready to go home. I am struggling right...

fwiw, I could take your “resentment” ideas and do a search/replace with “anger” or “rage” and it would be 100% accurate for me.

I get it.

First off, please accept my apologies for temporarily ghosting this place. I started programming again, yay! I’m doing much better with balancing my time (not spending 12 solid hour chunks of time glued to the computer), but between that, working out, and housekeeping chores, I just don’t spend much...

Hi beany 🙂 I’m doing my best to not ghost again, lol… Yeah I get what you’re saying. The tough thing for me is -discernment- between what could/would/should be a deal breaker, and what can be worked through in time. Since I have a history of staying in abusive relationships way, way longer than I sh...

Thanks for checking on me, oak! ☺️ I’m much better today. In my relationships, I am an expert at avoiding conflict. It takes a LOT, either an egregious boundary violation, or one of my hyper-sensitive triggers, to make me say something in the moment. And that’s almost never a good thing, because tha...