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

It seems I’m very much not finished with sleeping pills. In fact I’ve started to take 8mg of the benzo instead of 6. I’ll run out soon and I’ll be pretty sick I’m sure. I’m not quite sure what to do. I don’t know if any support groups or how to find them. Especially with Ontarios Covid numbers at 10...

Thank you everyone. I’m not well. I’m trying to be ok but I’m failing.

I want to end my life.

I don’t think I’ve wanted anything more in my entire life.

Everything feels broken and unfixable.

I don’t have what it takes mentally or physically to change any of this.

I’m sorry I’m so vague. I don’t know why I started to type with no strength to finish it.

Thank you everyone. It’s not been going well but I’m trying.

8 years go I moved cross country to be with a guy I though was the one. Things didn’t turn out too great and eventually I started to need to escape my life somehow. I started taking 50 mg of an over the counter sleep medication and boy did it change my life. If I was having a bad day I just took a p...

I am a 35 year old Female from Canada. I was diagnosed at 13 wit clinical depression and chronic anxiety as well as OCD and Tourette Syndrome. To start, I was one hell of a shitty teenager and my parents were saints to have put up with me. I was being treated but was unaware at the time that not eve...