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

howdy, I'm Shawn from Seattle. Been a long time lurker here, until i decided to joined a while ago. The thing is, i been diagnose with bipolar 2, and some series of depression. just want to be in a support group like this site. hope i'm welcome here

Hello NeedAmor, welcome to our little forum! Make yourself at home in the threads and topics here (I see you have already done so admirably! )

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As you can see from your time here, you are not alone. Please keep the lines of communication open, cheers, all the best, we here are cheering for you and for your greatest today and tomorrow!

Welcome shawn!

Welcome!

Welcome Shawn, hope to get in touch with you soon.

Of course you're welcome here! I'd been a lurker before I mustered up the courage to join. But being able to interact and write your thoughts is so much better than just reading. Being a participant is so therapeutic. Even though we can't "see" each other face to face, it's wonderful to be able to share our stories and feel connected. Other sites are pretty strict and they edit your posts or delete your replies to someone, but this forum is pretty laid back and there's not a lot of "censoring" which I like. Paul G is doing an amazing job.

Greetings & salutations.

Hope you find some useful support here. For me the anonymity makes it easy to be honest, and I find that the process of typing things out to post here makes it easier to think clearly later when I'm trying to describe the same thing to my therapist or loved ones or even myself. It helps clarify my thinking.

Say hi to Seattle for me, I really miss the PNW.