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

Writing this intro has been giving me anxiety haha. I started writing and totally deleted it so many times. I didn't really think I ever had anxiety, but now that I've been thinking about my own mental illness... I'm pretty sure I've had it my whole life!

I started listening to the podcast a couple months ago, after a particularly fraught family trip.

I've come to the realization that I've been minimizing everything! Ignoring my ADD and any other mental illness I may have, trying to move on without addressing my issues. Pretty sure I've got CEN - listening to the Dr. Jonice Webb episode was fucking mind blowing.

I'm almost 27 and I've decided I need to open up this can of worms that is my life and hopefully make some sense of it.

Hello!

hi SMW
Welcome to the forum and good luck sorting through your can of worms.

I am 38 I think you are brave to open the whole can of worms - I am reluctant to let one out at a time - seriously think that if I let the whole can open at once I would die of cardiac arrest - way too much intense overload -

I would be like way dead - like past zombie dead or feeling dead inside - like morgue dead... the door knob would say - dude she is way deader than me...