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

The comedic actor, improviser and longtime Conan O'Brien sidekick opens up about his battles with depression, worry, anxiety and sadness and how he has learned to manage them with talk therapy. He also shares about the illusion he held that acquiring money and getting married would "fix him". He talks about growing up in a combative, eventually-divorced house where humor was prized and how he felt shortly after that, learning his father had come out as gay.

http://mentalpod.libsyn.com/andy-richter

I have been struggling to find a therapist that is a good fit for me and the timing of this episode is uncanny. When Andy was talking about how you just have to keep trying until something works but also empathized with how impossible that can feel while depressed just felt like the universe speaking directly to me at a moment when that was what I needed to hear. I will keep trying. Thank you Andy & Paul.

Man, I totally get that too. It's hard to explain just how difficult it is to be motivated to do *anything* when you're in the throes of depression.

I really enjoyed this episode. I had no idea about Andy's parents and his own struggles, even though I've been a fan for over 20 years.

Funny thing. I was on YouTube only recently watching episodes of "Andy Richter Controls the Universe."

If you can get a message to Andy, please let him know there's still at least one person out here who thinks that was the best show ever.