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

Hi Erin, my name is Lisa. I live in Canada and I’m also 25. It seems like a lifetime ago now, but (I think) I have experienced what you are experiencing. I have never come across anyone who could relate to what I went through, so I am so excited to find your post here. I want to say first, that I am...

Also x2, to add on to the original "Introducing Myself" post, I figured I'd share (for anyone who has read this far and feels a connection to my story) my responses to Paul's "Struggle in a Sentence" survey that I took a couple of days ago: If you struggle with any of these, in ...

Also, I am so sorry you are terrified of changing medication. I would be too, it's a scary thing to do Yeah, I don't even know what to do about this side of things. I would rather be med free preferably. Though I'm not ruling out changing to something new. I just truly believe the Cipralex (Lexapro)...

Hi Brooke. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I did a lot of research and it seems like sleeping during the night is imperative for energy, so shift workers who work during the night and people who have disrupted sleeping patterns tend to have lethargy and brain fog. Maybe one day in the future I w...

Hey guys, my name is Lisa. I am 25 years old and living with anxiety and depression/ dysthimia . I battled with a drug-induced psychosis (derealization) and panic disorder that shook my life to its core about 7 years ago. I am still not fully recovered. To quote a line from Charlotte Bronte's Jane E...