Support Groups

[Phyllis]

Do any of you attend a support group?  If you do attend SG, does it help you? Do you have any in your area?
I would like to attend an SG meeting once, but I don't have one in my local area. Everything is an hour + away from me. 

[Gracie]

I have attended a few support groups. I went to one years ago when I lived in AZ. It was a little helpful. I went to one here in Metairie a few months ago. It was ok. I would recommend it, if you like to listen and talk to people. I would not drive 1 hour to get to one though.

[ray38]

 I wish there was some support groups in my area. I could probably benefit from going to one.

[clayton]

I was in a couple of day treatment groups a bunch of years ago, and I did not like it at all!! People were very secretive about their dx and their meds, played all  kinds of social games, the staff played games also, until one day I just walked out and never came back. This has soured me about any kind of group anything, practically, except for life at the Temple, where we are all agreed and therefore there are no collisions of egos (as I have found so much of in official "support groups".) Unless there is a personal policy of honesty and of not criticising others, I see no point in it. As St Paul says, " I will be judged of no man".

[jtokc]

I was in a support group years ago. I liked one girl there very much. I thought we were friends, in kind of a casual way. One morning I opened up the newspaper and saw that she had been in a shoot-out with the police in what i assume was a suicide by cop attempt. I never could get myself to go back. I felt like we had really missed out on helping her.

Jane