Posted by Lorraine on July 26, 2001, at 10:22:19
In reply to Re: Support Groups » Phil , posted by Lorraine on July 25, 2001, at 0:57:51
Wanted to bring this to the top, as a reminder to Phil and me to keep the search alive.
> Well, I went to a DMDA meeting tonight (had to beat you to the punch!) It was loosely moderated. Everyone introduced themselves, said what their diagnosis was, whether they were med compliant, whether they were seeing a psychiatrist, psychologist or both, how they were feeling this evening and whether they had any topics they wanted to discuss that evening. Several people shared things that they were struggling with and the group was very non-judgmental. There was no pressure to contribute and I thought people were respectful in how they commented on other people's problems. It was not like group therapy--there was not a lot of crying or sharing of deep feelings. I generally just got the sense that this was a group of people with a chronic illness trying to deal with the issues associated with it.
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> I'm still taking it in to tell you the truth. I have a friend who belongs to AA and I know at first she felt like she had little in common with the groups she went to. I felt a bit like that, but I'm not sure that it isn't just resistence on my part. My plan is to attend several other meetings and see what I think at the end of it all.
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> I actually went to this meeting with another poster on this board--Neal (or rather I met him at the meeting as we had agreed). That was a cool thing to do and it was nice to actually meet another psychobabbler in person.
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