Thursday, April 30, 2009

Support groups

I've decided to try an in-person support group. Finding one has not been easy, and I live in a large city. I haven't found one specifically for generalized anxiety disorder, so I am going to try a Recovery, Inc., group, which helps people with all sorts of mental problems. They have a lot of active groups in my area, such as this one. If you've had any experience with this organization, I'd love to hear about it. I did look into Emotions Anonymous, but it is too spiritually based for me. Finally, I did apply for Compeer, a mentoring program, but my local chapter is very slow at responding to inquiries (and completely ignored one of my relatives). So finding "offline" support has not been easy, but I hope it's worth it.

4 comments:

Kaci said...

Good luck, I hope that it helps :)

Doug said...

Me, too. Hey, it can't hurt! It's amazing how hard it is to find a group!

Syzygy said...

Thanks for the mention of Recovery and Meetup.com People Like Us. As a member of Recovery International for almost 8 years I can tell you without any doubt it saved my life. I hope it can do the same for you and anybody else who takes the time to investigate it.

Doug said...

Thanks, Syzygy. I'm really looking forward to trying it!