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What are self-help groups?

  • Share experiences, information, and strategies for living successfully with mood disorders
  • Peer-led
  • Safe & non-judgmental
  • Confidential
  • Everyone has a chance to talk, if desired
  • Meet regularly
  • Free of charge

What they’re NOT

  • Not therapy or treatment
  • Not a place to diagnose
  • Not a “pity party”
  • Not an expert giving a lecture
  • Not a replacement for professional care

     
Family & Friends Group.
The family and friends group is solely for friends, spouses, parents and children of people affected with mental disorders. Our purpose is to offer support, share coping skills and information on how to live and help someone with the disorder. We often have a feeling of being alone and abandoned, not understood at work or are the target of our spouse or child's illness. Meeting and sharing with other can be a great help.
Dual Diagnosis Group
Substance abuse and alcoholism are common factors in mental illness. As we recover and need to maintain medications this can be extremely difficult. This group is not aligned with AA or NA but asks it's members to seek out any help needed. We meet to share strategies and recovery with substance abuse and mental illness.