Time for a new topic. Support Groups - who goes to them?

[Denninmi]

Just curious. I am going to check out two of them. One meets once a month at the hospital were I was a patient and is for former patients. The other is the local chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance and meets twice a month.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. In my opinion, people who need their attitudes validated by more people.

I understand the problem,I just don't understand solution.

[Neoma]

3. I used to.

It was depressing so I stopped going.

[Denninmi]

4. Hey, I went. I kinda liked it.

I'm going to go back in 2 weeks and see. Everyone there seemed overall to be doing well.

[anon223]

5. My experience -

I had a period in my life where I felt that I had serious depression. I saw an ad for a support group, and called to get info. They told me that the support group was for people who:

were on meds
were not higher-functioning
or had other way serious issues

Therefore, I was not allowed to attend. This did not hurt my feelings - I realized that there were people who had it much worse than me, and I started cognitive therapy and St. John's Wort. Worked wonders.