Together is Better - More Support
We all know how hard grief and bereavement is to overcome and put your life back on track. I came across another 
support site that may help you MDJunction. Support groups can be a great way of connecting with other people who have suffered loss.
One thing to watch is that you don’t use it to feed your depression, use it to try and find away through the depression. It is easy when you are feeling down to almost enjoy the feeling, I know I did, though I would have ardently denied it at the time….and that is ok in the short term but in the long term you have to find a way of turning the negative into a positive - that is why I publish a postivie thinking carnival each Sunday.
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1 opinion for Together is Better - More Support
Ed
Dec 27, 2006 at 6:53 am
For information on face-to-face self-help support groups, and a few local self-help group clearinghouses that help to people find find and start local groups, there’s the American Self-Help Group Clearinghouse at http://www.selfhelpgroups.org
“My years as a medical practitioner, as well as my own first-hand experience, have taught me how important self-help groups are in assisting their members in dealing with problems, stress, hardship and pain… the benefits of mutual aid are experienced by millions of people who turn to others with a similar problem to attempt to deal with their isolation, powerlessness, alienation, and the awful feeling that nobody understands… Health and human service providers are learning that they can indeed provide a superior service when they help their patients and clients find appropriate peer support.”
- former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD, who also served as a member of Compassionate Friends, an international self-help group for bereaved parents, following the sudden death of his own college age son.
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