Support Groups
In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a shared, usually burdensome, characteristic. Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping strategies, to feel more empowered and for a sense of community.
The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others’ experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks.
A support group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy.
- Addiction
- AIDS
- Alzheimer’s
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Anxiety disorders
- Asperger syndrome
- Bereavement
- Borderline personality disorder
- Breastfeeding
- Brain attack or Brain trauma
- Cancer
- Circadian rhythm disorders, e.g. DSPD, Non-24
- Codependency
- Diabetes
- Debtors Anonymous
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Erythema nodosum
- Ex-gay groups
- Families of addicts & alcoholics
- Fibromyalgia
- Gamblers Anonymous
- Grief
- Infertility
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- LBGT
- Miscarriage
- Mood disorders
- Narcolepsy
- Parkinson’s disease
- Red Skin Syndrome/Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal
- Sexual abuse survivors
- Sleep disorders
- Stroke
- Suicide prevention
- Ulcerative colitis
- Women empowerment