hi, has anyone been to a bipolar support group in their area?
i'm going, tonight.
I hope you have a good un Grace68.
I have been to lots of support groups. When I first watched the opening 20 minutes of Fight Club I was in stitches and my g/f of the time thought I was being an idiot; but then, she'd never been to a support group (perhaps I am an idiot).
You will meet some amazing people, I mean, truly amazing. Inspiring even. If all goes well. Or, the worst that will happen is you'll meet a lot of very amazing though drugged up people, who, if only for the drugs, would be perfectly capable of inspiring you but...
The great thing about bipolar support groups is that everyone ends up competing with everyone else and the infighting is beyond comprehension; by week 4 if you haven't slept with at least 3 other members you'll be held in great suspicion.
I once went to a support group where it was heavily invigilated by a 'normal' volunteer - to protect us from one another. They were very conservtaive christian and ex-asylum worker having retired in the late 80s. This one week they didnt make it in, and so the group went on. It had been arranged that a current mh worker would take over the 'supervision' but they didnt make it either. So a bunch of us decided to hit the town and go on a pub crawl. O, what a night!