Posted by sdb on May 14, 2005, at 5:46:00
In reply to Re: costless selfhelp groups, posted by Dr. Bob on May 13, 2005, at 22:49:58
Dear Dr. Bob,
I joined myself a costless self-helf group a long time ago without an observing medical doctor before studying. There were sufferes of depression/anxiety.
Positive aspects were: friendships, find out which doctor could be the best, go out and speaking in front of understanding people.
Perhaps less positive aspect: exchange information of drug effects (I think this is a clear positive property of your forum). Some persons of the self-help group had almost no knowledge of medicine or psychopharmacology. Because there were only fifteen people taking often the same drugs (time was during the peak of the SSRI hype, means use of SSRI's to treat every mental disorder) the possibility to find an appropriate drug for yourself was more difficult.
I have to work pretty hard this time, thus give me some weeks to find good quality links and information about costless self-help groups in [xxx].
I do not know how many people of [xxx] are registered in p-babble. But I suppose there are some and there is no equal forum in quality in [xxx].
Kind regards
sdb
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