Posted by Dinah on July 27, 2003, at 14:15:18
I've contacted all the usual avenues, and the only support groups are for bipolar I and schizophrenia. There is only one support group for diabetes, and that one is during the day far away from where I live and work, and meets like once a month. Doesn't seem worth it.
While I think a DBT skills training group would be valuable to me (even though I may flunk on homework), there are no outpatient DBT groups either.
I think I may be ready to tentatively try a real life group situation. But I know I haven't the psychic armor necessary to tolerate a standard psychotherapy group.
They do have Reality Inc and some 12 step programs, but I have tried those and found the groupspeak so amusing that I know that I would not be able to make a positive contribution in that environment. I don't think it's required to use the specialized language in the 12 step programs, but Reality Inc requires you to use their language if you wish to speak.
On the other hand, maybe I'm fooling myself. Maybe the real life emotions of a real life group would overwhelm my too-sensitive reception systems, leading to flaming amygdala attacks. At the debtors anonymous meeting I attended, I was flooded by the emotions of those around me and found it next to impossible to remain to the end of the meeting.
Yet... I dunno.... I am having this odd desire to interact with real people, and in an arena where my natural feelings of social inferiority will be understood and tolerated until I can work through them (and I'm a slow worker).
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