I started a meet up group

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I started a meet up group and paid USD 4.99 for a month.I named it Depression and Social Anxiety support group with my city named in it.I created this group as suggested by my psychologist and I made one today,I was a little worried after making it because I had some other non MI related meetup,I might be stigmatized if they know about my group,anyway should I continue with this meetup,hopefully I get positive feedback for starting this meetup…

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One of the things lacking in our area is a social group for mental illness. Has been a few plans to start one but never gets very far. Much Kudos for starting one of your own. :yellow_heart: :blue_heart: :purple_heart: :green_heart: :heart:

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I can still change it to other types of meeting.Soccer or Gaming,I have had a few soccer group friends already,Gaming group seems boring but Mental illness support group around my city seems a good thing just that I am afraid I didn’t have much organize meetup and I don’t know what kind of people would I meet…

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good on you :+1:

i hope you can meet a whole bunch of interesting people :slight_smile:

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There are such groups around, including those put together by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI, see https://www.nami.org/), Emotions Anonymous (see http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/), Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families (see http://www.adultchildren.org/), Adults Molested as Children (see http://amac.usclargo.com/), and lord only knows how many more. I learned to be cautious about some of the individual meetings and the people in them, but on the whole, they’re pretty helpful.

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Those are support groups rather then social groups. We have support groups here also but no real social groups.

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What is the difference between support groups and social groups?

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I would love something like that in my city. My doc told me about a MI group in my area, but it just turned out to be for AA. That was an awkward night…

I would love the chance to talk to other schizophrenics in person.

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I am still in contact with one of my friend I met in a SZ support group,we met yesterday and we went shopping and chatted just like friends,mental illness and medication started our conversation,we talked about gaming and our problem too…

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you inspired me to join a local group in my area :slight_smile:

thx :+1:

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Social groups tend to do things recreational rather than just support. Go to the movies. bowling go out to dinner etc in a group.

Because most mentally ill people are such hermits it’s a lacking area that we need to address more. Having cut a lot of people out of life to grow ie drug users. My social life’s non existent so have looked into it.

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No problem and good luck to you joining a group…

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Good luck with your meetup group! I’ve joined quite a few meetup groups but have never actually been in person. Most of the people that go to the MI meetups in my area are older adults (40+) so i doubt that I would have much in common with them.

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What a great idea.

Seems like anyone could do this who wants to start meeting people locally.

Seems like it might be good to partner with a local support group or clubhouse and get them to pay for it.

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Incidentally,

If you can also search on “schizophrenia” or “mental illness” or “NAMI” etc. in the Meetup search to see if there are any existing meetups somewhat close to you.

Here is a search I did on all their system for “schizophrenia”

http://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=schizophrenia&radius=Infinity&userFreeform=San+Francisco%2C+CA&mcId=z94101&sort=default

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This is a great idea! Very proactive. A great way to help and take care of yourself! :thumbsup:

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Yay,I am going to a social anxiety group meetup,I am also have social anxiety.Although it’s in Singapore but it’s a holiday that day,so I should go to attend this meetup.I always tell people I lack social life,this is a chance for me to be social,hopefully I can slowly change my life…i have a dream lifestyle which is to go to meet people on the Internet and be a socialable guy and do things I am interested in like soccer,exercises…i work now,but I don’t really need a lot of money,I need friends,socializing and be happy with what I do,that’s my dream actually…

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Yea,sorry money is important,I don’t want to be special…but for now having and being loved is more important than money,understanding too…

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