hi, is anyone involved in some sort of group activity?
when i was really bad i went out bowling and to play snooker in a group from my resource centre
and when i was hospitalized my p/doc asked me if i liked horses and i said yes and she asked me what kind of horse i liked and i said a white one lol, it was really nice because she was focusing my head on something else and she said when i got out i could go horse riding in her group and sure enough i did, it was horse riding for the mentally ill, it was awesome and i really miss doing that.
i also went to a drop in centre and they had lots of stuff to do there too, we had group activities there like pool and other things.
I used to be involved with group activities. I would go to the day hospital and we would go do something as a group. Then I ended up in some of my Dad’s art classes. That was a little stressful. Some of my AA group will have something going on. If it’s not dinner and a movie I can join in that.
Last summer I tried to get back into the Master’s team for swimming. Some of those guys are so macho serious that they suck all the joy out of the swim. I just shake my head and think… Really? You’re going for macho on this? We’re swimmers. We’re all pretty dang gangly.
I come and go as far as group stuff. Sometimes I’m really into it. Other times, not so much.
The horse riding sounds great. What a cool therapist to get you involved with that.
Are you thinking of getting back into a group activity?
The only group activity i do is a so called 'health and well being ’ group run by the rehab team at the local Mind centre. There are four of us and two or more staff.
We discuss diet/exercise/do quizzes//discuss the news items in the paper/have talks from police(so far) and also lined up fire service/pharmacist/nutritionist/.
It gets me out of the house for a couple of hours.
At one point i did activities at the resource centre but that stopped in 2009 because i was having difficulties with the groups i was down for, and so got discharged from there.
If there was a drop in i’d go there but the local Rethink closed all the drop ins.
Rethink do have a few activities in the community including peer led one’s. Unfortunately nothing run by Rethink suited me so in the end they took me off their books.
Have any of you guys been told to leave the mental health drop in, in favor of a seniors center? I’m only 30 but my workers feel I would be better off at the Seniors Center. Why?