I have been going to NAMI meetings every week. They are on Zoom for now. A couple other schizophrenics there and one schizoaffective.
It’s a group in a different Parish than mine. That is like a county in other states. They say they might go back to in person though so I would have to go in my Parish. Don’t know if I will do that.
I might start going to meetings for that once I get my new microphone/headset. Right now my laptop makes too much noise with its fan that when I do zoom I get muted by the mod because the sound is so bad. Im still doing zoom meetings. I do one on facebook for spirituality and mental health…cant wait to get my new headset!! I also have to do zoom for my social work class so this microphone will be a game-changer…
How do you like the NAMI meetings so far? Do you feel you benefit from them?
Ya. They are good. People with similar problems holding down jobs, meds, suicidal ideation and other things most people don’t deal with.
A large contingent of AA members have stayed online although F2F meetings are available for most again. We just like the online meetings better.
I went to a NAMI meeting several years ago. I was the only person diagnosed with sz, and people acted afraid of me once they found out. Never went back. It really hurt my feelings since they’re sick too. No one is perfect
may or may not be worth it.
I’m certified thru them, Peer to Peer.
wanted to go to be an instructor, but they don’t those classes anymore.
it’s all about bi-polar isn’t it?
Yeah. Everyone had bipolar or depression
I attended a DBSA zoom meeting online and I felt like a fish out of water.
Everyone there were so social and high functioning.
Don’t know if I’ll go back.
My parish doesn’t have a support group right now. They say there aren’t enough people. I would have to go to the family group. But this other place has a few. A couple of them are schizophrenic.
One guy is young and he says he is in a program that pays for his college and the rent for his apartment. I forget what he said it was. He is schizophrenic too.
The few F2F meetings I went to for SZs were horrible. A room full of over medicated lumps that sort of slumped in their chairs and said nothing, except for the couple that talked over each other about their delusions in extraordinary detail. The moderator (facilitator?) couldn’t get the lumps to say anything or the manic ones to shut the hell up.
They made me feel suicidal, tbh.
lol… this made me laugh…
What a horrible experience @shutterbug . Geez!
I always rocked in my chair at those meetings or seminars, wasn’t even a rocking chair.
Pretty sure some parts of my body were flopping around because side-effects, but I was solidly in with the lump contingent otherwise.
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