Support group
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"In Fight Club, a 30-year-old unnamed yuppie (Edward Norton) is advised by a psychiatrist to attend support groups to see real suffering. There, he meets a fellow 'vicarious sufferer (Helena Bonham Carter).'"--Sholem Stein |
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In a support group, members provide each other with various types of nonprofessional, nonmaterial help for a particular shared burdensome characteristic. The help may take the form of providing relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks. A support group may also provide ancillary support, such as serving as a voice for the public or engaging in advocacy.
See also
- Addiction
- AIDS
- Alzheimer's
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Anxiety disorders
- Asperger syndrome
- Bereavement
- Borderline personality disorder
- Breastfeeding
- Brain attack or Brain trauma
- Cancer
- Circadian rhythm disorders, e.g. DSPD, Non-24
- Codependency
- Diabetes
- Debtors Anonymous
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Erythema nodosum
- Ex-gay groups
- Families of addicts & alcoholics
- Fibromyalgia
- Gamblers Anonymous
- Grief
- Infertility
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Mental Health
- Miscarriage
- Mood disorders
- Narcolepsy
- Parkinson's disease
- Red Skin Syndrome/Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal
- Sexual abuse survivors
- Sleep disorders
- Stroke
- Stuttering
- Suicide prevention
- Ulcerative colitis
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