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An essential element to resilience is to have a strong support group, ideally friends, or people who are going through a similar thing. In that vein - shameles
by marojejian 9y ago
An essential element to resilience is to have a strong support group, ideally friends, or people who are going through a similar thing.
In that vein - shameless plug:
I've been working on a service (www.campfire.care) to build peer support groups for any focus. Groups of 5-10 people with the same issue meet regularly via video and stay connected via chat.
The idea is that we are fundamentally social creatures, and struggling with a challenge alone is unhealthy. It is not therapy or a replacement for therapy. But peer support can be effective + inexpensive.
And being part of a true peer group can provide a kind of value that professional mental health can't. You can't be friends with you therapist, and their job is not to truly empathize with you.
Would love any thoughts / feedback!
- DanBC 9y agoYou might be interested in the Q Community's work on peer support: https://q.health.org.uk/q-improvement-lab/lab-1-peer-support-available/ https://q.health.org.uk/q-improvement-lab/lab-1-peer-support...
- marojejian 9y agoThanks! I will check this out.