SUMMARY - Mental Health Self-Help Groups
A woman walks into a church basement for her first depression support group meeting, terrified that she will cry, that she will say the wrong thing, that others will judge her. An hour later she has heard her own experience reflected back in the words of strangers who understand what her friends and family cannot. She will return next week. A man attends his two thousandth twelve-step meeting, the ritual of showing up having become central to his recovery, the fellowship a constant when everything else has changed.