>> Support groups are supposed to be about making friends (or at least acquaintances) with people "like you", <<
Most of them are not aimed at friendship, but rather at making clear the problem is had by many people. Some support groups are also about sharing solutions to challenges. It would be useful to have support groups aimed at making friends or otherwise expanding one's social network.
>> but I've found they rarely work for me unless the membership is highly diverse and tolerant. This is not always easy to find, and support for the problems I've had has been limited (nearly always the case). <<
That's understandable.
Support groups work best for people who are highly responsive to others, and preferably, extroverts. For people whose motivations arise from within, they're less useful, and for introverts they are often ruinously destructive.
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Re: Phil isn't
Date: 2014-09-08 05:18 am (UTC)Most of them are not aimed at friendship, but rather at making clear the problem is had by many people. Some support groups are also about sharing solutions to challenges. It would be useful to have support groups aimed at making friends or otherwise expanding one's social network.
>> but I've found they rarely work for me unless the membership is highly diverse and tolerant. This is not always easy to find, and support for the problems I've had has been limited (nearly always the case). <<
That's understandable.
Support groups work best for people who are highly responsive to others, and preferably, extroverts. For people whose motivations arise from within, they're less useful, and for introverts they are often ruinously destructive.