Resources
Support groups - by disease and condition
Counselors sometimes work with a group of people (support group) to help identify problem issues and direct members towards understanding and personal wellness.
Information
Local and national support groups can be found on the web, through local libraries, your health care provider, and the yellow pages under "social service organizations."
- AIDS - resources
- Alcoholism (or alcohol use disorder) - resources
- Allergy - resources
- ALS - resources
- Alzheimer's - resources
- Anorexia nervosa - resources
- Arthritis - resources
- Asthma and allergy - resources
- Autism - resources
- Blindness - resources
- BPH - resources
- Breastfeeding - resources
- Bulimia - resources
- Burns - resources
- Cancer - resources
- Cerebral palsy - resources
- Celiac disease - resources
- Child abuse - resources
- Chronic fatigue syndrome - resources
- Chronic pain - resources
- Cleft palate - resources
- Colon cancer - resources
- Cystic fibrosis - resources
- Depression - resources
- Diabetes - resources
- Digestive disease - resources
- Drug abuse (or substance use disorder) - resources
- Eating disorders - resources
- Elder care - resources
- Epilepsy - resources
- Family troubles - resources
- Gastrointestinal disorders - resources
- Hearing impairment - resources
- Hearing or speech impairment - resources
- Heart disease - resources
- Hemophilia - resources
- Herpes - resources
- Incest - resources
- Incontinence - resources
- Infertility - resources
- Interstitial cystitis - resources
- Kidney disease - resources
- Leukemia - resources
- Liver disease - resources
- Loss of a child - resources
- Loss of a spouse - resources
- Lung disease - resources
- Lupus - resources
- Migraine - resources
- Multiple sclerosis - resources
- Muscular dystrophy - resources
- Myasthenia gravis - resources
- Ostomy - resources
- Overeating - resources
- Pain - resources
- Parkinson's disease - resources
- Prostate cancer - resources
- Psoriasis - resources
- Rape - resources
- Reye's syndrome - resources
- Scleroderma - resources
- Scoliosis - resources
- Selective mutism - resources
- Sickle cell anemia - resources
- SIDS - resources
- SLE - resources
- Speech impairment - resources
- Spina bifida - resources
- Spinal injury - resources
- Tay-Sachs - resources
- Troubled families - resources
- Victim assistance - resources