This Thursday, May 31st, 6:30 pm!
Meetings
Every Thursday Evening
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The Hub
2nd Floor, 1673 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is open to anyone affected by any type of mental illness, and this includes family members and friends.
Free!
The From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is open to anyone affected by any type of mental illness, and this includes family members and friends.
Free!
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Experiences with Depression across Diagnoses: Coping, Moving Forward, and Recovery
As an accompaniment to the Halifax DefeatDepression Walk to be held on Sunday, May 27th, join co-facilitators Lisa Corra and Vince Daigle for a peer support group discussion on experiences with depression across diagnoses.
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Organized through a partnership between the Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia and the Healthy Minds Cooperative, the From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is special because it moves beyond the expectation of simply existing with minimal symptoms of mental illness. Our message is that we all have the opportunity to manifest our strengths, to recover a sense of empowerment, and to live with meaning and purpose. Through the mutual sharing of our own wisdom and experience, we are reminded to reach for hope and fulfillment in our lives, and to help one another realize our potential.
The From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is open to anyone affected by any type of mental illness, and this includes family members and friends. The format generally involves an interactive presentation on topics of interest to the group in the first hour, and a group discussion during the second hour.
To download the From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group's meeting flyer (PDF), please click here.
If you have any questions, or would like more information, please contact:
Lisa Corra, Peer Support Facilitator, Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia, by phoning 465-2601 (toll free 1-800-465-2601) or sending an email to ssns2@ns.sympatico.ca; or
Vince Daigle, Peer Support Worker, Healthy Minds Cooperative, by phoning 404-3504, or sending an email to healthyminds@eastlink.ca.
6 comments:
Sounds like a powerful group. I will start a new NAMI group this month too. I just wanted to stop by to say hello and to wish your team a Happy New Year!
I am in the mental health field and just happened to stumble upon this blog. Great job!!
I am verY impressed with this new blog/website.It is very informative, attracitve and appealing. We must work towards ending the stigma re. mental illness to recognise that each person is unique. We must turn "suffering" to "celebration" as we learn to take control and actively self-manage our lives. I look forward to our weekly meetings. Heather
I've been to a few meetings, and have found the group discussion interesting and helpful. I'm glad to hear more people are coming, and will be there this Thursday.
It'd been mentioned to me to read up on the article about self-stigma on the site, and having read that in itself well I found it went along with much of what I've been thinking about of late.
Changing how I feel many look at me starts with changing how I look at myself, and it's funny, many people are good I meet in group therapy and tell me I have insight
and all, but it's good to know not only you have an illness, but part of the illness is self perception, and what you chose to do with yourself.
I just wanted to leave a thanks for you guys for steering me in the right direction and I look forward to Thursday's meeting.
It is absolutely shameful how Mr. Hyde was treated that lead to his death. As a person with schizophrenia we need to face this problem and act in a pluralistic societal manner to frame and bridge asocial movement of change and inclusion of our exceptional group of persons and symptoms. We are not diseases and we should not be treated like one, would you cattle prode a developmentallly delayed child? No. So why are persons with SZ or Bp or other mental exceptionalities being tasered and manhandled to the extreme that causes death. The Hyde inquiry report is a beginning to this movement and the momentum needs to be tended and continued for us to ever move away from this present societal circumstance.
I think Peer support is the way to go. I just wish there was some in my community.
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