Support Groups Quotes

• In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Support, Typical, Groups

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• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some people in it live twice as long as other people who are not in a support group. I asked David what went on in those groups and he said that people just cared about each other. Nothing big, no deep psychological stuff-people just cared about each other. The reality is that healing happens between people.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Reality, Long

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• I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.

  April Rose

  Talking, Support, Important

  "April Rose: On healthy relationships, good support groups, and the right way for women to exercise". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

  Loretta Sanchez

  Race, People, Support

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• Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.

  Brenda Jones

  Giving Up, Cancer, Yoga

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• I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

  Camille Grammer

  True Friend, Real, Moving

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• To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

  Leo Durocher

  Drinking, Beer, Support

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• I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

  Maria Bamford

  Talking, People, Support

  "Interview: Maria Bamford and Andy Kindler". Interview with Jane Borden, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2009.

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• I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

  Etgar Keret

  Lonely, Writing, Class

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• I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Opposites

  "Geek gek, n (slang ) A misfit, a rebel, sometimes a troublemaker. 'While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius' (Apple Computer advertising campaign, 1997) Top 50 Geeks 1-25 (Part 1 of 2)". www.heraldscotland.com. July 16, 2005.

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• Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Taken, Feet, Support

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• My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Moving, Past, Talking

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

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• Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Real, Character, Support

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

  Florence King

  Depression, Growing Up, Home

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.65, Macmillan

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• When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

  Jeff Sessions

  Real, Support, Effort

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When someone's really sick and their family is tired and concerned about what will take place, those are the times that they need a support group around them to take care of them as a human being.

  Rodney Yee

  Tired, Sick, Support

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Song, Two, Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

  Alan Hirsch

  Cancer, Support, Community

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.117, Baker Books

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• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.

  J. Robbins

  Jobs, House, Support

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

  John Green

  Mom, Teenager, Fake

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.214, Penguin

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• When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mean, Voice, Differences

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.9, Delacorte Press

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• I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Envy, Support, Each Day

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