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This group is dedicated to those who suffer from a trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), those at risk for PTSD, and those who care for traumatized individuals. "It is difficult to convey to the average non-traumatized person how frightening, disorienting, and upsetting it is to experience intrusive flashbacks to horrors of the past. For one who is suffering or who has suffered from PTSD there are times when the only thing that can help ease the tension of the day is an understanding fr …
This is a safe place for adults or children to talk, share or meet up with other Traumatic Brain Injury victims. Find friends, share experiences, have lunch, catch a movie...with people that understand you. Family, spouses, friends, caretakers all welcome to participate with you.
This is a peer to peer support group for survivors of child-hood abuse. My goal is to help others reach a point were they can live with what has happened to them. I understand that recovery is an individual thing but I believe we can recover better with the support and understanding of each other. I'm accepting all genders and backgrounds into this group. I believe that abuse results in similar reactions and similar needs for help in all of us. I will also try to help other trauma victims a …
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Hello! Everyone, My name is Diana and I am a survivor of sexual abuse and assualt. I live in the Chicagoland area and I work in the social work field and I have found that there is little support for those who have been through what I have been through and I want to change that. This group will be peer lead and will consist of an advocacy component. The reason why I want to start the Chicago Women Support and Advocacy Meetup Group for Survivors of Sexual Assualt and Abuse is because I would like …
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