Panic and Depression Group Meetings

The Panic and Depression Group at Resilient Solutions, in Bountiful, has gone on hiatus for the summer.

I'm not sure how this summer will go without my weekly meetings with women that understand what I am going through and feeling, and can help me look at things in different ways.  It's kind of lonely without the support I get at the meetings.

It is so very easy to feel like you are the only one who has every gone through these types of issues, and to go through the loneliness and thoughts that no one else ever has gone through what you have.  Then to have met such wonderful women, that can help me see that I am not alone in all of this is beyond words.  The love I feel for each and every one of them and for the help that they have given me is tremendous.

The feeling of hope that comes over me through these meetings, that maybe, someday I won't have to deal with these things.  That there is a life out there and this isn't it!

And then to go without for a few weeks or months, I get so excited when they announce they are starting the meetings up again.

Of course I cannot talk about these wonderful meetings without mentioning the wonderful people who lead the group.  The therapist who always seems to so very happy, and willing to join in some of our exercises.  And the co-leader who is willing to share her time, experiences and research of when she was going through what we are now going through.  I don't think the group would be half as effective without their support and caring. 

My hope is that throughout the summer I can keep the spirit of the group within my heart and not allow myself to fall behind.