The Avoidant Group was a success!
There was around 121 people at the group. What I didn't have was people interacting. I need people to come into chat, or even call in if you wish. I want to hear about your struggles and how you are coping with being an Avoidant.
What I also need is your ideas, suggestions, things you want to talk about, and such. Anything you have to say, I want to hear it.
If you have anything like this, please email them to me.
I am hoping to also get a professional to join us, but Im not sure if this is going to be possible. Most professionals may not want to join a group that is led by a non-professional.
So I will probably just end up looking for someone that wants to come and host the group with me. They either need to be a professional, or an Avoidant like me. They don't have to be recovered, or even recovering. If you are interested in applying for this, please email me and tell me why you think you would like to do this.
The focus of the group is that I am not a professional, but someone that is an Avoidant. The downside of professionals is that they learned about Avoidants from a book. I have lived it, and continue to live it.
I dont think its really possible for someone that is not an Avoidant to really understand what its like to BE AN AVOIDANT.
Of course, professionals do offer some advantages that I cannot. They often know statistics and such that I dont. They can tell you about some ways to deal with things that maybe I dont. And in some cases, even prescribe meds that I cannot.
Though I strongly recommend against meds unless you have experience with them or can be really really careful. Meds have a place and can be useful, but often meds that are prescribed to deal with depression and Avoidant type issues are worse have very very bad drawbacks.
For example, most anti-depression meds can actually cause deeper depression and suicide. Why these meds are prescribed is beyond me.
Many can cause you to have suicidal thoughts. Why would anyone want to take these seems just plain nuts to me!!
I dont have a format in mind for the group. I am completely open to however God would want to run this. We can just sit around and talk. That is perfectly fine.
I mainly just want to provide a place where Avoidants, and those like us, can go to. A place where everyone knows your name. Like in the old show Cheers.
Mark your calendars!
The next meeting for Avoidants will be November 13th at 7pm MT.
After this, I will be doing this every week, same bat time, same bat channel.
See ya all then!!!
And remember if you have any suggestions, ideas, or thought on how you want this to run, please let me know.
This is my log of my issues with living to Avoidant Personality Disorder. My hope is that in writing this, it will help myself and perhaps others that are also struggling with this disorder and others like it. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tyKSgW-IeaK851gvIjjthije0kOwg3tZxVqKXSC1xXg/viewform I am trying to get more information on this disorder so that we can find commonalities. Perhaps if we can learn more about this, we can figure out how to combat it and get better lives for us all.
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