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CFS, EI, FM Email Support
Group - SF Bay/Adjacent
San Francisco CFIDS Support Group
San Francisco FM Self-Help Support Group
San
Francisco CFIDS Support Group
For
people with CFS/ME and FM. There are no meetings at present. If you can
volunteer to help organize or facilitate meetings, or can help with phone
support, please contact Erica
Freeman.
Contact
Erica
Freeman
Website
San
Francisco Fibromyalgia Self-Help Support Group
For
people with FM and/or CMP - or those who think they may have one of these
disorders. Friends and family are also welcome. The group is more of an
empowerment group as it will focus on what people with FM can do to improve
their health and functionality. While emotional support will be the main
component, education and political advocacy will go hand-in-hand. Our
medical treatment options may be limited, but what we can do about it
is not.
Meetings
Effective October 4, 2003, meetings will be the first Saturday of each
month (except December), from 2-4 PM, at the California Pacific Medical
Center, Davies Campus at Castro St. and Duboce St., Rm. B2/3 [map]
Contacts
Sharon
Park
Noah 415-383-5930
Comments
This group, loosely modeled on Bruce Campbell, PhD's CFIDS
& FM Self-Help Program, may be more structured than other support
groups. In our experience, people come into these groups from rather chaotic
lives. Doctors invalidate their illnesses, family members don't believe
they're ill, friends don't understand, and they struggle to get disability.
It's important that the group provide safety and stability. There will
be the standard rules: no criticism, no giving unwanted feedback, no interrupting,
one person talks at a time, respect confidentiality, etc.
If you are interested
and able to help with publicity (i.e., call, email, write to any groups,
agencies, and organizations; ask them to post an announcement about the
group in their newsletter, mailing list, website, etc.), collect literature
and make it available at meetings; co-facilitate meetings; handle phone/email
inquiries about the group; create a website for the group; etc., please
email Sharon Park.
More information on
our group may be found through our email list at groups.yahoo.com/group/SFFSSG.
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