The self-help groups work to gather people with the same kind of problem so that they can exchange their life experiences.

At the same time, the groups allow people to get out of the isolation they tend to put themselves in.

In a self-help group you will find people who not only want to listen to you but are your equals. The experiences they have lived might be the same as yours. Someone else-s history may be yours. The story of someone who was walking on the street and could not find a bathroom when it was urgent or of another one who at 2 am was still working because could not go to sleep as a side effect of Prednisone.