When challenges loom, support groups can provide a lifeline
You’ve met someone who can relate to you on a level no one else can. Because just like you, she always clicks her tongue when she’s bored, or she doesn’t know how to read lips, or she’s extraordinarily bothered by water on her hands. Maybe she cries when she sees a sunset, or she feels like she can never cry.
Finally, someone gets you.
That’s the comfort — multiplied many times over — that people feel when they join a support group.
Miriam was married for six years when she met Minky Rechnitzer, CMFT. Miriam had always been an accomplished individual and a pillar of chesed among her friends; she wasn’t seeking any kind of support. Minky told her about the new support group she was launching for women with ADHD. The idea interested Miriam, as her sister had been diagnosed with the condition when she was a teenager.
“When Minky described some of the challenges facing adult women with ADHD, it sounded all too familiar. Something wasn’t sitting right with me, and I had to know more. The more I spoke with Minky, the more I realized I was struggling with the same feelings and issues she wanted to help women cope with. But I couldn’t have ADHD — I was nothing like my sister. Or could I?”
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