Thanks everyone, grizmom, there are mental health groups here. They are sessional type things though, with particular mental illness related subjects. Some of them are really poorly run so I have steered away from them to the ones where the people running them are caring and professional. They come up every month or so and I go to those.

I am (hopefully) moving to a larger town this year and they have GROW, which is a 12 Step based mental health group. I will definitely give that a go, as it I'm a longtime sober AA member so the 12 Step approach works for me, and I get a sense that they go more social/fun sort of stuff too, which I would be keen to participate in - not just relentless courses and session about the seriousness of mental illness. Who knows I might learn 10 pin bowling!! lol