Well it depends on the group in the end. When I was a kid I did 2 different group therapies after my mom died. One was more of an "arts and crafts and watch videos on grief." It was at the hospital and for kids who just lost a parent. So there were like 40 kids there of all different ages, and not really any sharing.

But at my school we had a grief group because about 7 of us had all lost people that year tragically. So, they made us into a group. That one was really good and we did a lot of sharing. But I didn't really share, not really.

The other group I went to was after having my middle son, the hospital pdoc wanted me to get into see a pdoc on the outside. But I was on medicade so I had to wait a month to be seen. In the mean time an intern put me into a "group" which was actually a court ordered group for anger managment. I went a few times. Those people were scary. One lady beat up another lady for taking her seat on the bus. One lady, (who looked like a sweet grandma,) had actually been physically abusing her disabled, bed ridden mother.... yeah... there were others but I can't remember now... Where me, I was just a total mess.

I stopped going when the group leader (who was extremely nice) realized I needed actual therapy and a pdoc. But then medicade stopped paying for me (they only paid one month after my son was born,) and that was the end. I never got in to see a pdoc....