I've never been in group therapy so am not sure of all the similarities to PC discussions. There are certainly different personalities here and I like following people's stories from week to week. I am interested in them. (Did you once say, sidony, that you weren't really interested in the people in your group or what they have to say? --not sure I'm remembering correctly.) One of my worst "group" experiences was a monthlong stint on jury duty. Some of the people on my jury were so annoying and hard to deal with. It was torture to have to see them each day and work with them to form a consensus. Bad memories! I hope your group is not like that, sidony.

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I hate that you can't contact someone off to the side and figure out how they feel about everything. That'd be cheating in real group.

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It seems like it would more closely mirror real life too if you could have smaller, side conversations.

Have you seen the group therapy video at the website below? I saw this link posted in another forum here on PC. It has vids of actors playing patients with various psychiatric disorders. The group therapy vid has this poor, hapless therapist running a group in which each member has a different personality disorder. Poor guy! He's so ineffectual with this bunch, it's kind of funny.
http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/aap/Video/video_page.htm
(Scroll down to where it says "A Theoretical Group comprised of all 11 Personality Disorders.")