This group that I'm trying first is a DBSA group. It is at a hospital with an IP unit and seems to be facilitated by a psych nurse. I'm not sure how I feel about that just because the worst groups I've been to in the hospital have been run by nurses. But honestly that was really ONE nurse and she was not a good nurse so her inability to run groups well wasn't surprising. So obviously this one can't be judged by that experience. I don't know anything beyond that and that it is a DBSA group. My guess is that since it is at the hospital that it is probably going to be at least some people who have been hospitalized/pretty sick recently and that's actually where I fit. I did NAMI's peer to peer a few years ago when I'd just gotten out of the hospital and was in very bad shape and was one of the least able to function people in the class and that was always weird so hopefully this will feel more natural.

For now I'm nervous.