[tipper1492]

I have looked everywhere, in phone book, on the internet, for one near my home (60 miles) but I have not found any group of bipolar people who get together to meet. Meetings could be two times or one time per month. The group meetings would be free. I have and do take my meds as my doctor tells me to do, and they keep me going just right. I do not care to spend more money on a live group, but I have not even found a group that charges a reasonable fee. I live down south, in north Louisiana. Do any of you people attend such a group. I would think spending time with such people would be nice. I am 63 and only 1 1/2 year ago found out I had BP. I never have spent much time with people and only married at the age of 36. I also gave up all alcohol, smoking, or anything that might mess up my medication results:confused

[sarahblue]

Have you tried NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) or DBSA (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance) websites? Both of those organization offer free support groups.

You can try to find a local NAMI group here: NAMI | NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group

DBSA here: Find a support Group - Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

I attended a local DBSA group for a while, but there were more caregivers than people with depression or bipolar. They started another local group more for people with depression and bipolar, but I haven't gone.

There is also a Drop-in Center near me. It's also a free, non-profit. I am not sure how you'd go about finding one near you.

Hope this helps.

You know with the bad things that have happened with some bipolar individuals when off their meds being plastered on the news, I get the feeling they would love to just sweep us under the rug or go back to old days of psychiatric prisons of yesteryear.

I'm in a small community of about 38,000 citizens, the clinic needs but doesn't have 3 bp's to have a group session just for bipolar. My take is there are probably a lot more people around in denial and undiagosed, still self medicating, or both.