Group for Persons with PCOS, Online Support Group in India. Sign up on TheMindClan.com

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What Is Group for Persons with PCOS About?
A weekly group therapy which is a space that invites focus on understanding one’s experience of PCOS, the ways in which it impacts various aspects of life, find connection with others with similar or different experiences and make meaning collectively in a safe space.
The hope is that we meet week after week to peel back layers of experience, give and receive support for things that come up within the space, whether PCOS related or not.
What is your founding story?
PCOS impacts one in every three women in India and yet it’s lived experiences find neither space nor acknowledgement. PCOS is more than just a medical occurrence, it deeply impacts the ways in which others and ourselves experience and view us. It shapes our appearance, the ways in which we relate to our bodies, it’s connections to the ideas of motherhood and ‘womanhood’, our experience of pain and physical suffering, and how we view ourselves in relational spaces with romantic/sexual partners, workspaces or social gatherings. In what can be a difficult experience, it is important to find connection, support and expression.
This is how the idea of the group came into being.
When was your support group founded? How has the journey been since then?
2022
Who is your support group for?
People with Experience of PCOS
Explain your group's approach towards helping a person's mental health care.
Group therapy is an experience of exploring ourselves in the setting of having others as both: witnesses and contributors to our journeys. It is a commitment not just to the process of therapy but also to the members of the group and what is being collectively experienced, alongside your individual experience. This can be powerful in lending a feeling of belonging, and in helping one find their separateness in that too. The presence of as many perspectives as there are group members, makes therapy richer as everyone participates in various capacities with every members’ experiences to help and gain clarity into one’s own concerns. It can address interpersonal concerns much more directly through interaction with other group members.
What is your group's approach towards professional mental health care interventions?
Individual support may be recommended alongside group therapy.
What conversations is your support group not equipped to support?
Self-harm and suicide
How does one sign up? What’s the coordination process like?
Drop us a line on our email address, after filling up our Google form.
Walk us through the average format of your group session.
90 minutes group
What are your home rules/values?
To maintain the boundaries of the group and the confidential safe space that it protects, it is best to avoid forming close relationships with group members outside of the space such that group matters may be discussed.
What do you hope for participants in your group to take back with them after a session?
An exploration of your own experiences with others as both contributors and witnesses.

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