Resources
Alternative Names
Support groups - by disease and condition
Information
Local and national support groups can be found on the web, through local libraries, your health care provider, and the yellow pages under "social service organizations."
- AIDS - resources
- Alcoholism - resources
- Allergy - resources
- ALS - resources
- Alzheimer's - resources
- Anorexia nervosa - resources
- Arthritis - resources
- Asthma and allergy - resources
- Autism - resources
- Blindness - resources
- BPH - resources
- Breastfeeding - resources
- Bulimia - resources
- Burns - resources
- Cancer - resources
- Cerebral palsy - resources
- Celiac disease - resources
- Child abuse - resources
- Chronic fatigue syndrome - resources
- Chronic pain - resources
- Cleft palate - resources
- Colon cancer - resources
- Cystic fibrosis - resources
- Depression - resources
- Diabetes - resources
- Digestive disease - resources
- Drug abuse - resources
- Eating disorders - resources
- Elder care - resources
- Epilepsy - resources
- Family troubles - resources
- Gastrointestinal disorders - resources
- Hearing impairment - resources
- Hearing or speech impairment - resources
- Heart disease - resources
- Hemophilia - resources
- Herpes - resources
- Incest - resources
- Incontinence - resources
- Infertility - resources
- Interstitial cystitis - resources
- Kidney disease - resources
- Leukemia - resources
- Liver disease - resources
- Loss of a child - resources
- Loss of a spouse - resources
- Lung disease - resources
- Lupus - resources
- Migraine - resources
- Multiple sclerosis - resources
- Muscular dystrophy - resources
- Myasthenia gravis - resources
- Ostomy - resources
- Overeating - resources
- Pain - resources
- Parkinson's disease - resources
- Prostate cancer - resources
- Psoriasis - resources
- Rape - resources
- Reye's syndrome - resources
- Scleroderma - resources
- Scoliosis - resources
- Selective mutism - resources
- Sickle cell anemia - resources
- SIDS - resources
- SLE - resources
- Speech impairment - resources
- Spina bifida - resources
- Spinal injury - resources
- Tay-Sachs - resources
- Troubled families - resources
- Victim assistance - resources
Review Date:
10/20/2022
Reviewed By: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David C. Dugdale, MD, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
Reviewed By: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David C. Dugdale, MD, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
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