Support Newsgroups on the Internet

alt.abuse.recovery - Recovering from all types of abuse
alt.abuse.offender.recovery - Recovery for abuse offenders/perpetrators
alt.abuse.transcendence - Alternate models of dealing with abuse
alt.psychology.help - General help with psychological problems
alt.psychology.adlerian - Works and theories of Alfred Adler
alt.psychology.jung - Works and theories of Carl Jung
alt.psychology.mistake-theory - Research and discussion about mistakes
alt.psychology.nlp - Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
alt.psychology.personality - Personality taxonomies/assessment/models
alt.psychology.transpersonal - Transpersonal psychology
alt.recovery - General topics in recovery
alt.recovery.aa - Recovery and Alcoholics Anonymous
alt.recovery.na - Recovery and Narcotics Anonymous
alt.recovery.addiction.sexual - Recovering from sexual addictions
alt.recovery.adult-children - Adults from dysfunctional families
alt.recovery.codependency - Codependency
alt.recovery.religion - Recovering from the effects of religion
alt.recovery.catholicism - Recovery from Catholicism in specific
alt.recovery.compulsive-eat - Compulsive eating & food addiction
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery - Recovering from sexual abuse
alt.abuse-recovery - Moderated version:alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
alt.support.abuse-partners - Partners of sexual abuse survivors
alt.support.anxiety-panic - Anxiety and panic disorders
alt.support.arthritis - Arthritis
alt.support.asthma - Asthma
alt.support.ataxia - Ataxia
alt.support.attn-deficit - Attention-deficit disorders
alt.support.breast-implant - People who've had breast implants
alt.support.breastfeeding - Breast feeding
alt.support.big-folks - Fat-acceptance with no dieting talk
soc.support.fat-acceptance - Self-acceptance for fat people/no diet talk
alt.support.cancer - Cancer
alt.support.cancer.prostate - Prostate cancer
alt.support.cerebral-palsy - Cerebral palsy
alt.support.crohns-colitis - Crohn's/ulcerative colitis/irritable bowel
alt.support.depression - Depression & mood disorders
alt.support.depression.manic - Manic depression & bipolar disorders
alt.support.depression.seasonal - Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
soc.support.depression.crisis - Personal crisis situations
soc.support.depression.family - Coping with depressed people
soc.support.depression.manic - Bipolar/manic depression
soc.support.depression.misc - Depression and mood disorders
soc.support.depression.seasonal - Seasonal affective disorder
soc.support.depression.treatment - Treatments of depression
alt.support.dev-delays - Developmental delay
alt.support.diabetes.kids - Parents & family of children with diabetes
alt.support.diet - Dieting/losing weight/nutrition
alt.support.disabled.sexuality - Sexual issues of disabled & their partners
alt.support.dissociation - Persons w/ dissociative disorders (eg.-MPD)
alt.support.divorce - Divorce/marital breakups
alt.support.dwarfism - Dwarfism (Moderated)
alt.support.dystonia - Dystonia (abnormal muscle contractions)
alt.support.eating-disord - Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, etc.)
alt.support.epilepsy - Epilepsy
alt.support.foster-parents - Foster parents
alt.support.ex-cult - Former cult members & family & friends
alt.support.grief - Issues of grief and loss
alt.support.headaches.migraine - Disorders of migraine and headache ailments
alt.support.hemophilia - Hemophilia
alt.support.kidney-failure - Kidney failure
alt.support.learning-disab - Learning disabilities (eg.-dyslexia, etc.)
alt.support.lonelliness - Loneliness
alt.support.marfan - Marfan syndrome
alt.support.menopause - Menopause
alt.support.mult-sclerosis - Multiple sclerosis
alt.support.musc-dystrophy - Muscular dystrophy
alt.support.non-smokers - Effects of second-hand smoke
alt.support.non-smokers.moderated - Like above, but moderated
alt.support.obesity - Obesity (moderated)
alt.support.ocd - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
alt.support.osteogensis.imperfecta - Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone)
alt.support.ostomy - For people with ostomies (surgical proc.)
alt.support.personality - For people with personality disorders
alt.support.post-polio - Post polio syndrome
alt.support.prostate.prostatitis - Individuals with prostatitis
alt.support.schizophrenia - Schizophrenia
alt.support.short - Issues of interest to short people
alt.support.single-person - Single parenting solutions and support
alt.support.sinusitis - Inflammation of the sinuses
alt.support.shyness - Shyness
alt.support.skin-diseases - Skin diseases in general
alt.support.skin-diseases.psoriasis - Psoriasis
alt.support.sleep-disorder - Sleep disorders & problems sleeping
alt.support.spina-bifida - Spina-bifida
alt.support.step-parents - Help being a step-parent
alt.support.stop-smoking - Stopping or quitting smoking
alt.support.stuttering - Stuttering & other speaking difficulties
alt.support.survivors.prozac - Survivors of Prozac & other SSRIs
alt.support.tall - Issues of interest to tall people
alt.support.telecommute - Telecommuting
alt.support.tinnitus - Tinnitus/ringing ears/other head noises
alt.support.tourette - Tourette's syndrome
soc.support.transgendered - Transgendered & intersexed persons
alt.transgendered - Transgendered & intersexed persons
alt.support.turner-syndrom - Turner Syndrome
soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi - Gay youths helping each other (moderated)
alt.support - All other support topics & questions
alt.adoption - For all interested or involved with adoption
alt.adoption.agency - Adoption info/parenting issues
alt.angst - Angst
alt.dads-rights - Support and information for single fathers (moderated)
alt.hypnosis - Hypnosis discussionalt.infertility - Causes & treatment of infertility
alt.parenting.solutions - Help in parentingalt.self-improve - Self-improvement tips & techniques
alt.sigma2.height - People far from average height
alt.society.mental-health - Mental health issues & malpractice
alt.suicide.holiday - General discussion of suicide & techniques
alt.med.allergy - Causes & treatment of allergies
alt.med.behavioral - Behavioral medicine
alt.med.cfs - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) (moderated)
alt.med.fibromyalgia - Fibromyalgia fibrosis
misc.health.aids - General discussion of AIDS & HIV
misc.health.arthritis - Arthritis
misc.health.diabetes - Diabetes, hypoglycemia (hypoglycaemia)
misc.kids.health - Children's health issues
misc.kids.pregnancy - Pregnancy & childbirth issues
sci.cognitive - Perception, memory, judgment & reasoning
sci.med - Medicine & related products & regulations
sci.med.aids - Medical discussion of AIDS & HIV (moderated)
sci.med.dentistry - Dentistry
sci.med.diseases.cancer - Medical discussion of cancer
sci.med.immunology - Immunology
sci.med.nursing - Nursing
sci.med.nutrition - Nutrition & diet
sci.med.occupational - Occupational medicine
sci.med.pharmacy - Pharmacy
sci.med.psychobiology - Dialog & news in psychiatry & psychobiology
sci.med.vision - Human vision, visual correction & science
sci.psychology.announce - Announcement of psychology conferences, etc (moderated)
sci.psychology.consciousness - On the nature of consciousness (moderated)
sci.psychology.journals.psyche - E-journal on consciousness (Psyche) (moderated)
sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy - E-journal on psychology (Psycoloquy) (moderated)
sci.psychology.misc - General discussion of psychology
sci.psychology.personality - All personality systems & measurement
sci.psychology.psychotherapy - Practice of psychotherapy
sci.psychology.research - Research issues in psychology (moderated)
sci.psychology.theory - Theories of psychology & behavior

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Last-Modified: 11/15/1995
Version: 1.97
Psychology & By: John M. Grohol, Support Groups Newsgroup Pointer This Pointer will help you find the information you need and get your questions answered much quicker than if you were to simply crosspost to every psychology or support newsgroup in existence. It is provided as a public service. Post your article in the most appropriate newsgroup according to its topic. It is organized around topic areas, in alaphabetical order.

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