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support group
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support group
n.
A group of people, sometimes led by a therapist, who provide each other moral support, information, and advice on problems relating to some shared characteristic or experience: a support group for cancer survivors.
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Byline: ANI Nainital (Uttarakhand), Nov 17(ANI): Women belonging to a self-help group in Nainital are learning the craft of making toys out of unpolished stones and in the process making a decent livelihood.
One of the three, Dilys Myfanwy, said: "We found talking to each other helped us and we felt a self-help group of fellow diabetics would be useful in breaking the loneliness of suffering on one's own and feeling isolated.
Founding member and current chairman Ken Stokes said: "We started life as a self-help group and we still continue on a voluntary basis.
 
 
 
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