Sunday, March 14, 2010

Welcome to Up and Down Time!

The newly-established Rocky Mountain DBSA is pleased to initiate this blog, which will be a forum for mental health issues in general and mood disorders in particular. We started in Colorado Springs in 2009, and are dedicated to growing peer-led self-help groups such as DBSA (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance) throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region.

4 comments:

  1. Charles Sakai is an excellent facilitator of support groups, knowledgeable and understanding and calm. He was the best thing about DBSA when I used them. Bob Campbell

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  2. Bob, thank you for your kind remarks. We plan on adding to this blog frequently to keep our readers informed about mental health issues as well as the Colorado DBSA.

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  3. I received information once on starting a group in Utah, but I'm not on sturdy enough footing myself to be able to help start something, or I would.

    I think there needs to be alternatives to NAMI, and if I knew how to get support in helping to start a group around here and not just be on my own in doing it, I'd have a much better shot at it. But I'm too overwhelmed as it is with things going on with me right now, important though the issue is.

    Sara

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  4. Utah has only lately started to join the DBSA bandwagon. Are these chapters anywhere near your hometown?

    ayton
    DBSA Davis/Weber
    Contact 1: Robert Hall
    Phone: (801) 628-4881
    Contact 2: Mike Blouck
    Additional Phone: (801) 309-8837
    Fax: (801) 728-9455
    Email: roberthall59@comcast.net

    Riverton
    DBSA Riverton
    Contact 1: Aaron Garner
    Phone: (801) 413-9967
    Contact 2: Stephanie Mathie
    Additional Phone: (801) 413-9967
    Email: dbsa-riverton@comcast.net

    Salt Lake City
    DBSA Salt Lake
    Contact 1: Aaron Garner
    Phone: (801) 413-9967
    Email: dbsa-saltlake@comcast.net

    I'll pass the word of your interest to the president of DBSA Colorado. Our area of interest is the Rocky Mountain region, not just Colorado.

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