These groups are wonderful...I (or my family) have ben involved in them for everything you can imagine. I am currently "online" for several Chesapeake Bay retriever ones, and several gastric bypass (and I have lost almost 175 pounds so far now)ones. I attend 2 gastric bypass ones now, and have attended ones in the past for cancer caregivers, Alzheimer's caregivers, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), bereavement, you name it and I have attended them.

I don't think it's so much misery loves company as it is that you need to know what is happening to you is "normal", or you need to know what is coming in the future so you can be semi-prepared. I know we went for individual and couples therapy and attended support groups, and were the better for it, no matter what the issue was.