Resources
For information, resources, and support on specific diseases and conditions, see the links below. Additional 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
Alternative Names
Support groups - by disease and condition
Update Date: 11/2/2010
Updated by: Jennifer K. Mannheim, ARNP, Medical Staff, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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