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Group therapy where the therapist is everyone else's trauma.
means A regular gathering of people who share a particular struggle, meeting to trade coping strategies, listen, and remind each other they're not alone in it.
from A plain compound: 'support,' from Latin supportare, 'to carry, bring up, bring forward' (sub- 'up from below' + portare 'to carry'), and 'group,' borrowed from French groupe, originally an art term for figures arranged together in a painting or sculpture. The phrase itself is a 20th-century coinage, rising alongside the modern self-help and recovery movements — Alcoholics Anonymous and similar circles popularized the format before the term settled into everyday use for any room of folding chairs and shared suffering.
- origin
- AA pioneered the model in 1935
- magic ingredient
- someone else saying your exact thought first
- paradox
- strangers heal you faster than friends sometimes
- rule one
- nobody's allowed to fix you, just listen