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Hauser

Hauser

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I live next to a city of at LEAST 250,000 people including the outlying areas and there is not a support group for male survivors of sexual abuse that I'm aware of. I will tell you guys when I've exausted my leads, but so far the results have not been promising.

The reason for my post is to express my dismay over what support groups for men that I HAVE found.

Support for Men who slap thier wives and kids around.
Support for Men with anger management issues.
Support for Men to enhance parenting skills.

Am I really this far down the ladder in my area?

Oh, if I may add one more topic to this post. I asked my T if and why not his other male clients (csa survivors) have not asked him to help find a local support group. He replied, "Frankly, they didn't WANT to find one".

So.........this got me thinking about all of you good people here. The fact that I (and many others) have reached out for help in this forum means more than we might otherwise think. The fact that we're willing to talk to others in a public forum like this liberates us in a great and certain way............it helps us to shed the confines of silence that have trapped us.

Maybe I should be the one to help start the very first support group in my area.
 
Don't give up. It takes awhile. The guys are out there, it's just so hard to find one another. When you do, it will have been worth the effort. It took us two years to get our group going. Three of us just kept meeting with the idea that, if we just kept trying, one day there would be more. Now there are six. We are no longer a trio....we are a group. Bobby
 
Wow Bobby! That is great. I live in a city with more than a million citizens. We have a baseball team, a NFL football team, several college teams, hundreds of churches, hundereds of social programs, support groups for female rape victims, but NOTHING for males. I have asked my T and he cannot find a support group in this area either. Surely I am not the only male out of at leat 500,000 that has been molested and abused.
 
Hauser,

Maybe I should be the one to help start the very first support group in my area.
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As I've had an opportunity to remark on more than one occasion, one of the things I love about you is your 'bull-by-the-horns' approach to things. Good luck, you'll need it, but if anyone can do it, I bet you can.

John
 
Hauser,

I just been poking around on Google, and found a link for something called the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence:

https://www.mcadsv.org/

It's very women-oriented, but as I've said before, I found my group being offered by a "women's" service, and I'll be eternally grateful that it was. There's a number or two in your county, as well as some in neighboring counties -- don't know if this will turn anything up, but if not it could at least help you (maybe) get one started.

John
 
Hauser - I stopped and thought about this for a while.

Yuo are probably right by thinking about trying to start a support group yourself!

Isn't that how this site started - someone had an idea, and here we all are!

Best wishes....Rik
 
Hauser,

I am starting a group here in Northern California. We are still in in the planning stage but there are 3 of us. We will be meeting again this week to put things together. Our target date for our first official meeting is in April.

I started a thread a while back where I asked for advice on starting a group. Some of the replies gave links to resources and others gave titles for books. You can vew this post at:

https://malesurvivor.org/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=006573

Hope this is helpful.

Darrel
 
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