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Self Help Groups

Self Help groups

Self-help groups bring people together who share a common life experience for support, education, and mutual aid.

Benefits of participating in a self-help group include:

  • Learning new information and strategies for confronting problems
  • Finding support from others
  • The opportunity to help others
  • Feeling empowered and more self-confident in coping with challenges.

Members of self-help groups share a belief that positive personal change happens through individual efforts with the support of others.

The Society recognizes the valuable role self-help groups play in addressing the informational, emotional, and social support needs of people living with MS. There are over 1400 National MS Society-affiliated groups in existence today.

 Online Groups

  • Mothers with MS
    Get support in the comfort of your own home from other Mom’s with MS
  • ActiveMSers
    designed to help, motivate, and inspire those with multiple sclerosis to stay as active as possible—physically, intellectually, and socially—regardless of physical limitations.

Teleconference Groups

Multiple Sclerosis and Cancer 

3 p.m. CST
4th Wednesdays

1-866-906-9995
(enter code 1073 when prompted)

Cafe con Leche: Conversation and Support for People Living with MS

Monthly telephone group in Spanish. 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. CST
Tuesdays
 

To register, call
1-800-344-4867
(press 3)
Flyer in English
Flyer in Spanish
Stay at Home
Support for People Living with MS for Five Years or More

11:00 a.m. CST
3rd Wednesdays

1-888-279-3775
(enter code 33122 when prompted)

In-person Groups 

Young at Heart group
If you are young at heart , somewhere between your late teens and early 40’s and would like to share your experiences with others who are young and living with MS, the New Mexico Office is happy to announce Young at Heart with MS. We hope this group will grow into am informal support network that will offer job coaching, social events, support for couples and spouses, exercise and fun. To get involved, join the Young at Heart Facebook Group. Send an email to nmx@nmss.org  for more information.

Active MSer's  http://www.activemsers.org

myMS myWay http://www.mymsmyway.com

Caregiver Groups

  • Empowered Caregiver Network:
    http://www.empoweredcaregiver.com/
    They have a telephone-based Support Group on the 4th Sunday of each month at 3:00pm CST
  • Caregiver Support Group
    Sponsored by Friends In Time Professionally facilitated
    Third Wednesday monthly, 6:30 - 8:30 pm at 4906-B Jefferson NE
    Albuquerque NM 87109
    Contact Michael Gray at (505) 872-9301