What is the difference between Depression Recovery Groups and a depression chat room or forum?
Depression Recovery Groups offers regularly scheduled, live web meetings where people come together with the help of a professional facilitator to discuss how they are doing and to help each other. It a combination of a conference call and a web meeting. Everyone can hear each other and they can interact with each other using their computers. They can type and draw on the screen and everyone can see everyone else’s input. Chat rooms are places where people can only type to each other or to a group. They usually don’t have a facilitator. Forums don’t happen in real time. People write notes to a group and others may or may not respond and it may take hours or days before a response is posted.
