Has anyone ever joined their local Recovery College or a Recovery Partners group?

[Sleepless123]

Hi

It has been suggested by my Psychiatrist that I join the local mental health Recovery College and do some activities with them. Apparently most of the activities are currently online. The Psychiatrist also said she is going to refer me to the local Recovery Partners group. Apparently the Recovery Partners Group is a way to give and receive peer support and the group also provide feedback to mental health services.

Has anyone ever joined a local mental health Recovery College or been part of a Recovery Partners group? If so how did you find it? Did you find it useful?

Many thanks for any assistance.

[yoyogirl]

I have never been to a recovery college, I have done lots of peer support and social clubs, however these didn't work out in my local area and I wasn't prepared to go to my local adult community college if I hated the place previously when i went for guitar lessons, gcse law class and other expensive but not worth the money pleasure courses, meeting the same people from previous courses and groups. Hardly interesting, pass me the remote for endless flog it bargain hunt. Plus at the time, my mental health wasn't great and i found everything rather tiring and my motivation to turn up suffered.