Online Support Groups Near Durham and Chapel Hill
Whether you are in Durham, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Morrisville or anywhere in the Triangle, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join from your apartment or the lab. The universities and the research park bring in thousands of people on temporary contracts, far from their families, measured constantly, and surrounded by others too busy to notice how they are doing.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Eastern time, so they fit a day near Durham.
Upcoming Groups
MeganCPSP
Community and general support
Belladonna
Compassion, empathy and support with major life challenges.
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Member-led
People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
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Member-led
People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
Brilliant, overworked and far from home
A doctoral student or a postdoc here is often from another country or another coast, on a stipend that barely covers a Durham rent, working for an advisor whose approval decides the next five years. Lab mates are competitors as much as friends. The biotech and pharma jobs in Research Triangle Park add a layer of contract workers who could be gone when the project ends. Partners who moved here for someone else's career are in Carrboro looking for work and company. It is a place where everyone is impressive and almost nobody admits to struggling, and the imposter feeling can become a quiet, permanent companion.
How peer support helps near Durham
A peer group is an hour a week that does not go on your CV and has no evaluation at the end. You join from the apartment near campus or the office in RTP, and the people in the room understand pressure and distance from home without needing a literature review.
What members near Durham talk about
- Imposter feelings and the fear of being found out
- Isolation on a stipend in a new city or country
- Anxiety that spikes around deadlines, defenses and reviews
- Partners who relocated for someone else's position
Who these groups may help
- Graduate students and postdocs at the universities
- Contract researchers in Research Triangle Park
- International students and scholars far from family
- Trailing partners who moved for a job that was not theirs
Support group topics for people near Durham
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Durham
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Durham.
- Chapel Hill
- Carrboro
- Hillsborough
- Morrisville
- Research Triangle Park
- Cary
- Apex
- Durham County
- Orange County
Crisis and help lines near Durham
ShareWell groups are peer support and are not crisis or emergency services. If you or someone near you is in danger, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any hour.
Support groups in other cities
Frequently asked questions
I am in Chapel Hill or Carrboro rather than Durham. Is that fine?
I am an international student. Is this open to me?
Will anyone know I am attending?
Is there anything for the stress itself, not a diagnosis?
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