Online Support Groups Near Raleigh and Durham
Whether you are in Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, Apex or somewhere else in the Triangle, ShareWell has live online support groups for the thing many transplants carry quietly: a parent getting older several states away. Raleigh and Durham are full of people who came for a job at a university, a hospital or a company in the Research Triangle Park, and the move made sense right up until the phone call about Mom.
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 Raleigh.
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Worrying about parents who are far away
Most people in the Triangle moved here as adults, from the Northeast, the Midwest, other parts of the South or another country, drawn by the universities, the research park and a comfortable place to raise a family. That means the parents are somewhere else, and as they age the distance turns into a second job: coordinating doctors by phone, booking flights after a fall, arguing with a sibling who lives closer about what should happen next, and feeling guilty whichever way it goes. Careers here are demanding and the suburbs between Cary and Wake Forest are full of families with the same full calendar, so there is little room to admit you are frightened for someone several states away. The local circle is often built on work and kids, which is not where people talk about a father who is starting to forget things.
How peer support helps near Raleigh
A peer group puts you in a room with others who are caring for someone from a distance and know the particular guilt of it. You join from home in the Triangle, or from the parent's house when you are there, and the group stays steady through the flights and the phone calls.
What members near Raleigh talk about
- Caring for an aging parent from several states away
- Guilt about having moved far from family
- Sibling tension over who does what for Mom or Dad
- Grief when the parent you were managing from afar dies
Who these groups may help
- Transplants whose parents are aging in another state or country
- University, hospital and research park employees with no family nearby
- Adult children coordinating care by phone and plane
- Anyone balancing young kids here and older parents elsewhere
Support group topics for people near Raleigh
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Raleigh
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Raleigh.
- Durham
- Cary
- Chapel Hill
- Apex
- Wake Forest
- Garner
- Morrisville
- Wake County
- The Triangle
Crisis and help lines near Raleigh
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.
- Alliance Health Behavioral Health Crisis Line877-223-4617
Wake, Durham, Johnston, Orange, Cumberland and Harnett counties, 24 hours a day, every day
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Frequently asked questions
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