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| Online Support |  In-person support for post-abortion recovery would either be on a weekend draw back, one-on-one counseling with a therapist, clergyperson or lay facilitator, or a weekly support group.
On-line support is performing through a message board, online recovery group, e-group, planned or spontaneous online chats, or email.
Even now, when you are reading this, you are already using one of the many advantages of the internet: Quick, fast, information on a needed subject to you, fully at your own convenience, and with complete anonymity.
From the time when the internet came along, people have surprised how the online experience stands on a level with face-to-face experiences. Doctors wonder whether online therapy can be effectual, Catholics wonder what it means to pray before the Blessed Sacrament that is shown on a webpage, young lovers wonder if it is “real” love if you only know the person online.
Very likely that for most people, as they journey toward recovery, face-to-face contact will finish up being very significant at some point. Online support, nevertheless, has great strengths. For a good number of people, it is not an either/or choice (either in-person or online support) but a both/and choice (both in-person and online support).
PASS websites share the following perspectives on the online experience:
1. Convenience – the simplicity of being able to communicate and chat about this on their computer, in the privacy of their own home, at time that is suitable for them.
2. Privacy – the secrecy of using a computer and not having to talk face to face at once about what was and is for some an absolutely distressing and very painful issue.
3. Safety – they like not having to use their real name, and be private.
4. Ease – Besides for many women it is easier to type things then to write them, particularly when it comes to this issue!
It is still much to be gained from an in-person hug, and an in-person group, but if there isn't one in a woman's region, or she is too shy or not ready for the step of going out into public with this, an online group is valuable. For example, some online groups may have women from different countries of the world like the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, England, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Soviet Georgia, France and Germany – and this wouldn't be possible with an in person group!
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