Join our weekly Support Group
Every Saturday we gather online to create a space where people living with schizophrenia and related psychotic experiences can speak openly without judgement. Whether you're newly diagnosed or have lived with schizophrenia for many years, you'll be welcomed with respect, curiosity, and compassion. Connection is a profound source of healing. Find solidarity, share your unique narrative, and build relationships with peers who honor your truth.
Who Can Join?
This group is open to people living with schizophrenia/schizoaffective or related psychotic experiences. Whether you have recently been diagnosed or have lived with schizophrenia for many years, you are welcome.
Practical Information
- Every Saturday
- 6:30 – 8:00 PM IST
- Online via Zoom
- Free to attend
- Facilitated by Pankaj Suneja
- Confidential and respectful space
What to Expect
These meetings are not therapy or lectures, but they are therapeutic in nature. They are conversations where people come together to share experiences, listen with care, and explore recovery, relationships, identity, voices, grief, hope, and everyday life—without judgement or pressure to speak.
Reflections from our support group meetings
Together in the Darkness
Reflection from the 14th Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
A meeting filled with a different kind of energy—joy, openness, patience and a growing sense that we could support, care for and hold one another. We spoke about years of loneliness, feeling unlovable, the longing to be cared for, and the many ways people make sense of psychosis through medication, therapy, spirituality and relationships. We also explored the fear of being watched, the feeling that there is nowhere private or safe to retreat to, and the struggle to find ourselves beneath layers of fear, perfection and pretence. Alongside this came conversations about depression, anhedonia and those moments when life can feel like a dark tunnel with no visible way out. Read Reflection →
When Fear fills the room
Reflection from the 14th Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
A meeting filled with fear, voices, paranoia, uncertainty and the struggle to feel safe in our own bodies. We spoke about the terror of being watched or attacked, the difficulty of knowing what is real, and the complicated relationship we can have with medication and recovery. We also explored something quieter: the difference between truly being present in our bodies and simply becoming numb. Even in the midst of overwhelming experiences, the group became a place where fear could be spoken about openly and held together. Perhaps healing is not when the fear disappears, but when we slowly discover that we do not have to face it alone. Read Reflection →
When Reality Becomes Uncertain
Reflection from the 13th Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
A conversation about psychosis, reality, fear, voices, films, stigma and identity. We explored what happens when we can no longer trust what we see, hear or feel—and how frightening it can be to face these experiences alone.
Read Reflection →When Grief enters the room
Reflection from the twelfth Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
A meeting shaped by vulnerability, anger, friendship and grief. We explored what happens when feelings that have been pushed away for years finally begin to emerge—especially anger, hurt and the longing to be seen by those we love. Through a role play, we practised saying what is often left unspoken in relationships: Read Reflection →
Born in a Riot
Reflection from the eleventh Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
A reflection on childhood memories of violence, trauma, survival, and the experience of feeling thrown into a chaotic world without enough holding. Together, we explored whether community can become the place where we finally feel safe, understood, and at home. Read Reflection →
Finding a Place to Call Home
Reflection from the Tenth Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Many of us spoke about wanting to disappear, either through metaphor of rowing the boat or wish to move to mountains, to run away, or to find somewhere we truly belonged. By the end of the meeting, we began to wonder whether healing might start when we create that place together—a home where every part of our experience is welcome. Read Reflection →
Finding Our Way in the World
Reflection from the Ninth Schizophrenia Support Network Meeting
How do we stay connected to the world without becoming overwhelmed by it? This reflection explores sensitivity, stigma, everyday courage, and the quiet ways we gradually find our place in the world again.
Read Reflection →Returning to Ourselves
Reflection from the Eighth Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Together we reflected on identity, loneliness, nature, trauma, and the quiet search for belonging. Sometimes healing is not about becoming someone new, but about gently finding our way back to the person we have always been beneath fear, expectation, and survival.
Read Reflection →Finding Hope in Despair
Reflection from the Seventh Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Together we reflected on loss, loneliness, work, creativity, and the quiet weight of despair. Sometimes hope does not arrive through easy answers, but through the simple experience of someone staying beside us until we no longer have to carry our darkness alone.
Read Reflection →Staying with the Voices
Reflection from the Sixth Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Together we explored grief, relationships, hearing voices, and the challenge of living alongside frightening experiences. Sometimes healing begins not when the voices disappear, but when we discover we no longer have to face them alone.
Read Reflection →What Does It Mean to Be Sane?
Reflection from the Fifth Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Together we reflected on recovery, self-trust, compassion, and the meaning of sanity after psychosis. Along the way, another question quietly emerged: perhaps healing begins when we find a place where we no longer have to explain ourselves before we are accepted.
Read Reflection →Feeling Unlovable
Reflection from the Fourth Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Our conversation explored the experience of hearing voices, living with stigma, and longing to be accepted without judgement. Sometimes healing begins not by silencing our inner voices, but by hearing another human voice remind us that we are worthy of love.
Read Reflection →Giving Pain a Place to Speak
Reflection from the Third Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Together we explored recovery, hidden stories, and the courage to speak about experiences that have long remained unspoken. Sometimes healing begins when our pain is finally heard with compassion, without shame, and without the need to explain it away.
Read Reflection →Learning to Step Back into Life
Reflection from the Second Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Our conversation explored the quiet courage of rebuilding life after psychosis—returning to work, facing loneliness, caring for loved ones, and finding hope in small everyday moments. Sometimes recovery begins not with dramatic change, but with taking one gentle step forward.
Read Reflection →Looking for a Place to Belong
Reflection from the First Schizophrenia Support Group Meeting
Three strangers came together to speak openly about schizophrenia, family, loneliness, and the longing to be understood. As the conversation unfolded, one quiet truth emerged: perhaps healing begins when we discover we no longer have to carry our experiences alone.
Read Reflection →Crisis Buddy Program
No one should have to face a difficult moment alone.
The Crisis Buddy Program is a peer-support initiative of the Schizophrenia Support Network that connects people with trained peers who can offer companionship, listening, and practical support during difficult moments, emotional distress, or the early signs of a crisis.
A Crisis Buddy are peers who chooses to walk alongside another person with empathy, patience, respect, and hope.
Explore the Crisis Buddy Program →Community Values
Respect
Every person's experience deserves to be heard without judgement or ridicule.
Curiosity
We seek to understand before we attempt to explain, diagnose, or correct.
Confidentiality
Stories shared within the group remain within the group.
Hope
Recovery is not only about reducing symptoms but also about rebuilding meaning, connection, and dignity.