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When support groups develop us-versus-them thinking

I joined this online group after my divorce because I needed support but now they constantly talk about how terrible all men are and I have a teenage son.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The human need for community can evolve into rigid categories that complicate rather than heal personal experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mob psychology and belonging to a cause?”

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