I am caregiver for two generations of relatives with mental illnesses! It is exhausting!! Sometimes my husband and I wonder who are the sick ones- them or us?! A support group is very helpful to me. We all empathize with each other's challenges, and it gives us strength to go on when we know that others are doing the same thing we are doing!! And some things are funny in a group that are not funny alone! Laughter is good medicine, and very healing!