This center provides free support groups for 1) family and friends and 2) adults over 18 years of age who have any eating disorder.  The groups are associated with an eating disorder treatment center, but there is no pressure to use their fee-based services.  For details, call Southlake Center in Davidson at 704/896-7776 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Click for overview of Eating Disorders resources)

A facilitated free group which used to meet providing support for family and friends of anyone with an eating disorder.  The group stopped meeting for lack of attendance, but the leader is available for individual support for family members.  To learn more, call a leader of the group at 943-4677 any time; since it's a work number at school, she may not be able to retrieve your message for up to a week.  (Click for overview of Eating Disorders resources)

Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders (ANAD) (1994)
CHARMED  -- Eating Disorders Group (2001)
Eating Disorders Support Group (1999)
Eating Disorders Family Group (1998)  see alternative above (SHINE)

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

MedLinePlus

This service of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health is one of the better one-stop shops for beginning your search on the internet for medical information.  For those of you who live in Mecklenburg and Union counties in NC, we recommend that you contact the Health Library for more personal assistance from the experts there in searching for reliable medical information. Click here for their details.

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.