TY - JOUR T1 - RULE NUMBER ONE JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 857 LP - 857 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X539371 VL - 60 IS - 580 AU - Fiona Dowson Y1 - 2010/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/580/857.abstract N2 - It was the famous line in the Fight Club: rule number one, ‘don’t talk about Fight Club.’ Surreal as it was, the great thing about Fight Club as a film was the sideways look it took at support group culture.The only thing that’s missing is a support group for people who have no real problems but would like someone to talk this over with.Are support groups and charities really part of the problem more than part of the solution? When my brother died of cancer at the age of 42 I was left so isolated I might as well have been on a desert island with my top 10 favourite records. The advice I heard time and time again was to go and see the nice volunteers at Cruse Bereavement Care.This is all well and good … ER -