Howie Atkin, a volunteer with the Service User Improvement Team (SUIT) service, which supports vulnerable adults and helps recovering addicts, visited the new support group for the first time last week.
He said it was an opportunity for participants “to know that we are not alone – just like the people that we work with are not alone”.
The drop-in is run by Rethink Mental Illness in partnership with SUIT, Wolves Foundation and Good Shepherd, which supports vulnerable people, alongside health and care partnership OneWolverhampton.
Council cabinet member for health, wellbeing and community Obaida Ahmed, said the sessions “create a safe space” for people to “take positive steps forward together”.
“Talking openly about our mental health is one of the most powerful things we can do,” she stated.
Sessions are held at the Rethink Train Station Hub at Wolverhampton railway station.
