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Depression Awareness Week 2012 – We’d like to hear your story

 

Held every year in April, Depression Awareness Week™ is a great opportunity to raise awareness for this particular condition and mental health in general, and to try to end the stigma associated.

This year’s Depression Awareness Week is 22nd to 28th April, and we would very much like to hear about your personal experiences with the hope of sharing them with the Black Dog Tribe community.

We are looking for guest bloggers to be featured on blackdogtribe.com throughout the week, so if you would like to share your story please get in touch on sutro@blackdogtribe.com.

If you are hosting a local fundraising event to raise funds and awareness about depression, please do let us know and we will share it here with the community.

To raise money you can download a fundraising pack from the Depression Alliance. Alternatively you can support Depression Awareness Week by donating online at http://www.justgiving.com/depression/donate.

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Yang wrote on 04 | 17 | 2012
Two key phrases help me manage my Depression (Moderate Severe Clinical with SPD): "Depression does not equate to being sad or miserable." & "Depression is a sign of being 'too strong' for 'too long'." They shifted my perspective on what it is to be depressed from the lonely 'suicide waiting to happen' toward a less isolated and more supported place. Don't get me wrong... I'm still on the journey, just a little more likely to arrive in one piece. :-)
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My story is that I first suffered depression at 16 years ( I am now 55) and again 4 more serious episodes before diagnosis and treatment in my early forties but I could not accept that I was "depressed" as my experience was that this was a very physical illness - and of course the stigma was too much to bear. I have finally accpeted - without fear - these episodes of lost living as clinical depression or depressive illness and it has been liberating to accept this. If we could overcome the stigma - how much more quickly might some of us be helped ? I have also discovered that much of my slide into depression was an almost obsessive tendency to keep going in the face of exhaustion because the need to stay strong was overwhelming when others woudl have simply given into those circumstances and stayed healthy by doing so.
moonwitch wrote on 04 | 13 | 2012
I like the idea of sharing experiences as this is a disease that never quits. I was recently granted by disability by Social Security and told I would have to be "reviewed" in two years and that "with proper care I should improve". What a laugh. I've never encountered a medicine yet that would take this stuff away. I know I'm depressed because now I can hop a plane and visit england but am too tired to even think about it, let alone do it.