Depressed Anonymous has been formed with the idea that mutual aid empowers people and is a therapeutic healing force. Our organization helps to form groups or circles of support for persons depressed.

We offer depressed individual information on how to gain and use the tools for overcoming depression. Groups have been formed throughout the United States and several have been successfully organized in other international communities as well.

These groups are similar in methodology and goal, to those used by Alcoholics Anonymous in its work in helping alcoholics recover from alcoholism. Our members learn that they have a choice to stay depressed or to take responsibility for themselves and leave the prison of depression.

As part of forming these groups, Depressed Anonymous seeks to inform and educate the public about the signs and symptoms of depression, inform them of where they can go to seek help and to establish self-help programs in their own communities. Web also visit the various healthcare communities and their caregivers to inform them of the resources that we are able to offer and to aid us by locating the depressed patient and thereby give them hope.

Depressed Anonymous aims to be a link between the mental health care communities and those suffering from depression.

Depressed Anonymous will provide its many educational and advocacy resources to professionals so that they may provide their patients with hope and real help.

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