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WHAT IS OUR MISSION?

The mission of Depression UK is to promote mutual support between individuals affected by or at risk from depression, with the aim of encouraging self help, recovery and personal growth.

HOW D-UK OFFERS MUTUAL SUPPORT

We believe our members are helped when they share their problems with fellow sufferers, because they understand, better than any non-depressed professional or carer can ever do, what it really feels like to be depressed. These members can then share their thoughts, feelings, hopes, disappointments and successes, and in so doing offer mutual support to each other.

We know that being able to “talk” to someone in this manner has helped us fight our own depression, proving that this is an illness that can definitely be overcome and cured.

Therefore our aims are:

  • to offer fellowship (friendliness), to anyone troubled by depression, whoever they are, in order to help them overcome their illness

  • to offer mutual support and to encourage self help

  • to overcome the isolation felt by many people with depression, and to help break down the stigma attached to the illness

  • to preserve the anonymity of our members at all times

  • to work alongside the medical and caring professions, and to attempt to meet the needs of sufferers not covered by health professionals

  • neither to give medical advice nor to endorse any medical treatment or product — because we are not qualified to do so.

(Page updated: 26 July 2008)
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