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Depression Support Groups

 

When you feel lower than whale shit on the bottom of the ocean.  When there's nothing to live for except the hope that someone will kill you now.  It's just been day after day after night after sleepless night of staring at the ceiling, or the TV, or just struggling through a colorless world trying not to kill yourself for one reason or another.   Where do you turn for support?

 

 

For the face-to-face groups, there's one place to start if you're depressed or bipolar: The Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance Directory of Support Groups

 

The Depression Forum on about.com Meds, suicide, rape, incest, other family dysfunctions, self-injury and a host of other cheerful subjects. You need to discuss them somewhere with people who understand.  I can't stress enough the high quality of support and information you'll find at about.com sites.

 

The Depression Center - This is the site for Major Depressive Disorder.  When you really need to take antidepressants.  The site features a forum moderated by health care professionals.

 

The DBSA people have their own online group.

 

Depression Forums - self-help, treatment options, meds, venting, comorbid disorders, spirituality, news.  This site is HUGE.

 

Depression Fallout - If you're not the one with an affective mood disorder, but your DH/DW/DSO/DD/DS/DF/DM has one (and you know what those stupid acronyms stand for), then here is is a fine support group for you.  In other words, if you're looking for support because a friend or family member is the nut job, go here.

 

 

Other lists of groups & suicide resources:

The Open Directory Guide to Depression Support Groups

 

The McMan Web Guide to Affective Disorder Support Groups.

 

Global Suicide Info - 24 hour crisis intervention hotlines from around the world in a variety of languages.

 

Suicide Crisis Resources Crisis intervention and support for survivors.

 

The About Bipolar Suicide Support Page 

 

There's also the page of sites with more information about Depression

 

 

 

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If you know of any good depression support groups / fora / chat rooms where you don't have to register just to take a look (but I'm fine with guests not being able to post or otherwise participate, just being able to look around is my only criterion), send me an e-mail to jerod23 at gmail dot com and I'll check them out.  Even if you're starting your own let me know.  There's no guarantee I'll list it, but you never know.  English language is not a requirement. 

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want to discuss your issues, I suggest checking out one of the various support groups online.  
Otherwise, if you're letting me know about how much you like or hate the site, or  need to let me know about medication effects in private, then just drop a note to jerod23 at gmail dot com  Honestly, I usually don't have a lot of time to answer e-mail these days.  The snide autoresponse message that may or may not hit your mailbox is going to tell you the same thing.
Another problem is that you may not get a response even if I wanted to send you one.  You see, so many dickweeds with malicious intents and too much time on their hands have appropriated the crazymeds.org domain name to use for their spam, viruses and the like.  Subsequently some lazy-ass e-mail protection software authors just go by the domain name, and not the IP address.  So I've been blacklisted because of the actions of others.  Or the software just doesn't like the domain name because of the "crazy" and/or "meds."  Or your question about a particular medication will set off spam flags.  So the e-mail just wouldn't go through regardless.  Sorry.

 

 

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Created Sunday, November 28, 2004

Last updated Monday, May 24, 2010

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