Depression-related Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

WebMD® - Depression Community

• Description: "Living with depression is as hard as trying to get better. Discuss treatment, medication, and coping techniques here."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

CATCH-IT

• Description: "Project CATCH-IT is a community and internet-based project designed to teach coping skills to teenagers and young adults."
• Content: "This website is recommended to youths by their families or primary care doctors and is intended to help you teach yourself how to beat the blues on your own time. "
• Quality: Here is a detailed list of sources and authors.

DepNet.com

• Description: "DepNet is a Community on the Internet where people affected by depression and related diseases have the opportunity to meet and exchange experiences as well as finding information and help. DepNet is also a tool to support and help relatives."
• Content: Help for depression, help for relatives.

Depression Tribe

• Description: "DepressionTribe is an online support community designed to connect individuals that suffer from depression. Members enjoy a variety of features."
• Content: Blogs, health news, groups, events, polls about depression.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Depression-Understood

• Description: Online support community for those with depression, anxiety and other mood related issues
• Content: Information centre, community and chat rooms.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

eHealthForum - Depression Forum

• Description: "Welcome to the Depression Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

Healia - Depression Online Health Community and Support Group

• Description: "Welcome to the Healia Health Community for Depression. Through this Depression support group, you can get Depression information, share experiences about Depression, connect with peers, and get answers to your Depression questions from health professionals."
• Content: Information about depression, community questions, and expert answers.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealingWell - Depression Forum

• Description: "HealingWell.com is a thriving social network and support community for patients, caregivers, and families coping with the daily struggles of diseases, disorders and chronic illness."
• Quality: Health content is contributed by reputable health organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Mediwire and e-HealthSource.

Health Central - Depression Community

• Description: "Make a connection, ask a question, share a concern, give advice or just chat. Our message boards connect you with a community of people who understand where you’re coming from and what you’re going through."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MDJunction - Depression Support Group

• Description: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Depression, together."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MedHelp - Depression Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 5.5 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 14 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Medpedia - Depression Community

• Description: "For scientists, researchers, advocates, mental health counselors, psychiatrists, caregivers, psychologists, and those interested in learning more about depression."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

Revolution Health - Depression Community

• Description: "Welcome to Revolution Health's Depression Support group. Let's create a place where we can support each other, learn from each other, and stay strong...together."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

The Depression Forum

• Description: The depression forum is not a substitute for professional help. However, you may find that sharing your experience and connecting with others makes you feel better. Our members come from many different countries and are many different ages, each with different circumstances. As alone as you may feel, chances are that somebody else at the depression forum can identify with whatever you are going through.
• Quality: Almost 200,000 posts.

Twitter Moms - Post-Partum Depression Group

• Description: An influential moms network.
• Content: Groups, discussions, blogs, videos and photos.
• Quality: A physician created the podcast, and there are several MDs in the community.

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous Depression groups:

Depression

• Description and content: "For all those who have depression problem."

Depression Awareness

• Description and content: "A Facebook group dedicated to depression awareness."

Click here to see other depression-related Facebook groups.

Depression Test

• Description: "Do you have depression or the blues? Take our free Depression quiz and get instant, reliable results. From Psych Central."

Depression Tester

• Description: "You are under stress? You lose weight? You find hard to make decisions? You feel restless or irritable? Take this test and you will find your score on Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale."

Do You Suffer a Mood Disorder?

• Description: This questionaire is not proven to be scientifically valid or reliable, but may indicate whether you have a form of Depression or Bipolar Disorder.