Micro-blogging is the practice of sending brief text updates, photos, audio/video clips or links and make these public on a website and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. These messages can be submitted by text messaging, instant messaging or e-mail.
Many micro-blogs provide short commentary about medical news, medical specialties or a company's products and services.
Webicina features two microblogging platforms including
Twitter and
Friendfeed.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.
To Write Love on Her Arms
WLOHA is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.
Anxiety Help
Anxiety Depression is characterized by the state of being overly anxious about things. We're here to help you cope.
My Mental Health
News, updates and useful links about mental health, depression, anxiety, suicide, eating disorders such as anorexia, plus drug and sex addiction and more.
Depression Forums
Depression and Mental Health Social Community Support, Mood Disorders,medication, therapy,recovery. Eliminating stigma through education, advocacy since 2001.
Depression Help Info
Tweeting depression info and tips all day. Try not to get depressed!
Mental Help Net
Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, ADHD, Stress, Addictions, Psychosis, Borderline, Schizophrenia, etc. Comprehensive mental health information and community.
Talk Depression
A peer support forum where people can get together and talk in a safe environment.
Stress and Depression
Information and news on Stress, Depression and Anxiety.
Depression Research
The latest news on depression research + information on depression research studies taking place in Sydney.
Healthline Depression
Healthline updates on the latest Depression news and research.
Mental-Health Help
Empowering people with social anxiety, depression and self-esteem issues.
Polarwisdom
PolarWisdom is a news, community and advocacy feed for those dedicated to living well with depression and bipolar disorder.
Greythinking
Commentary on mental health, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, PTSD, psychopharmacology, etc.
TalkLife
On demand mental health phone counseling. This is our Tweetline. We're here to listen! Managed by @kynamdoan, @shawea
MentalHealhSocial.com
MentalHealthSocial.com is a free mental health social network run by Colin Spencer Wood (who was diagnosed bipolar in 1999)
Blue Like You
Feeling blue? Join us in the Blue Like You media campaign to create a new reality around the way we experience and perceive depression in our society.
Mentalhealthuk
Mental Health UK
Depression News
Depression news from around the web.
Depression Alliance
UK's leading charity for people living with depression.
Depression
Depression symptoms, treatment,depression causes and signs.
David Bransford MD
Psychiatric Physician..in clinical practice in Northern MN for past 25 years. M.D. Psychiatry.
Joel Sax
Deadbeat, reconciler of cats and dog, advocate for bipolar sufferers, progressive (rather than liberal), retired peace activist, poet, writer, blogger.
Katherine Stone
Mom, advocate, author of most widely-read blog on postpartum depression and related illnesses.
Jake Sully Nisbett
Notching victories over HIV and depression for 20 years.
Kev
Autism and Manic Depression advocate.
Dr Laura Smith
Co-author of 8 psychology books including: OCD for Dummies and Depression for Dummies.
Paul Raeburn
Journalist, author, Fathers and Families blog, and acquainted with the night, a memoir of raising kids with depression and bipolar disorer.
Merri Ellen Giesbrecht
It all began at the end -from suicidal to helping others. I learned the scoop on what cures depression and am sharing it with others. Follow me and find hope.
Lori Hopkins Rodewald
Living with type 2 diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, depression.
Dr. Keely Kolmes
Psychologist working with anxiety, depression, relationships, sexuality and social media issues. I do not provide online therapy.
Drnabil
Pediatric psychologist with interests in autism, ADHD, behavior management, health care reform, and health disparities.
Susan King
My brother and I write a blog about having lived our lives with depression.
Laureen Toner
I live in the UK. After going through a really difficult time, I wrote a book to help other people with depression.
John McManamy
Mental health journalist.
There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about depression.
Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.
It lets you track all the tweets and tweople focusing on depression.
Friendfeed is an aggregator that collects the updates from social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among a community.
There is no Friendfeed room focusing on depression, but
doing a search for depression in the total Friendfeed timeline might provide you with some useful information and links.
According to the World Health Organization, it is predicted to be the second-leading cause of disease burden worldwide in the year 2030. But there are valuable online communities, services and groups that can provide you with support.
