News and Information on Depression

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We collected the best sites focusing on depression-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

Depression Alliance

• Description: We work to relieve and to prevent this treatable condition by providing information and support services to those who are affected by it via our publications, supporter services and network of self-help groups for people affected by depression. A user-focussed organisation, we have offices in England and a sister charity in Scotland.
• Quality: The organizer of the Depression Awareness Week™.

Depression Forums

• Description: We would like to invite you to share your story about your Depression, as breaking the silence will help us to break open the stigma surrounding mental health that keeps people from getting the care that continues misunderstandings about those affected by mental health disorders.
• Quality: HONcode accredited.

Healthline Depression Channel

• Description: Depression is more than just occasionally having the blues. Depression is a mood disorder. You feel sad and have no joy in life. You may feel that you have nothing to live for. There are many types of depression, from simple depressed mood to Major Depression - a life-threatening illness.
• Quality: The articles are written by a medical board.

Medical News Today

• Description: The latest Depression News articles published daily. Includes news on symptoms, treatments and current research towards understanding and combating depression.
• Quality: One of the most compherensive medical news sites.

Medicine.net

• Description: MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site. Since 1996, MedicineNet.com has had a highly accomplished, uniquely experienced team of qualified Webster's New World Medical Dictionary - authored by MedicineNetexecutives in the fields of medicine, healthcare, Internet technology, and business to bring you the most comprehensive, sought after healthcare information anywhere.
• Quality: The authors are medical professionals.

MedLine Plus Depression

• Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
• Quality: Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

NHS Choices: Depression

• Description: Dominic Arkwright reports on what distinguishes depression from unhappiness and how sufferers deal with the symptoms and stigma of depression.
• Quality: NHS Choices is committed to the highest editorial and ethical standards in the provision of all its content and related services. Details here.

Patient.co.uk: Depression

• Description: The aim of this website is to provide non-medical people in the UK with good quality information about health and disease. The authors do this by writing evidence based information leaflets on a wide range of medical and health topics. They also review health and illness related websites and link to many of these from the web directory included on this website. UK sites are the primary links in the web directory as they feel that residents in the UK prefer to obtain health information from UK sources. They also suggest some links to selected overseas sites.
• Quality: The authors are medical professionals, you can download the material or listen to it online.

Science Daily Depression News

• Description: News, articles, videos, images and books about depression.
• Quality: It has a clearly described editorial stuff

WebMD Depression Center

• Description: Everyone has felt depressed. Yet the sadness and other symptoms of depression that are intense and last for long periods of time, can signal clinical depression or major depression, a serious medical illness that needs professional care.
• Quality: HONcode accredited.