Depression

Quiz: Are You Depressed? A simple self-test that can help you begin to distinguish between clinical depression and the blues.

How to Heal Depression. A very readable book on the web on managing depression written by an MD and a depression survivor.

Depression: What You Need to Know. Brochure by the National Institute of Mental Health.

Let's Talk Facts About Depression Brochure by the American Psychiatric Association addressing depression from a medical perspective (symptoms, treatment, medication).

What To Do When Someone You Know is Depressed.

Andrew's Depression Page. Poems, stories, and helpful links to depression resources. Good site to get a feel for the experience of depression, from people who have been through it.

Wing of Madness. Award-winning site produced by a woman in recovery from depression; good "lay person's" site in understandable, non-medical terms.

Light Therapy for Seasonal Depression. Important things to know if you are considering doing light therapy for your seasonal depression, written by an MD specializing in treating depression.

Medications Used to Treat Depression. The Nation's Voice on Illness, a consumer organization on serious and persistent mental illness, provides information on medications for depression.

Bipolar Depression. Information, online support groups, articles, treatments, and links.

Use this questionnaire to help determine if you need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of mania or manic-depression or bipolar disorder.

Beating Depression University of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire

Depression Macquarie University

Depression: What Is It? What to Do About It? University of Texas at Austin