What Brings Me Hope: My experiences in healing depression without drugs. I was depressed in 1984-85 and was taking loads of meds and depression was controlled, but not showing signsContinue Reading
What Brings Me HOPE: I find hope through being part of something bigger than myself. I found this site through a very unusual “text adventure” called Depression Quest. I’ve sufferedContinue Reading
What Brings Me HOPE: Life and Love “I’ll see you later, mom.” Those were the last words 10 year old me said to my mother. She gave up her ghostContinue Reading
Singer/songwriter Demi Lovato has been an outspoken advocate for mental health since being diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder. “Getting a diagnosis was kind of a relief. It helped meContinue Reading
The International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred) launched its first annual Global Day for Hope on May 2, 2015, to support the 350 million people living withContinue Reading
iFred launched Schools for Hope in Fall 2014 in two Chicago-area school districts (Woodland Intermediate School in Gurnee, Ill., and Oakland School in Antioch, Ill.) with the goal of expandingContinue Reading