Depression

Depression is more than simply feeling unhappy or fed up for a few days.

Most people go through periods of feeling down, but when you’re depressed you feel persistently sad for weeks or months, rather than just a few days.

Some people think depression is trivial and not a genuine health condition. They’re wrong – it is a real illness with real symptoms.

Depression is not a sign of weakness or something you can “snap out of” by “pulling yourself together”.

We have created some great resources to help you understand depression and how you can develop strategies using our handy self-help tools to enable self-care and mechanisms to cope.