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  • Awareness

    Find out about Action on Depression; our history, our team, our funding, publications and campaigns. Read about the support and services we offer and how to sign up to our e-bulletin. Discover what depression is and isn't, along with a list of symptoms and an explanations of the different types of low mood, including anxiety. Depression can be helped with treatment. Read our reliable information and advice on mediaction and talking therapies. Finding what works for you is part of the process of recovery.

  • Services

    Our online life skills course (Living Life to the Full) is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and helps people tackle feelings of low mood, stress and distress. We are affiliated to a number of support groups throughout Scotland and online which help ease the burden of depression, offering a safe place to talk freely about difficult subjects. Find out where we currently offer our services and the support available, and how you can get involved in supporting your local community.

  • Community

    Our Community section gives you the opportunity to get involved. We encourage you to share your thoughts, poems, stories and quotes; anything that may help someone feel less alone. If you would like to join Amanda, Anthony and Valerie as a regular blogger we’d love to hear from you. Sharing your experiences may help your own mood as well as informing and engaging others. Have you read a valuable book or article about depression? Share your information with others who may also gain benefit.

  • Support Us

    Would you like to take on a challenge and help take action on depression? From walking to abseiling, running to skydiving, we love our fundraisers! Are you able to give up your time to help us support as many people as possible with depression and raise awareness and challenge stigma? There's a lot you can do! We rely on support from members of the public to reach people with depression. Your donation will enable us to offer hope and save lives.

Depression and low mood can affect anyone at any time, regardless of how you look. It doesn't care about how many friends you have or what you do for a living.

Take the first step and find out what options are available. Discover what works for you, and with support recovery from depression is possible.