… a project of Massachusetts General Hospital, … to find the best treatments for depression and bipolar disorder. For the first time, patients, families, doctors, and researchers are working together as equal partners to change the direction of mood disorder research.
Project Semicolon is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and love to those who struggle with depression, self-injury, mental illness and suicide.
Created through collaboration among the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), University of Michigan Depression Center, and the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Imagine the "Choose Your own Adventure" book series and DSM-IV had a love child.
"…an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people."
National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD): annually on Thursday of the first full week of April.
National Depression Screening Day (NDSD): : annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October.
The site of Pastor Todd Peperkorn (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod), author of the book, I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression.
A short article about Peperkorn's book appeared in the July 2009 issue of "EMIN News."