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."
The committee's mission is to "…seek to live out the reconciling love of Jesus by offering educational programs and networking resources so that the Church may be a welcoming sanctuary for people living with mental illness." Their work includes helping congregations in the Diocese of Virginia find ways to include those affected by mental illness in the life of the Church, connecting parishes with local and regional volunteer opportunities, providing educational resources and events in order to eliminate the stigma of mental illness.
The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry is a network of scholars and clinicians within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, devoted to promoting research, training and consultation in social and cultural psychiatry.
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the organization describes itself as "an inter-faith coalition of faith communities dedicated to increasing understanding of mental illness through Education, Advocacy, and Support."
J. Hastings, W. Ceusters, B. Smith, and K. Mulligan. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, volume 833 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, (Jul 30, 2011)