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."