Want to help survivors and those grappling with depression? Just a click can help the nonprofit International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression raise $1.5 million from American Express Member Projects’ initiative. Vote now for this positive effort to try and help get the word out about depression and its many effective treatments:
aLive iThrive is a televised concert with artists and leaders publicly discussing depression. aLive will launch the positive depression brand - a color (green - renewal), a symbol (sunflower, seeds for planting in a field of Hope), month (May), and re-emphasize a 1-800 suicide hotline for those in crisis. We will remember those famous and not so famous we have lost and celebrate those that continue to survive. We will share new tools and treatment options.
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“Help Defy Depression”
In 2002, Stephan Petranek told an audience that according to the World Health Organization, 20% of the world was Clinically Depressed. One in five people: a pandemic in my little book.
In 2005, the World Health Organization wrote a health treaty for those suffering from mental illness. It stated in part:
The explicit inclusion of the promotion of mental, as well as physical, health is a timely reminder of the importance of looking at health holistically. Poor mental health affects more than 130 million Europeans at a cost to every European household of more than €2,000 per annum. Despite the high personal, social and economic costs too often mental health has been marginalised within public health policy.
It gives me some hope that this will finally become part of our health and social welfare concerns, when I read about initiatives such as aLive iThrive.
Dano.
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