#depressionhurts
A resource site for mental health, particularly those affected by depression, suicide or bullying. Help and Hope for YOU or for a loved one.

FREE APP

What is #depressionhurts?
It's a FREE to use twitter-based initiative, aiming to remove the shame and stigma which surround depression, suicide and mental illness.  

Depression is an ILLNESS and affects 1 in 4 of us, maybe you or the people you love. It's the only illness treated with such shame & stigma.

So we made a video to get people talking and understanding. Take a look, the video's on this page. We called it: ‘It Starts With You’  - because it does!

It's how YOU think and behave that either adds to the hurt of depression or suicide or helps the sufferers. We have a FREE mobile app too, so information and help can be wherever you are.

We know that to change attitude & remove stigma to depression and suicide... It Starts With You. 

We hope you'll decide to be part of the change: see the menu item on the left "playing your part"

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NEED HELP?
If you, or someone you
know, need someone to talk to:

Contact Samaritans - call someone on 
116 123
​UK or Ireland. Free from any phone.

Contact your local doctor  - search under 'General Practitioners' in the Golden Pages or search here

Go to, or contact, the Accident and Emergency Department of your nearest general hospital. Don't hesitate - you wouldn't if it was your leg that was broken. 
Search here

These are great links below. There's a lot of help out there, a road well travelled by others before you who want to pay it back and help. 

1Life
re-directed to Samaritans
IF YOU NEED HELP CALL 116 123

Pieta House 
self harm and suicide support

See Change
details of major help organisations

Blurt It Out
depression in its many forms

Make a pledge

Making a personal pledge to help ourselves, and help others, however we can, is a new way of instigating social change. We see "the" news, don't we? And feel powerless to help. Well this process turns that powerlessness into change for good. Here's two schemes, one we support and one of our own.

One4One Pledgemaker
IE/UK/World

We support the amazing . . .
Get Connected, Spun Out.ie, 
Grow.ie and The Blurt Foundation