Tag: depression advocacy
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Heroes for Hope: Hope For The Warriors
This Veteran’s Day we’re kicking off a new series called “Heroes for Hope” where we’ll profile incredible people and organizations helping shine a light of hope for the more than 350 million people around the world living with depression. According to a study reported by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) that compared the medical…
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Finding Hope Through Change: How A Horse Helped Strengthen My Root Chakra
Life hasn’t been easy lately. I’ve recently moved to a new home in a new state, had a major shift with work, and celebrated my 45th birthday, which made me start realizing that my dream of having a family and children just may not be in the cards. While I know I still have so…
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Eoin
What Brings Me HOPE: I find hope through being part of something bigger than myself. I found this site through a very unusual “text adventure” called Depression Quest. I’ve suffered through the effects of depression through most of my young adult life and only recently (rounding on 40 years) have I started to feel like…
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Ashley K
What Brings Me HOPE: Life and Love “I’ll see you later, mom.” Those were the last words 10 year old me said to my mother. She gave up her ghost in the early hours of the morning on July 4th after she lost her short lived battle with stage 4 lung cancer. I swam in…
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Global Day for Hope Supports 350 Million with Depression
The International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred) launched its first annual Global Day for Hope on May 2, 2015, to support the 350 million people living with the treatable disease of depression. Organizations and individuals from around the globe joined together in solidarity to plant sunflowers, the international symbol of hope, in…
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Inspiring HOPE: One School At A Time
iFred launched Schools for Hope in Fall 2014 in two Chicago-area school districts (Woodland Intermediate School in Gurnee, Ill., and Oakland School in Antioch, Ill.) with the goal of expanding nationally and internationally. The program will launch in South America and Nepal this year, and is available for translation and in cobranded partnerships with other nonprofits…
