At the end of April AoD's Community Development team were trained by our colleages from Journeys in Wales in how to deliver their award-winning Depression Busting course. We hope that we might be able to deliver the course ourselves in Scotland at some point in the future - watch this space...
From 30 April 2012 until 11 May 2012 inclusive there will be changes to our telephone and email information service due to reduced staff cover. We will be unable to respond to emails within our usual 5 working days, but we will get back to you as soon as we can.
On Wednesday 2nd and 9th May 2012 ( 2pm - 4pm) there will be no telephone information service running.
ALL services will resume as normal from Monday 14th May.
As some of our visitors and supporters will know, our new Action on Depression website was launched in June 2011. A lot has been achieved in the last 10 months, but we have lots of ideas and plans for our future development of the site and we would love to involve everyone in this process. As time permits it is our intention to develop more interactive facilities on the site with the main purpose for visitors and supporters to interact and involve themselves in creating content for the site, with comments and feedback.
Action on Depression has just become an affiliated charity for the annual Challenge Scotland event. We expect to be there in numbers raising money and awareness, and would be delighted to be joined by as many fundraisers as possible. We plan to meet up as a group before the event starts, and hopefully at the end of the day to celebrate our success! More info on times and places in the near future.
To everyone who completed the sponsored walk 'Smile for a Mile' on Saturday 31st March in Dean Country Park, Kilmarnock - a big thank you. In total you raised £70 for Action on Depression; Money that will be well spent towards providing ongoing support locally and nationally for people in Scotland affected by depression.
Yes, it's nearly Summer and maybe not entirely relevant just now, but very interesting when the holiday company "First Choice" contacted us having produced an infographic that sheds light on Seasonal Affective Disorder and the amount of sunshine received by nine-to-fivers in December.
When I read the foreword, I thought this is what I am needing, a humorous view of depression. Having experienced depression for many years I have a good understanding of what thoughts go through your mind, how other people react to you and how people reject you.
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