Hi Everyone
I have read many messages where the main theme is that some people tend not to understand depression. It is especially worrying for me, being from South Africa, that our medical aids (medical schemes paying for medication) have now decided to exclude Depression from the conditions that they are obliged to pay for. It is also worrying that people on the street and many of our families look down on people with depression and put them in state homes to care for, or send them to villages where they are not seen.
Could some of you, from the First World Countries, tell me what your support groups have done to increase knowledge and understanding of depression (and other mental illnesses) and whether it has helped? I am at a stage where I think the only way to beat depression is to fight for the rights of people living with depression and other mental illnesses.
