Support groups and links

Support groups

Getting together with other people who know what it’s like to go through depression, or care for someone with depression, can be very helpful. Support groups provide a place where you can encourage each other, share coping strategies, talk about feelings and make new friends.

You can find a support group through your state mental health association, the The Black Dog Institute or GROW.

Suicide prevention and online support

• Lifeline
• Suicide Prevention Australia
  
• For telephone services, see Helplines
  

General information about depression

• beyondblue
  
• The Black Dog Institute
  
• The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
  
• SANE Australia
  
• BluePages
  
• The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
  
• E-couch
  

Postnatal and antenatal depression

• Just Speak Up
  

For men

• MensLine Australia
  

For kids

• Kids Helpline
  

For teens

• Youth beyondblue
  
• ReachOut.com
  
• HeadSpace
  

For over-65s

• Black Dog Institute

For people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities 

• Mental health in multicultural Australia
  

Online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• MoodGym
  
• The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
  
• eCentreClinic
  
• Beating the blues
  

Forums

You can write about your own experience, and communicate with other people who know what it’s like, on these online forums:

• beyondblue, the national depression initiative
• BlueBoard, from the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University
• depressioNet