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DBSA produces The State of Depression in America, an award-winning report hosted by CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace. Wallace’s first major bout of depression was triggered in 1984, after U.S. Army General William C. Westmoreland sued Wallace and several others for libel. Westmoreland was featured in the 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, for which Wallace served as chief correspondent. Wallace’s courage in sharing his experiences with depression was lauded by peers and mental health experts alike.

 

DBSA meets with two Veterans Administration committees to discuss the integration of certified peer specialists into VA treatment plans.

DBSA receives a SAMHSA grant to develop and test a model peer specialist training program.

NDMDA changes its name to the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) to reflect modern psychiatric terminology.

The Journal of Affective Disorders publishes results of the first large-scale self-survey of NDMDA chapter members.

Clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, receives the Dr. Jan Fawcett Humanitarian Award with Second Lady Tipper Gore in attendance. Jamison’s memoir, An Unquiet Mind, revealed her personal struggles with bipolar disorder, which she has lived with since early adulthood.

Frederick K. Goodwin, MD, receives NDMDA’s Dr. Jan Fawcett Humanitarian Award at a gala benefit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace serves as emcee of the event. The award is named for psychiatrist, educator and author Jan Fawcett, MD, who provided care for Rose Kurland and became her partner in creating a new organization focused on the needs of people with bipolar disorder.

A congressional reception hosted by House Speaker Tip O’Neill with Senators Pete V. Domenici, Orrin Hatch, Daniel K. Inouye, Paul Simon, and U.S. Representative Silvio O. Conte celebrates the establishment of the National Depression and Manic Depression Association (NDMDA), formerly MDA. Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, who years earlier had lost her husband, Phil, to suicide, is the guest speaker. NDMDA uses the slogan “Honk if you’re on lithium” for its new promotional materials.

MDA holds its first convention at Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel, with 50 leaders from 14 states in attendance.

A meeting in Rose Kurland’s living room in the north suburbs of Chicago plants the seeds for a peer organization that will become the Manic Depressive Association (MDA).