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Providing hope, support, and inspiration

The lived experience of depression or bipolar disorder, which can often begin painfully and with debilitating symptoms, can ultimately provide people with diagnoses with unique insights and abilities to help their peers, as well as hope and inspiration. And helping others can aid people with mood disorders in building their confidence and maintaining their own mental health.

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Peer Inspiration

Read stories, watch videos, and experience the outlets many of your peers have found to be helpful in their search for wellness.

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Balanced Mind Parent Network (BMPN)

BMPN is an online support community where you’ll find connection, resources, and hope for the road ahead. BMPN guides families raising children with mood disorders to the answers, support, and stability they seek.

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DBSA Chapters and Support Groups

DBSA chapters offer peer-run support groups across the nation where you will find comfort and direction in a confidential and supportive setting, and where you can make a difference in the lives of others.

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Peer Stories

Vanessa Harris

For me, the support groups are a place where we can let our hair down. We can talk about the things people say to us that make us feel bad. A lot of us have experienced the same types of discrimination and can say “Yeah, I’ve heard that too. I understand.”

Bonnie Rosenthal

I deal with depression every single day. I question why I was put here on this earth. I say to myself: you were put here on this earth to make a difference in other people's lives. I do that when someone comes to DBSA.
Olivia Eiler
Olivia Eiler

I felt like no one could understand what I was going through. DBSA support groups taught me I was wrong.