We all want to be happy in life, full of health, vitalaty, having a past we can look on with contentment and a positive hope for the future.
Unfortunatally Life is not like that for most of us, illness, events beyond our control and many other things that happen in life can make us sad rather than happy.
For quite a few of us these sort of things can go futher than sadness into an illness, sush as depression and for some a long term depression called Dysthymia.
This website is designed with sufferers of Dysthymia in mind, use the links on the left to find out what Dysthymia and Depression is, how we get it and what the symptoms are.
More importantly what help is out there to aid us to get better, how we can help ourselves so we can turn our sadness back to happiness
You feel that life is getting harder, you get tired easily, things once enjoyable are becoming a chore. You have difficulty concentrating, doing tasks that were once easy you find more difficult.
Throughout a life time virtually everyone will suffer a bout of Depression, it may be an after effect of an illness such as Flu, many new mothers suffer post natal depression, many go down during the winter months, whist most people will suffer a reaction to a bad event such a the death of a loved one and many other events that life may through at us. Happily for most these type of depressions lift with time or at the very least with a bit of self help. However a minority need a helping hand (more)
