1. Section A: General Information

 
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Thankyou for completing the world's first Holistic Depression Treatment Effectiveness Survey. We believe it is time that the experts - the people that live with depression and bipolar - decided what are the most effective depression treatments.

We want to use this information to provide a mouthpiece for those with depression and bipolar.

Thank you for taking the time to complete it - it may be the most important information that policy makers have recieved in some time.

Section A: General information
Section B: Other treatments/strategies
Section C: Antidepressant strategies
Section D: The incidence of stigma

All responses are confidential but we need to understand some details regarding your background to make the findings more meaningful. Nothing can be attributed directly to you.
Graeme Cowan is an Australian based authority on how people can bounce back from adversity and depression.

He is working with the www.DBSAlliance.org to produce a book called "BACK FROM THE BRINK: Americans tell their stories of overcoming depression". The highlights of this research will be used in the book and also made available for free on the dbsa website.

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* 1. My age is:

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* 2. I am:

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* 3. My principal language is:

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* 4. Marital status

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* 5. In which region of the world do you live?

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* 6. What is your present state of employment?

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* 7. What is your current (or most recent) occupation?

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* 8. Over your lifetime, have you ever had a period—lasting two weeks or more—when you’ve felt significantly depressed, found it difficult to cheer up, lost pleasure in things, had a drop in self-esteem or self-worth, and not been able to cope as well as usual?

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* 9. If yes, how old were you when this first happened?

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* 10. For any period of depression, have you ever consulted a primary care physician (PCP) or general practitioner (GP)?

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* 11. For any period of depression, have you ever consulted a psychologist?

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* 12. For any period of depression, have you ever consulted a psychiatrist?

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* 13. For any period of depression, have you ever consulted any other health care professional?

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* 14. How long did your longest period of depression last?

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* 15. Have you ever experienced periods of depression only (unipolar depression), or have you ever had periods times of depression (“lows”) as well as “highs,” or mania (bipolar disorder)?

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