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Depressed Anonymous is a Twelve Step fellowship following the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous. These spiritual principles, if followed, can provide a daily reprieve from saddening yourself and making depression worse than it would be otherwise. We believe that some portion of our depression is self-inflicted and through the application of the twelve steps can help manage the negative thoughts and actions we undertake which contribute to our depression.

Depressed Anonymous was founded in 1985 by Hugh Smith who was battling with depression. Having had prior success with the twelve steps Hugh Smith realized that the twelve steps can be applied in managing the disease of depression.

Since 1985 Hugh Smith has written several books on the topic and published them through Depressed Anonymous Publications. Abstracts of all of the titles can be found at: https://depressedanon.com/fellowship/depressed-anonymous-literature

All titles are available in printed form, many are also available as e-books. These titles include:

•	Depressed Anonymous – a manual describing the disease of depression and describing the process of managing the disease through the Twelve Steps. Used as the Big Book for the fellowship Depressed Anonymous.

•	Depressed Anonymous Workbook – a companion text that has many probing questions related to the steps with the hope that answering these questions will reveal the truth about the source of our depression and how to step through it.

•	Dep-Anon: A 12 Step Recovery Program for Families and Friends of the Depressed – a guide for the family and friends of the depressed and how the 12 steps can assist them with dealing with the depression of their loved ones.

•	Higher Thoughts for Down Days – 365 meditations related to depression and the recovery therefrom.

•	I’ll Do It When I Feel Better – Writings on depression: Bill W and his struggle with depression; Depressed Anonymous Promises; depression and its addictive nature; depression and spirituality; meditation and prayer.

•	Believing Is Seeing: 15 Ways To Leave The Prison Of Depression – Dealing with the issues of depression; Topics for group discussion.

Depressed Anonymous has both face-to-face and virtual meetings available. https://depressedanon.com/meetings/

There are face-to-face meetings across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Virtual meetings are held every day, with some days having multiple meetings.

The Depressed Anonymous website hosts a blog https://depressedanon.com/blog/ which has multiple new posts every week. Welcome to Depressed Anonymous, welcome home.