User:Mostly Zen/Template:Depression Invite



Hi there, I noticed that you are in the category Depressed Wikipedians. I have also suffered from Depression (am ok at the moment luckily) and I am one of the administrators on The Psychology Wiki. As part of our project we are asking users to share their experiences of depression by writing a brief history of their experience, how they felt, their experiences of counselling and medication, as well as recovery and relapse. For example: Unhappy Larry/Experience & Mostly Zen/Experience

Understandably this is quote personal stuff, so we are allowing people to submit the experiences using an Alias User account (what Wikipedia calls sockpuppets) just for the experience writing. If you want to contribute in other ways to our Wiki you will be allowed a second account, for this purpose only.

Once the experience page is uploaded, you can ask an Administrator to protect the page for you, which will ensure that no other users can edit that page (though they can still discuss it on the talk page). We will follow standard psychology ethical guidelines of confidentiality, anonymity and withdrawal. This means that no-one will know who you are and that you can have the experience page removed at any time should you wish.

I hope you can help us with our wiki, either in this way or by contributing to our other articles. Eventually we want to have all of the discipline of Psychology on our Wiki, as well as peoples experiences of depression, and other illnesses such as Bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia etc... The idea is that by sharing experiences of distress and recovery we can help one another (and the psychologists) to understand how best to help people recover.

Here are our Depression related articles:
 * Depression Article
 * User Experiences Index
 * Depression Experiences Index

I hope you get well from your depression, it made my life miserable for a while but I am (mostly) better now :)

Mostly Zen