Websites:

• Reconnect (We’re the inclusive members’ club where you can talk and be heard. Through courses, workshops, group exercise classes, social events and community space, we help people to understand and grow from life’s challenges.) 

Research mentioned:

• Understanding Depression: Why adults experience depression and what can help 
• Survey About Depression from Reconnect: A survey conducted through Reconnect, where over 1,000 people anonymously shared their experiences online about what caused their depression. 
• Somatic Experiencing (Somatic Experiencing is a form of alternative therapy aimed at treating trauma and stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response through bottom-up)

Videos:

• Understanding my depression | Joe Tudor | TEDxNHS (When Joe Tudor first went to see his doctor, he believed his depression was the result of a problem with his brain. What Joe discovered challenged everything he thought he knew about depression and mental health. Through research, open conversations, and a commitment to personal growth, Joe discovered a more evidence-based and hopeful approach to depression.)

Books: 

• Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth (In Chemically Imbalanced, renowned psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the history of the serotonin theory of depression, from its origins in the 1960s to its widespread acceptance in the 1990s.)
• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”)
• Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope (There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question.)
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.)
• Warp & Weft; psycho-emotional health, politics and experiences by Lisa Fannen (Warp & Weft gathers together ideas, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts.)

Podcast episodes:

• How to Treat Depression Without Meds | Dr. David Burns (Stanford psychiatrist Dr. David Burns explains how to cure depression, why antidepressants don’t work, and how to treat depression without meds.)

People mentioned:

• Joanna Moncrieff (Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and academic. She is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and a leading figure in the Critical Psychiatry Network.)
• Dr. Peter Levine (Peter Alan Levine is an American psychotraumatologist, biophysicist and psychologist. As a psychotherapist, he offers lectures, advanced training and seminars on Somatic Experiencing he founded worldwide. He described his understanding of coherence with the acronym SIBAM.)
• Dr. David Burns (David D. Burns is an American psychiatrist and adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine.)
• Bessel van der Kolk (Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of four books, including The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score which was translated into 43 languages.)