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Speaking books by SADAG

"Imagine looking at this article and only understanding the images. Being illiterate limits the information you can access, and in Africa, one in five people cannot read. Enter Speaking Books, an inventive health tool that was recognised with a United Nations prize for information and communication technology in May. Praised as a world first, each 16-page book relays essential health-related information on a variety of topics, ranging from malaria and tuberculosis to HIV and Aids. Conceptualised by local NGO South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), the free books are clearly worded with culturally relevant illustrations and a soundtrack of the text in various languages, including Zulu, Mandarin and Hindi. According to SADAG founder Zane Wilson, 27 people "read" each title and of these, 97 percent requested more books. To sponsor a series of books for  home-based care workers, call 011 262 6396 or e-mail zane1@hargray.com

Mental illness & kids not a joke!

Depression

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# Article Title
1 Seasonal Affective Disorder- Winter Blues
2 Who is at risk for Depression? What are the symptoms? How do you treat it?
3 Self Support vs. Self Destruction
4 Dr Rykie Liebenberg talks Women's Mental Health
5 An Integrated Approach to treating Depression
6 Having to deal with Depression in the spotlight of fame
7 Middle-Aged Men and Depression
8 Depression and your marriage
9 Burnt out? Extinguish it now!
10 The Best Internet Health Solutions Revealed
11 Men & Depression
12 Preparing your children for change
13 How to get through the pre-teen years (tweens)
14 Is the man in your life depressed?
15 DEPRESSION:SHOULD YOU MEDICATE
16 Nuwe Hoop?
17 The most dangerous thought is, that your suffering alone
18 Are your kids ok?
19 Antidepressante: wie moet dit voorskryf
20 Mpho- a personal story on how he conquered depression
21 Deciphering mental health disorders
22 Dump your depression
23 Your partner's health can affect your own
24 Depression – a global problem
25 Dealing with unemployment
26 Dealing with Depression: knowing the signs to help yourself or a loved one
27 SA ACTRESS CONFRONTS HER DEMONS OF DEPRESSION
28 Actress Bonnie Henna talks about the stigma attached to depression
29 Overcoming the Winter Comfort Eating Trap
30 Managing Mental Health at Work
31 Just feeling sad or is it something more serious?
32 Depression and Diabetes
33 Mental illness cannot be willed away
34 Technology and Internet help for Mood Disorders
35 Identifying Teen Depression
36 What you need to know about underwriting depression and insurance policies
37 Dragged down by chronic illness
38 Recession depression: Change the way you think
39 Burger (Oos Kaap)
40 SADAG platform and our involvement with depression
41 Culture deals African men Depression Card
42 Equip your child with in School & Teen Years
43 Feeling Blue isn't Taboo
44 Clinical Depression and a new approach to treatment
45 Treat or Refer Depressed Patients?
46 Out of the Blue: Discussing Depressive Disorder
47 Chronic Illness and Depression
48 Surviving Suburbia – living with depression and burnout
49 Pain and Depression
50 Randfontein Herald - Depression Overview
51 Depression - Vrouekeur
52 Teenage Depression
53 Verhoudings
54 Understanding symptoms of severe manic depression
55 Depression: The Black Hole - How to get out
56 Lig jou Kind uit Depressie
57 Oorkom Depressie ondanks jou omstandighede
58 Cosmopolitan – Successful but Depressed
59 The black hole
60 Panic Disorder and Depression Can Be Treated Over the Internet
61 perinatal health and depression in C.T.
62 Depression and Anxiety Support Group
63 DEPRESSIE ALLES WAT JY WIL WEE"
64 DEPRESSIE ALLES
65 HULPOPJOUTELEFOON
66 Ek is daardeur en anderkant uit'
67 LouiiHlo root/re (53) is 'n argitektekenaar en ma van twee tieners
68 Vat jou geluk terug
69 Pregnancy: Some Depression Relief, Without Drugs
70 Depression’s Upside
71 Depression and Aids, Double Stigma
72 Your Pregnancy and Depression
73 ' I hope speaking about depression will help break the taboo.'
74 Popular Drugs May Help Only Severe Depression
75 Teen depression 'linked to sleep'
76 Depression, Suicidal Ideation More Likely in Adolescents With Late vs Earlier Set Bedtimes
77 Psychologist to examine childhood depression
78 Anti-depressants 'up stroke risk'
79 PATIENTS AS PARTNERS
80 Most antidepressants miss key target of clinical depression
81 SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF DIABETES
82 Diabetes and Depression A devastating duo
83 Depression and Anxiety Support Group
84 Disabling cost of depresion
85 Fear of Worrying Linked to Depression
86 Seek help for your depression
87 Depression and Anxiety Support Group
88 What Science Is Discovering About Exercise and Depression
89 What Science Is Discovering About Exercise and Depression
90 Treatment-Resistant Depression
91 Symptoms of Postpartum Blues or Depression
92 No-Cost Ways to Treat Depression Yourself
93 New Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic Offers Noninvasive Treatment For Major Depression
94 Diabetes and Depression
95 Biomarker For Rapid Relief Of Major Depression
96 Ketamine Reduces Suicidality In Depressed Patients, Study Suggests
97 HIV and Suicide
98 No more cutting
99 Seventeen- Teen depression
100 A Brief Behavioral Intervention Can Reduce Depression in Stroke Survivors
101 Low on Life
102 n Swart gat word n geleentheid
103 The great depression
104 There is light at the end of the tunnel for winter bluessufferers
105 Children Who Are Depressed, Anxious Or Aggressive In First Grade Risk Being Victimized Later On
106 Antidepressant Drug Development Is Skewed
107 Post Natal Depression
108 A journey through darkness of depression
109 Depression: you don't have to live with it
110 The poor less likely to seek help
111 If you're poor, you are very likely to be depressed
112 Postnatal Depression High among Poor
113 Death of a Loved One
114 Shape Magazine Depression Article April 2009
115 Indian Men Driven to Depression
116 Homosexuals, Depression and Suicide
117 Are You Depressed or Just Down?
118 Seasonal Affective Disorder
119 Working Through Clinical Depression
120 EMPLOYERS BATTLE WORKER DEPRESSION
121 WHY DEPRESSION TARGETS WOMEN
122 Vitamins help treat depression
123 TRUE STORIES OF CAREER WOMEN WHO BEAT DEPRESSION
124 Therapy: Does It Ever End?
125 THE MASKED EPIDEMIC OF MALE DEPRESSION
126 THE LINK BETWEEN UNEMPLOYMENT AND DEPRESSION
127 Teen girls more prone to depression, study says
128 Talk, Drug Therapies Have Similar Effect
129 SUPPORT GROUP WORKS IN CONJUNCTION WITH WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
130 SUPPORT GROUP LAUNCHES NEW MEDIA AWARD
131 SUPPORT GROUP HOSTS FIRST MEDIA CONFERENCE
132 SUPPORT GROUPS COUNSELLORS RECEIVE TRAINING IN HIV/AIDS COUNSELLING
133 Suicide Thoughts Treatable in Depressed Elderly
134 SUGAR BLUES
135 STRESS, DEPRESSION AND OTHER ILLNESSES
136 Sleep deprivation leaves teens prone to depression, study says
137 SENIOR’S HOLIDAY BLUES
138 SAD: BEATING THE WINTER WOES
139 SA MENTAL HEALTH HONOURS ELI LILLY AND DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUP
140 RETURNING TO WORK AFTER DEPRESSION
141 Real Men. Real Depression.
142 PUT INSOMNIA TO BED
143 PREVENT DEPRESSION IN YOUR CHILD
144 POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
145 POST-NATAL DEPRESSION - NOT A BUNDLE OF JOY
146 PERSONAL STIGMA OF DEPRESSION IN SOUTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
147 News of SADAG in the Press
148 More suicides in December than any other month
149 CBT ILLUMINATED AS A SUCCESFUL TREATMENT FOR PTSD
150 Mental Health: Double-Teaming Depression
151 MENOPAUSE: A CAUSE FOR DEPRESSION?
152 Real men don’t get depression: one mans struggle with a myth
153 SHOULD YOU MEDICATE YOUR DEPRESSED CHILD?
154 LOSING SLEEP? COULD THE CAUSE BE DEPRESSION OR ANXIETY?
155 Internet education can alleviate depression
156 Inflammation and Depression in the Elderly
157 IDENTIFYING DEPRESSION IN THE WORKPLACE
158 HOW TO BEAT CLINICAL DEPRESSION
159 HOW THE BLUES AFFECTS YOUR BODY IMAGE
160 WHEN HIV/AIDS TURNS TO DEPRESSION – WHO HELPS?
161 Depression – A Heartfelt Response
162 Grief and Grieving
163 GRIEVING: A TIME OF GROWTH
164 DEPRESSION AND GENDER: IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?
165 FOOD AND MOOD
166 FESTIVE STRESS
167 EVEN CELEBRITIES GET THE BLUES
168 EMPLOYER'S GUIDE TO DEFEATING DEPRESSION
169 DYSTHYMIA: THE MOST DISABLING DEPRESSION
170 Do you know somebody who may be depressed
171 DEPRESSION AND DIVORCE
172 Depression, Pain Connection Should Be Assessed in Elderly
173 ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND ASTHMA
174 DEPRESSION IN BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS
175 Depression and Women
176 DEPRESSION AND THE ELDERLY
177 DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE
178 Depression and Smoking
179 Public Gets the Message: Pain Not Just Physical
180 DEPRESSION AND DIABETES: A DISTRESSING DUO
181 Depression after stroke
182 Emory study finds depression has negative impact on CABG outcome
183 Depression - The Invisible Disease
184 DEPRESSION – COSTS TO BUSINESS
185 Depressed? Diabetic? Drug Patches Moving Past Pain
186 Depressed moms want pediatricians to hear them
187 Depressed Mind Responds Differently to Different Therapies
188 DEPRESSED BUT STILL SUCCESFUL IN THE WORKING WORLD – THREE TRUE STORIES.
189 Culture, History Can Keep Blacks From Getting Depression Treatment
190 Mental arena is new battle front
191 “COWBOYS DON’T CRY”–Mental Illness in Men
192 Cost to Treat a Depression Case Falls
193 Schizophrenia:Co-Morbid Anxiety & Depression
194 Cilexa Safely Curbs Depression in the Young
195 DESPAIR AND DEPRESSION AT CHRISTMAS
196 COPING WITH DEPRESSION OVER CHRISTMAS
197 CAN THE ELDERLY ESCAPE DEPRESSION ?
198 Biggest Radio Campaign for Mental Health
199 BEAT CLINICAL DEPRESSION
200 Battling with Panic & Depression at the same time
201 Attention drawn to Depression in the elderly
202 ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND BREAST CANCER
203 Advancing the treatment of depression

Emergency lines

Suicide Crisis Line
8am-8pm
0800 567 567
SMS 31393

Pharmadynamics Police and Trauma Line
8am-8pm
0800 20 50 26

AstraZeneca Bipolar Line
8am-8pm
0800 70 80 90

Sanofi Aventis Sleep Line
8am-8pm
0800-SLEEPY ( 0800 753 379)

Department of Social Development Substance Abuse Line
24hr helpline
0800 12 13 14
SMS 32312

SADAG Mental Health Line
8am-8pm
011 262 6396

Dr Reddy's Help Line
8am-8pm
0800 21 22 23

Akeso psychiatric reponse unit
Gauteng Emergencies 24 hour
010 040 HELP (4357)


Journalists

If you are a journalist writing a story contact Cassey on 011 262 6396.

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Speaking books

Click on this link to find out more about the Speaking Books - the brain child of the South African Depression and Anxiety Group. The Speaking Books are educational and instructional tools aimed at low level literacy populations.

The sales of the Speaking Books help fund SADAG's many phone lines.

Support groups

If you are interested in starting a Support Group, please contact Dessy on (011) 262 6396. Click here to download the Support Group pack.

To find a Support Group in your area, please phone SADAG on (011) 262 6396.

Stress and Burnout

Dr Colinda Linde psychologist , Chairman of SADAG and Richard Hawkey, business man and writer discuss Managing stress in the workplace.

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