What makes a person at risk for depression?

Depressed feelings can, in some cases, spiral downward into something called “clinical depression”. Our goal is to teach you how to reverse that spiral.

There are some risk factors that you can change and some that you can't. Don't worry if you have a risk factor that you can't change-focus on the factors you can change. Here some factors you can change:

• Lack of involvement with community-that is, doing things that help you and others
• Not having enough fun activities with family and friends
• Too much negative thinking-making the worst of every situation
• Always blaming yourself for things you cannot control
• Problems communicating with friends and family
• Not having enough support from friends and family

This program can teach you how to change the risk factors that you can control. You may feel that only one of these risk factors applies to you. That's okay-focus on the one factor you think makes most sense and may be easiest to change.