Welcome back!

This is the final module of the Project CURB website. For those of you who have completed the entire program, we hope you've learned to recognize and change negative patterns of thinking and behaving in order to decrease the chance of depression. We hope that these skills will help you to work more effectively with the challenges of moving into adulthood and doing so with a sense of community.

The purpose of this module is to teach you how to recognize the signs of clinical depression so you will know when to seek treatment. Although our goal is to prevent as many persons as possible from developing depression, we know that some individuals will experience an episode of depression in adolescence or young adulthood. This is not your fault. The best way to prevent depression from damaging your life is to make behavioral changes early on to prevent it from developing or to seek treatment as soon as possible.

We will teach you the signs of depression and how to tell the everyday blues from something more serious. We will also focus on effective treatment options and other common concerns. Finally, we will review how to stop the depression spiral early on.