Knock Out Depression

Knock Out Depression is a group that helps you to feel like YOU again. When asking for help with depression, treatment options are often limited to antidepressants and talking therapy, which may take time to access. 

Knock Out Depression helps you to actually understand depression, and to find the combination of tools that work for you, so that you can get back to being you and start to smile and enjoy life again.

There is no 'magic pill' or one-size-fits-all solution. We'll be your cornerman, supporting you to understand the opponent that is beating you down, and helping you find the right combination to come back punching. We care, we've been there and we get it! We believe that nobody should have to fight alone. 

We will help you to:

• Knock out stigma, by challenging the myths and misconceptions that can make you beat yourself up and feel ashamed to struggle. 
• Know the opponent and how it affects you, and recognise that depression is not a weakness, a character flaw - or any other such rubbish - but an illness, and one that can be beaten.
• Know yourself, your attributes, stressors, how you thrive, and what gives you a sense of meaning and purpose, so you can know what a healthy and fulfilling life looks like for you.
• Implement the fight plan - there is no 'one-size-fits-all', we help you to recognise different ways you can fight depression and find the combination that works best for you.

The course is for dads and male carers and involves practical and theory work in two hour-long sessions, over seven weeks. Each week covers a different subject, so don't worry if you can't make the whole seven weeks - come along to one and see if you like it, or dip in and out of the sessions as you need to.

Our first course runs between 10.00am and 12noon at Horden Family Hub 

Spaces are limited. To get involved Contact support for dads.