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DEPRESSED ANONYMOUS INTERNATIONAL SKYPE AND ZOOM MEETINGS
NOTICE: Whenever a blog post mentions an online meeting be sure to consult the page Online Depressed Anonymous Meetings for the most up to date and correct information. If the blog post is more than a few days old there is a chance it could be incorrect.
Updated 29 Dec 2020: The US based ZOOM meetings are no longer being held, and that information has been removed from this post.
GET CONNECTED! YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ALONE!!!!!!
ZOOM CONTACTS AUSTRALIA
ZOOM IN AUSTRALIA DEPRESSION ANONYMOUS
Go to Facebook and type in Depressed Anonymous.
MONDAYS 6:30-7:30 AEST
MEETING ID 966 940 7803
PASSWORD 497 871
INTERNATIONAL DA SKYPE MEETINGS
Meetings everyday of the week @
12:30 PM EST (NEW YORK TIME) 11:30 AM CST (CHICAGO TIME)
A call will be sent out to those joining Depressed Anonymous 5 minutes before meeting. Click onto the JOIN CALL button. And there you are.
ZOOM DAYS AND TIMES (The Sunday id code changed)
Updated 29 Dec 2020: The US based ZOOM meetings are no longer being held.
Hello,
Here are ZOOM days and times schedule.
SUNDAY MEETINGS : 4-5 PM EST
TUESDAY MEETINGS: 3-4 PM EST
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I don’t have to be alone
Updated 29 Dec 2020: The US based ZOOM meetings are no longer being held.
…I had the conviction that a person depressed could find the same strength and serenity as did those who, sick and tired of being sick and tired, had found when they stumbled into their first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. It (Depressed Anonymous) began as a pilot project at the university where depressed people gathered as a mutual aid group. I discovered that people of all ages, beliefs, and occupations could gradually get out of the prison of depression if they were part of a support group, especially if the group followed the suggested Twelve Steps of the group now known as Depressed Anonymous. I saw that a Twelve Step program centered specifically around the subject of depression could help people escape isolation and the painful sense of hopelessness. They would no longer feel alone.
Copyright(c) Depressed Anonymous., 3rd edition. (2011) Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville, Ky. Page 22.
NOTE: If you are tired of looking at the four walls during this time of Covid-19, we have help. If you are depressed and seeking relief, there are a number of places where you can go online for help. Depressed Anonymous now has a meeting everyday from 12:30PM (EST). This group is peer led, which means they have been depressed or using these Steps of recovery today to help maintain hope and healing in their lives today! These are excellent groups to attend to find help and hope. You can join and share your story or you can listen to the stories of others. Either way you will find the power at work in your own life.
There are now five scheduled DA ZOOM groups operating in the US and being made available to the Depressed around the world. These ZOOM groups with the SKYPE groups are ensuring that the message of HOPE continues to spread with it’s powerful message. Please join us if you are looking to free yourself from isolation.
We thank all of those who chair these meetings with such dedication and faithfulness. They are true witnesses to the “miracle of the group(s).”
Hugh
Isolation and Covid-19 – We Offer Skype meetings – Check Our Past Posts On The Blog Here For More Info
NOTICE: Whenever a blog post mentions an online meeting be sure to consult the page Online Depressed Anonymous Meetings for the most up to date and correct information. If the blog post is more than a few days old there is a chance it could be incorrect.
Updated 29 Dec 2020: The US based ZOOM meetings are no longer being held.
In our basic text, Depressed Anonymous, one of the words that show up most frequently are the words, Isolation, trust and surrender. It is not surprising that the word isolation is at the top of the list. Isolation is one of those behaviors that can keep us in depression, alone, and deepening a mood of feeling hopeless.
With the corona virus causing death, terror among all people of the earth, it has also forced us to quarantine ourselves from everyone else. Our isolation, in this case, can save our life and keep us from getting infected and suffer a painful death.
Let’s say I am depressed already and isolating because of my need to withdraw from, family and friends and suffer with my pain alone. What do I do now? Who and what can help me? I am feeling desperate. I used to go to the market, the park and at least get out of my apartment. I could feel part of the world and the life around me. At least I had the knowledge that I could go out and be with others, without having to talk or even say hello. Now I feel like I’m all alone on a deserted island.
If you are depressed and reading this now, you can find help online at the Depressed Anonymous website www.depressedanon.com. There are also daily meetings of the group International Online Depressed Anonymous which hosts the meeting via SKYPE meeting at 12:30 pm (EST).
We hope that you can take advantage of these peer led 12 step meetings. I recommend them to you. Please come and join our fellowship. We are people with hope.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
For the fellowship.
Welcome to the Depressed Anonymous groups in Warsaw, Poland
We wish to welcome the Depressed Anonymous groups in Warsaw, Poland. They have been around a long time and now they want to start translating the Basic Text (3rd edition) and The Workbook into Polish. Great news. Hopefully they will join us on SKYPE or ZOOM. We look forward to your presence here. Our SKYPE meetings are becoming very international and I know that they will get a warm welcome here from all of us. We all speak the same language here – hope and healing.
See you soon.
Hugh
Depressed Anonymous has a DA group in Los Angeles, CA
Here are the particulars for all those who want to attend a DA meeting in LA, CA.
Here are the particulars:
Depressed Anonymous-LA
Monday 8PM Pacific
Share Culver City
6666 Green Valley Circle
Culver City CA 90230
https://zoom.us/1/258050360
Contact:
depressionanonla@gmail.com
424-274-1221
Thank You Lionel
A red thread, a beautiful tapestry, patterns and God’s will.
Some of us, in groups and individually, work the Steps according to the month. What this means is when April 1st (4th month) arrives, we start spending quality time studying our Step #4. This Step states that we “Made a fearless moral and searching inventory of ourselves.” For many of our members, myself included, we use our Depressed Anonymous Workbook in conjunction with our Depressed Anonymous book to discover the patterns of our lives that keep us from being our best selves. The patterns have formed habits and these habits can end up becoming addictions. Could it be that these patterns of our thinking, feeling and behavior keep us imprisoned in our depression? Is it now that we feel we are continually circling around in that morass of hopelessness and helplessness? Like any addiction, we feel there is no way out.
It is here I want to quote from Maria von Trappe (Maria of musical The Sound of Music) who shared this thought:
“It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry …. in looking back we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the will of God. ” Quoted in the Publication: Give us this day. Liturgical Press. Collegeville, MN. March 26,
As I examine my life, attempting to discover that red thread, I have found that there actually is a red thread moving through my life tapestry. The red thread is there for me and it is like looking into a rear view mirror showing me where I have been on this life journey. There are these life patterns consistently appearing during the good times and the tough times of our lives. Even a pattern in which I see life as difficult and the world a dangerous place. Many of these negative patterns and fearful thoughts may start in our childhood and gradually become even more pronounced as patterns. But that red thread continues its weaving through our life tapestry into our adult lives. For some the red thread moves forward along with a pattern of pessimism, while providing us at the same time with hope. And as I look over my own past life, I see that my negativity, always following me into most of my relationships. Now as I look at the whole life tapestry as part of my fourth step inventory, stretching as it does from birth to this day, I am able to see patterns which have formed over time, crippling and making feel less than. But even during the painful times I can still see that that red thread, the will of God, has always been there operating in my life, accompanying me on my life journey, invisible, but still there like the silent whisper of the wind, providing me with hope. Now I can see that the red thread hasn’t just formed, it has been there as for long as I can remember. My present belief in a power greater than my depression is gradually setting me free. Today. Everyday.
I know how some Depressed Anonymous groups work this Fourth Step Study on an ongoing basis. For example, there are International Depressed Anonymous Skype Group meetings who come together everyday of the week on the Internet. You can access these group meeting by going to https://join.skype.com and then signing in at 2019depanon@hotmail.com. The leader for the meeting that day will sign you up and you can join the group. Meetings start at 12:30 PM Eastern Standard PM time.
Look back on your life up to today and see if you can recognize how that red thread weaving through your own life, no matter how difficult, how despairing, it is the fact that God has always been there with us and we gradually come to believe that He will always be there with us. And as a member of Depressed Anonymous I want to share with others how that red thread never abandoned me or deserted me, no matter how bad things became. And so when you do your inventory you too will discern that it has always been God’s will that the hope he provides will free you.
Hugh
My frequent contact with friends in recovery…
AFFIRMATION FOR TODAY
“My frequent contact with friends in recovery enables me to speak the language of hope to myself and to others.”
“We have shared our problems and experiences, our thoughts, feelings and sorrows, our hopes and fears, our laughter and tears. Being in a group has offered us security. It has given us a sense of belonging and the feelings of a new beginning. It is comforting to know that the journey will never have to be traveled alone. Someone will always be there, if you are ever set to fall, to encourage and support you along the way.
CLARIFICATION OF OUR THINKING
My depression thickens in the darkness of solitude; it withers gradually in the light of open and frank discussion. By my ongoing and frequent participation in Depressed Anonymous (face to face or Online DA Skype Groups) and the other Twelve Step programs of recovery, I feel that I am no longer alone and vulnerable. I know now that there are other persons out there who understand what I am feeling. I won’t hear any “snap out of it” nonsense. Usually said to us by folks who have never experienced the pain of depression. I know that the progress out of the desert of depression is slow and methodical. One Step at a time. I am willing to work on myself and I will be able to win over my depression!
But as I have been wounded by a group or individual , or my own family of origin, and those who comprised it, can now find a “surrogate” family and make a decision to choose new members of my family.
MEDITATION
God, help us to learn how to gradually express ourselves with other members of our group. We know that in helping others, we always help ourselves.”
RESOURCES
Depressed Anonymous Daily Online Skype meetings.
(c)Higher Thoughts for down days. 365 daily thoughts and meditations for members of Twelve Step fellowship groups. Depressed Anonymous Publications,. Louisville, KY. Pages 51-52. March 27.
***ONLINE DA GROUP MEETINGS EVERYDAY***
REMINDER: Everyday there is a scheduled Depressed Anonymous International Skype meeting online at 12:30PM Central Standard Time, and 1:30 Eastern Standard time. Go to your browser and type in: https://join.skype.com/ Download and sign into Skype. Search depanon@hotmail.com and send a message asking to be added to the group.
You can join with a great group of folks who are working the Depressed Anonymous program of recovery. Don’t miss it!!
Thank you.