German Depression League

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German Depression League
legal form registered association
founding 2009
Seat Bonn , GermanyGermanyGermany 
main emphasis Patient representation for people suffering from depression
Chair Waltraud Rinke
Website depressionsliga.de

The German Depression League (also spelled : Deutsche DepressionsLiga , DDL ) is a self-help organization for patients suffering from depression and their relatives.

history

The association was founded in 2009 as the first nationwide patient representation organized exclusively by those affected with the aim of educating people about depression, providing practical help for those affected and representing their interests. To this end, DDL conducts lobbying and press work.

Since 2011, the association, together with the German Depression Aid Foundation and the German Alliance against Depression, has organized the Depression Patient Congress in Leipzig every two years, which has so far been attended by between 1,000 and 1,500 people.

Positions

The association is committed to ensuring that patients suffering from depression should receive help as quickly as possible. The DDL therefore particularly criticizes the long waiting times when looking for treatment. Because of their illness, many sufferers are not able to undertake the lengthy search for a therapy place. Since January 2010, the association has been offering advice by e-mail and using databases to help them find information on the subject of depression.

organization

The non-profit registered association based in Kassel is financed by membership fees, donations and contributions from the statutory health insurances for project financing.

Torsten Sträter has been the patron since 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Depression League: Statutes (PDF). Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The board of the Deutsche DepressionsLiga eV. Accessed on September 26, 2019 . }
  3. ↑ Elfi Schramm: Pressure leads to depression. New self-help organization sees those affected as advisors. In: New Germany. December 8, 2009. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b DPA: Depression: Congress should help those affected. In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. August 29, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ German Depression League: DepressionsLiga: 1st Depression Patient Congress a complete success - and hopefully not a flash in the pan. Press release. October 13, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists: Statutory Health Insurance Supply Structure Act: Dismantling of practices averted by 2013. Weeks-long search for therapy places overwhelm mentally ill people. December 1, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  7. ^ "Thought aloud" with Torsten Sträter Website of the DDL, April 17th, 2019
  8. ↑ Thought aloud with Torsten Sträter. ( Web video ) In: youtube.com . Friends for Life eV , April 16, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 .