‘Self care is an integral part of daily life and is all about you taking responsibility for your own health and well-being with support from the people involved in your care. Self care includes the actions you take for yourself every day in order to stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health, prevent illness or accidents and care more effectively for minor ailments and long term conditions. People living with long term conditions can benefit enormously from being supported to self care – they can live longer, have less pain, anxiety, depression and fatigue, have a better quality of life and be more active and independent.’
NHS UK, Living with Depression website.

The Building Resilience programme acts on this premise of self care. It aims to educate participants by giving them an overview of some of the treatments that can help to improve one’s health and wellbeing especially when faced with depression or low moods.

Building Your Resilience recognises that people would like the ability to choose their own path to wellbeing and happiness even if they are battling through depression. The Building Resilience Towards Depression course is simply bringing together information sources to enable participants to make informed, effective choices about their health.