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Blues Busters
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Blues Busters is a self-help group for people suffering from depression. Our fundamental belief is that depressed people can help themselves and each other by the very fact of their shared affliction. We meet together for mutual help and support from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm each Monday at The Goodwin Centre, Icehouse Road, off Anlaby Road, Hull. Feel free to just drop in.
The only money Blues Busters Self Help Group receives is from grants we have applied for. If anyone feels as if they would like to support us by making a donation to help people suffering from depression we would be extremely grateful.
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Depression help
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Blues Busters has a genuine interest in the welfare of each person who comes to the group, and a willingness to listen to them, thus fostering an atmosphere in which members can find out for themselves how best they can cope, and improve. This is not a one-way traffic, for the newest member, even though they may not realise it, will be helping the others. In the small secure group of fellow sufferers, everyone is free to learn, if they wish, free from external pressures for a short time, whilst for those who are really low, there is support and comfort, until they are able to be more active again.
We also see a long-term role for ourselves in helping to educate the public about the true nature of depression. It can safely be said that most people in Britain have very little understanding of what depression really is. How many of us have been told - and how many times! - to "pull up your socks", to "look on the bright side of things", to "go out and do something instead of selfishly moping over your own private miseries". Nobody yet knows what causes depression and the probability is that the causes are many and various -but everyone who has suffered knows all too well the futility of the pep-talk approach. For depression is so crippling just because it attacks the will itself. In other words, during our down periods we have been disabled at the very heart of what enables us at other times to be normally active, effective and independent people.
Because all depressives and ex-depressives are well aware of these facts, you will never hear any "pull-your-socks-up" talk around Blues Busters. What we are trying to do is to help each other recover the full use of our damaged or disabled capacities. We do this by affectionate understanding and mutual support, knowing that sometimes we may be able to do little or nothing for a fellow-sufferer, but knowing too that there are many times when we can give help, many times when we can receive help, and many times when we can do both at once.
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