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The depression app from Best Health gives you information you can rely on about depression. Everyone gets low from time to time, but if you feel down a lot of the time you may be depressed. Depression is an illness, and there are some good treatments which can help you feel better. With up-to-date, reliable, plain English information from the Best Health depression app, you’ll be able to make the most informed choices about your treatment.

With so many websites and apps offering conflicting information about health, it's difficult to know who to trust. The Best Health apps are produced by the internationally respected BMJ Group, publisher of the British Medical Journal, and have been awarded the Department of Health's Information Standard quality mark. They're based on the same high-quality medical trials that doctors rely on themselves, and are regularly updated.

So, with the depression app from Best Health you're guaranteed a trustworthy and up-to-date source of information. It can make the difficult decisions about treatment easier, and includes helpful sections like:

•What is depression?
•What are the symptoms of depression?
•How do doctors diagnose depression?
•What treatments work for depression?
•Which anti depressants are safest if you’re pregnant?
•What are the non-drug options, such as talking therapy?
•What does the research really say about complementary medicine?
•What lifestyle changes can bring about improvements in depression?
•How common is depression?
•Why has depression affected me?
•What will happen to me?

The app also included suggested questions to raise with your doctor, and tells you how depression is usually treated by the NHS.

The app explains medical terms in plain English – we've been awarded the Plain English Campaign’s Crystal Mark. You can use the app to help you talk to your doctor and decide which treatments are best for you.