What does recovery mean to you?

This year’s contest will focus on the personal journey each of us must travel while living with depression or bipolar disorder—and the ups and downs that lead to recovery.

Share your story in a way as unique as you are:

	Deliver a personal monologue.		Act out a play with friends.
	Sing it in a song.		Use illustration or animation.
	Say it with a poem.		Create a comedy act.


The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance hosted the first DBSA “Facing Us” Video contest in 2007 along with the launch of its “Facing Us,” a national campaign to highlight the "face" of depression and bipolar disorder and to supply tools to those "facing" the challenges of living with these illnesses. The Facing Us Clubhouse, on FacingUs.org, houses a variety of personal, interactive wellness tools as well as a multi-media room featuring inspirational, videos, audio clips, artwork and music.		DBSA is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses, depression and bipolar disorder. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life- threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically-based tools and information. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments, and discover a cure.