This website is part of the national awareness campaign on depression, launched on 28 November 2017. The campaign is part of the implementation of the National Suicide Prevention Plan for Luxembourg (2015 to 2019) and has several objectives:

1. Improve knowledge about depression in the general public. The campaign intends to inform about the symptoms, causes, and treatment of depression and to encourage care seeking. Even though depression is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses, there is little awareness of it among the general public, and it is often poorly understood. Depression can affect anyone: people at any age, in any profession, and in any social class; men, women, and also children.
2. Create awareness that depression is a serious mental illness. Everyone can feel sad, discouraged, or downhearted, but that does not mean that they are suffering from depression. Continuous, severe depression can cause great suffering and affects every area of life: daily tasks, professional obligations, leisure activities, and social interactions. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide. About 70% of those who died from suicide suffered from depression. There is broad consensus that depression is one of the most common diseases and also one of the most underdiagnosed.
3. Reduce stigmatization and discrimination associated with depression. Prejudice too often associates depression with a personal weakness rather than a real illness. This can discourage people going through depression from asking for help, getting information, accepting the diagnosis, and following a treatment. Prevailing prejudices against depression are to be reduced by means of targeted and proper information.