Welcome to the Making Sense Of: Depression, Stress and Anxiety project home page. The project is an exciting opportunity to engage in creative and innovative inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research dialogues which aim to identify and explore the rapidly expanding and worryingly increasing conditions of depression, stress and anxiety (DSA) as they affect the way people live and think today. The implications for clinicians, healers, patients and care givers will also be assessed.

The project will take as its starting point the view that depression, stress and anxiety are multi-layered phenomena present in all levels and aspects of human living. Understanding these phenomena necessarily involves understanding all the various contexts in which a person lives and works. DSA has components which belong to a person’s age, gender, ethnicity, social group, work place; each component combines to interact with the others. Inter- and multi-disciplinary insights and perspectives are required to begin to form a holistic understanding of DSA in the context of persons, interpersonal relationships and their living environments.