About Us

At Surviving Depression Inc. our mission is to save lives, promote mental illness awareness and advocate for those struggling to navigate through the mental healthcare system.  Through outreach, speaking, education, research and our own personal experience we will save lives. Millions suffer from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Tens of thousands will commit suicide this year and even more will consider it. Children and adults alike will see ending their life as the only option to end their hidden agony. Millions will turn to drugs and alcohol as a way to cope with their mental anguish. We aim to push mental health out into the light and expose the torment that is felt by tens of millions. Mental health issues know no race, gender, religion or ethnicity, it is blind to age or socio-economic status. Mental health issues know no land or continent, it is a global concern. Leaving sadness, second guessing, and more depression in its wake, suicide has become an epidemic of colossal proportion and requires the utmost attention. Our founder, Bo Hachtel has lived with life-long depression. Bo brings his own life experience to this fight and does the hardest thing in the history of mental health issues to do; talk publicly about it. Not only is it possible to survive mental health issues, we can THRIVE.