Patient and advocacy organizations

Last verified: 2026-08-31

Each entry was checked by direct HTTP retrieval in this session. A successful page fetch verifies a public web presence, not service quality, governance, financial health or national reach.

Master table

Organization	Region	Scope	Fetch result	Source
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)	United States	Peer support and education for depression and bipolar disorder	HTTP 200; title “DBSA - Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance”	https://www.dbsalliance.org/, accessed 2026-08-30
International Bipolar Foundation (IBPF)	International / US-based	Bipolar-focused public education and community resources	HTTP 403 anti-bot interstitial; domain/title resolved	https://ibpf.org/, accessed 2026-08-31
Bipolar UK	United Kingdom	Bipolar-specific peer support, information and advocacy	HTTP 200; title “Bipolar support and information”	https://www.bipolaruk.org/, accessed 2026-08-30
Bipolar Scotland	Scotland	Bipolar-specific charity and support	HTTP 200 on audit re-fetch; title “Bipolar Scotland - Scotland's Bipolar Charity” (the same day's sweep retrieval returned 403)	https://www.bipolarscotland.org.uk/, accessed 2026-08-31
Bipolar Australia	Australia	National bipolar-focused information and advocacy	HTTP 200; title “Home — Bipolar Australia”	https://www.bipolaraustralia.org.au/, accessed 2026-08-30
Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC)	Canada	National mood-disorder advocacy and education	HTTP 200; title “Mood Disorders Society of Canada — Help Us Improve Mental Health in Canada”	https://mdsc.ca/, accessed 2026-08-30
GAMIAN-Europe	Europe	Pan-European mental-health patient advocacy network	HTTP 200; title “Home — GAMIAN-Europe”	https://www.gamian.eu/, accessed 2026-08-30
South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG)	South Africa	Mental-health education, support and crisis resources	HTTP 200; title “Home”	https://www.sadag.org/, accessed 2026-08-30
Bipolar India	India	Peer-led bipolar community and education	HTTP 200; title “For Peers, by Peers”	https://www.bipolarindia.com/, accessed 2026-08-30
Japanese Alliance of Bipolar Disorder (JABD) / Nautilus Association	Japan	Bipolar-specific nonprofit, peer and family meetings and public information	HTTP 200; title identifies JABD and the Nautilus Association	https://bipolar-disorder.or.jp/, accessed 2026-08-30
Asociación Colombiana del Trastorno Bipolar	Colombia	Bipolar-specific association, information and accompaniment	HTTP 200; official association title resolved	https://bipolaresco.org/, accessed 2026-08-30
ABRATA	Brazil	Depression/bipolar peer and family support and psychoeducation	HTTP 200; title “ABRATA”	https://www.abrata.org.br/site2025/, accessed 2026-08-30
FUBIPA	Argentina	Civil mutual-aid organization for people with bipolar disorder, families and friends	HTTP 200; “Quienes somos — FUBIPA”	https://fubipa.org.ar/quienes-somos/, accessed 2026-08-30

Organization profiles

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

• Region: United States.
• Population: people living with depression or bipolar disorder and peers/families seeking support.
• Public role verified at homepage level: depression- and bipolar-specific alliance, education and support identity.
• Research use: recruitment and patient-partner contact may be possible, but any collaboration requires separate verification and consent.
• Source: (DBSA — homepage, https://www.dbsalliance.org/, accessed 2026-08-30).

International Bipolar Foundation

• Region: international-facing, US-based.
• Population: people affected by bipolar disorder, families and public audiences.
• Verification caveat: automated retrieval returned an HTTP 403 anti-bot page. The official domain and organization identity resolved, but specific program claims were not extracted and should be rechecked interactively.
• Source: (International Bipolar Foundation — homepage, https://ibpf.org/, accessed 2026-08-30).

Bipolar UK

• Region: United Kingdom.
• Public role: bipolar-specific support and information.
• The site exposes a public support-group directory, separately retrieved at https://www.bipolaruk.org/Pages/Category/support-groups with HTTP 200 and title “Find a support group.”
• Research relevance: bipolar-specific national network and potential route for patient involvement; actual research programs require page-level verification.
• Sources: (Bipolar UK — homepage and support-groups page, accessed 2026-08-30).

Bipolar Scotland

• Region: Scotland.
• Public identity: Scotland's bipolar charity.
• Distinct listing is justified because devolved service and advocacy context differs from UK-wide infrastructure.
• Source: (Bipolar Scotland — homepage, https://www.bipolarscotland.org.uk/, accessed 2026-08-31; HTTP 200 on the audit re-fetch, after a 403 on the same day's sweep retrieval — the 403 was a request-level anti-bot response, not a site-availability signal).

Bipolar Australia

• Region: Australia.
• Public identity: bipolar-specific national organization.
• Program detail was not inferred beyond the directly resolved public homepage; future sweeps should fetch service and governance pages individually.
• Source: (Bipolar Australia — homepage, https://www.bipolaraustralia.org.au/, accessed 2026-08-30).

Mood Disorders Society of Canada

• Region: Canada.
• Scope: mood disorders broadly, including bipolar disorder.
• Verification result: direct retrieval returned HTTP 200 and resolved the title “Mood Disorders Society of Canada — Help Us Improve Mental Health in Canada.”
• Source: (Mood Disorders Society of Canada — homepage, https://mdsc.ca/, accessed 2026-08-30).

GAMIAN-Europe

• Region: pan-European.
• Scope: mental-health patient advocacy rather than bipolar disorder alone.
• Value to this directory: cross-country patient representation and policy context where no single bipolar-specific European umbrella was verified.
• Source: (GAMIAN-Europe — homepage, https://www.gamian.eu/, accessed 2026-08-30).

South African Depression and Anxiety Group

• Region: South Africa.
• Scope: depression, anxiety and wider mental health; included because it provides a verified national public mental-health route in a region underrepresented in the scholarly patient-voice literature.
• Specific crisis/service details should be refreshed directly before use because contact information is time-sensitive.
• Source: (SADAG — homepage, https://www.sadag.org/, accessed 2026-08-30).

Bipolar India

• Region: India.
• Public identity: “For Peers, by Peers.”
• Inclusion provides a verified bipolar-specific peer perspective outside Europe, North America and Australia.
• Program reach and governance were not independently assessed.
• Source: (Bipolar India — homepage, https://www.bipolarindia.com/, accessed 2026-08-30).

Japanese Alliance of Bipolar Disorder / Nautilus Association

• Region: Japan.
• Public identity: nonprofit Japanese bipolar-disorder alliance; the official site describes peer meetings, family meetings, lectures and consultation routes.
• The homepage displayed current August 2026 updates during retrieval, supporting an active public presence; this does not independently verify service quality or nationwide reach.
• Source: (JABD / Nautilus Association — homepage, https://bipolar-disorder.or.jp/, accessed 2026-08-30).

Asociación Colombiana del Trastorno Bipolar

• Region: Colombia.
• Public identity: bipolar-specific association providing public information, events and accompaniment.
• The official homepage displayed August 2026 activities during retrieval; program outcomes and reach were not independently assessed.
• Source: (Asociación Colombiana del Trastorno Bipolar — homepage, https://bipolaresco.org/, accessed 2026-08-30).

ABRATA

• Region: Brazil.
• Public identity: nonprofit association for people living with depression or bipolar disorder and their families, with peer-support and psychoeducation functions described on its own site.
• Inclusion broadens the directory beyond English-language sources; current service availability requires page-level checking before referral.
• Source: (ABRATA — homepage, https://www.abrata.org.br/site2025/, accessed 2026-08-30).

FUBIPA

• Region: Argentina.
• Public identity: civil mutual-aid organization complementing clinical care with free groups for people with bipolar disorder, families and friends.
• The organization’s own “Quienes somos” page was directly retrieved; service quality and geographic coverage were not independently evaluated.
• Source: (FUBIPA — about page, https://fubipa.org.ar/quienes-somos/, accessed 2026-08-30).

Geographic gaps

The 2026-08-30 multilingual re-search corrected the prior stale absence: bipolar-specific public organizations were directly verified in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Japan. No bipolar-specific organization was verified from an organization-owned site in the Middle East, mainland China, Korea or most of Africa in this dated focused sweep. That is a coverage gap in this directory, not evidence that none exists; future searches should continue in Arabic, Mandarin, Korean and African regional languages and should not treat social-platform posts as organizational verification.

Maintenance cautions

• Do not label an organization “national” solely because its name suggests national scope.
• Do not reproduce crisis contact details without a same-day page fetch.
• Retain HTTP failures and anti-bot blocks as provenance, not as evidence of inactivity.
• Recheck redirects and successor organizations at every literature sweep.