The Bernese Alliance against Depression BBgD is a cantonal network for improving the care and living situation of people suffering from depression and their relatives as well as for suicide prevention in the canton of Bern. Depression is a treatable illness that can affect anyone, regardless of age, profession or social status. This website provides information about the illness depression, counselling centres, events and self-help activities.

Burnout (English: "to burn out") is a collective term and stands for an emotional, mental and physical state of exhaustion characterised by a lack of drive and performance, typically at the end of a "vicious circle" of overwork and excessive demands that lasts for months or even years.

Concept and objective

Crisis intervention (KIZ), with its outpatient and short-term inpatient services, offers people in extraordinary life situations the opportunity for talks and psychiatric treatment as a supplement to emergency psychiatric services.