About Us

The Reawakening Center is an Internet-based tool for people, who are experiencing depression (or are at high risk of depression), and for their friends and family. Developed under the guidance of the Aetna Behavioral Health team, this website is owned by Aetna Inc. and can be accessed through the public URL www.reawake.com.

The Reawakening Center is a user-friendly website designed to provide information to individuals diagnosed with depression. Depressed individuals commonly have difficulty concentrating and may not be able to focus on long text passages. Online communication is a powerful way to reach such individuals. The Reawakening Center engages users with short blurbs and animations that provide the opportunity to respond quickly. The site's upbeat, colorful illustrations and creative graphics will be especially helpful for individuals who have difficulty concentrating.

The Online Coaching section features interactive tools that challenge the depressed person's thinking patterns and may help ease distorted thoughts. The Online Coaching tools use artwork, characters and metaphor to encourage new ways of thinking. We seek to use creativity to help individuals confront the challenges of living with depression.

The Library provides more than 20 text articles covering many aspects of dealing with depression and other life issues, including medications, psychotherapy, handling stress, managing anger, overcoming procrastination, exercise, support groups, meditation and yoga, coping with a bad day, and much more. Each article is easy to read and to the point. Most are beautifully illustrated.

You'll also find a quick depression self-test, which can help you determine if you are at risk of depression.

In addition, check out the Weekly Wake-up Call. Here you'll find ideas, tips and insights to help you cope with depression and give your mood a lift. We promise to keep it short and to the point.

To make your visit to the Reawakening Center user-friendly, you'll also find a site tour, a search box and a site index.

Aetna Behavioral Health wants to provide a website for people with depression that respects and honors their ability to take steps to address depression. With our Online Coaching tools, we hope to engage users to employ a thought process that may help them as they seek ways to overcome depression and make decisions about treatment. Hopefully, you will find the information on this site easy to understand and encouraging.

The Reawakening Center is built on industry-standard software and hardware. Our web-server application has been developed to avoid interruptions in service. If something malfunctions, backup components continue to keep the site operating. Our systems are located at a secure, offsite data center, which gives us one-hop access to the Internet backbone and to other carrier (ISP) networks, keeping us available to site users. This data center provides our systems with security, continuous power, plenty of bandwidth and protection from typical environmental disturbances. We routinely monitor the capacity and use of our resources so we can develop additional capacity, when possible, before problems occur.