Listed below you will find web sites specific to different topics. Please note that these sites are provided for informational purposes only. The opinions and views expressed on these sites are not necessarily those of the Anxiety Resource Center, Inc.
[ Click on each heading to explore a list of relevant links. ]
Agoraphobia
Fear about places from which escape might be difficult.
- ADAA: Agoraphobia Understanding the Facts
- Anxiety Coach: Breaking the Agoraphobia Fear Habit
- Calm Clinic: Understanding Agoraphobia and Anxiety Disorders
- Cleveland Clinic: Agoraphobia Symptoms and Treatment
- Dual Diagnosis: Agoraphobia and the Treatment of Addiction
- Mayo Clinic: Agoraphobia Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
- NIMH: Agoraphobia
- PsychCentral: A Daily Plan for Overcoming Agoraphobia
- Stories for Good: The Agoraphobic Traveller
- Tumblr: Support for People Who are Struggling with Agoraphobia
Children, Teens, Parents
Sites about anxiety and OCD tailored to children, teens, and parents.
- ADAA: Childhood Anxiety Disorders
- AACAP: FAQ's and Facts for Families of Children with Anxiety Disorders
- Camp DCO: OCD Camp for Teens and Adults
- CARES: UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support
- Child Mind Institute: How Anxiety Leads to Disruptive Behavior
- Coping Skills for Kids: Calming Anxiety
- International OCD Foundation: Talking With Kids About OCD
- International OCD Foundation: Talking With Teens About OCD
- KidsHealth: Relaxation Exercises and Breathing Basics
- KidsHealth: 5 Ways to Deal With Anxiety
- OCD Youth: A Site for Young People With OCD
- Online Colleges: Critical Mental Health Resources for College Students
- Rider University: Anxiety in Teens - Resources for Improving Mental Health
- Selective Mutism: What is Selective Mutism?
- Teen Mental Health: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- WorryWiseKids: Resources for Anxious Children and Their Families
Coronavirus and Mental Health
Providing resources that can help you manage your anxiety during uncertain times.
- ADAA: Coronavirus Anxiety Expert Tips and Resources
- ArtBar: Art and Play Activity Guide for Kids in Quarantine (week 1)
- Calm: Free Resource Page with Meditations, Music, Sleep Stories & More
- CCFC: Thriving During COVID-19: Recommended Resources for Healthy Tech Use in Quarantine
- CDC: Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19
- Center for Anxiety: Increasing Positive Emotions in the Midst of COVID-19 Crisis
- Good Morning America: Harvard Professor's Mindfulness Tips to Lower Anxiety During Coronavirus
- Hey Sigmund: What to Say to Help Kids Feel Calm When the World Feels Fragile
- HelpGuide: Coronavirus Anxiety - Coping with Stress, Fear, and Worry
- Janet Lansbury: Parenting in Anxious Times
- McLean Hospital: Caring for Your Mental Health Despite the Coronavirus
- Mindful: Resources to Find Calm and Nourish Resilience During COVID Outbreak
- NYT: 5 Rules to Live By During a Pandemic
- NPR: Pandemic Panic - These 5 Tips Can Help Calm Your Fears
- Online Counseling: Tips from Counselors on How to Manage Financial Stress During a Crisis
- On Being: A Listening Care Package for Uncertain Times
- Pacific Medical Training: Dealing with Coronavirus-Related Anxiety
- PBS: Why Your Mental Health May Be Suffering in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- PBS: Yo-Yo Ma Encourages 'Songs of Comfort' Amid Global Crisis
- PsychCentral: Affirmations for Difficult Times
- Public Health Degrees: How Communities Can Prevent Panic in Uncertain Times
- Ten Percent Happier: Coronavirus Sanity - Keeping Anxiety in Perspective
- USC: Building Mental Resilience During a Crisis
For Family and Friends
Information for loved ones of anxiety and OCD sufferers.
- AnxietyBC: How Friends and Family Can Help
- Anxiety, Panic, Health: Helping a Family Member with an Anxiety Disorder
- Beyond OCD: How to Support a Friend with OCD
- CalmClinic: 12 Tips for Friends and Family of Those With Anxiety
- GoodTherapy: Do You Love Someone Who Lives with Anxiety?
- Greater Good Magazine: Seven Ways to Help Someone with Anxiety
- HealthyPlace: Social Anxiety Support, How Family and Friends Can Help
- HelpGuide: Caregiver Stress and Burnout, Tips for Recharging
- HelpGuide: Helping Someone with PTSD
- Hey Sigmund: When Someone You Love Has Anxiety
- International OCD Foundation: Living with Someone Who Has OCD
- MGHOCD: How to Support Someone With OCD, BDD, or a Related Disorder
- Right as Rain: What to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone with Anxiety
- TLC Foundation: Helping Someone with a Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry.
- ADAA: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- ADAVIC: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Fact Sheet
- Calm Clinic: The Complete Anxiety Guide
- Harvard Health: Managing Worry in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Healthy Place: What is an Anxiety Disorder?
- Help Guide: GAD Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help
- Mayo Clinic: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- NAMI: Types of Anxiety Disorders
- National Library of Medicine: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Penn Behavioral Health: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Theravive: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- U of M Health: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Inspiration
Sometimes it just takes a book, poem, music, painting, or photograph to help move us in a new direction.
- David Adam: Journalist, author, and mental health advocate. Adam wrote The Man Who Couldn't Stop Washing: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought (2014)
- Kate Allan: Artist Kate Allan encourages mental health art. She writes and draws about painful things but makes it okay with bright colors and sparkles.
- Kate Joy Crawford: Kate photographically depicted her battle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder through her body of work My Anxious Heart.
- Kristina Lishawa: What started as a hobby became a passion, Kristina finds a huge amount of joy in viewing our world through various lenses. Her hope as an artist is to inspire others to wonder at the immense beauty of wild places and creatures.
- Liz Atkin: Artist and mental health advocate, Liz has Compulsive Skin Picking, a complex physical and mental disorder. She reimagines the body-focused repetitive behavior and anxiety into drawings, photographs, and performances.
- Morgan Harper Nichols: Writer, artist, and musician, Morgan's works are inspired by people and their stories.
- RIOPY: A London based French pianist and composer, RIOPY hosted a live-streamed meditation session from Shoreditch Treehouse in London where he played his single Meditation 22.
- Scott Stossel: Editor of The Atlantic magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind (2015)
- Wendy Ann Greenhalgh: Wendy believes that creativity and mindfulness are two ways through which we can begin to realize the potential for inner freedom and wellbeing. She's enthusiastically committed to this in her own life, and to support you to find it in yours.
Local Resources
Kent County information for suicide prevention and help, as well as other mental health resources.
- Catholic Charities: Prevention, Education, Crisis Management Services
- Mel Trotter Ministries: Clinic, Shelter, Meals, Housing
- Network180: Mental Health First Aid
- Spectrum Health: Food, Transporation, Mental Health
- United Way: 211 Live Chat
- The Mental Health Foundation: Crisis Helplines
- YWCA: Help for Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Movement and Exercise
Find information on how staying active can aid in managing anxiety.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Related Disorders
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Asperger Syndrome: Severe impairment in social interaction and the development of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD): Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD): Preoccupation with a perceived defect in one’s appearance.
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs): Body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse control behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or causing physical injury.
- ADAA: BFRB Statistics, Treatment, Resources
- Anxiety.org: Mindfulness to Treat BFRBs
- Happiful: The Truth About Trichotillomania
- Mayo Clinic: Definition, Symptoms, and Causes of Trichotillomania
- OCD Center of LA: Trichotillomania Symptoms and Treatment
- Picking Me Foundation: Advocating on Skin Picking
- Self: 9 Tips for Managing a BFRB From People Who Have Them
- TLC Foundation: Learn About BFRBs
- TLC Foundation: BFRB Resource Library
- University of Chicago: What New Research is Telling Us About BFRBs
Eating Disorders: Severe disturbances in eating behaviors.
- ANAD: Education and Awareness
- Eating Disorders Coalition: Facts About Eating Disorders
- HelpGuide: Tips and Strategies for Overcoming an Eating Disorder
- IOCDF: The Relationship Between Eating Disorders and OCD Spectrum
- MentorCONNECT: Relationships Replace Eating Disorders
- National Eating Disorders: Finding Help and Support
- National Eating Disorder Information Center
Hoarding: Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.
- AARP: Understanding Hoarding Disorder
- ADAA: Understanding the Basics of Hoarding
- Clutterers Anonymous: Am I a Clutterer?
- Compulsive-Hoarding: About, Research, Treatment, and Support
- Help for Hoarders: Helping Hoarders Help Themselves (top tips)
- Hoarders Anonymous: Video Archive
- International OCD Foundation: Hoarding Center
- Mayo Clinic: Definition, Symptoms, and Causes of Hoarding
- The Hoarding Project: What is a Hoarding Disorder?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions).
- ADAA: OCD Symptoms and Treatment
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation: What is OCD?
- Camp DCO: 3-Day Overnight Camp for Teens and Adults with OCD
- International OCD Foundation: OCD and ADHD
- International OCD Foundation: What is OCD?
- Intrusive Thoughts: OCD and Mindfulness
- McLean Hospital: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Institute
- Mind: The OCD Cycle
- NAMI: OCD Overview, Treatment, and Support
- OCD Action: I Want to Know More About OCD
- OCD Stories: Real Stories That Educate and Inspire Those With OCD
- OCD Youth: A Site for Young People With OCD
- The OCD Foundation of MI: Newsletters and Self-Help Groups
- Time to Change: Personal Stories About Living With OCD
Panic Disorder
Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks. A panic attack is the sudden onset of fear and physical symptoms such as racing heartbeat, sweating, and trembling.
- ADAA: Panic Attack Symptoms
- ADAA: Self-Help Steps to Break the Panic Cycle
- APA: Answers to Your Questions About Panic Disorder
- Anxiety.org: Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder
- CalmClinic: What is the Correct Way to Breathe During Panic Attacks?
- Help Guide: Panic Attack Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
- The Mighty: Personal Stories About Panic Disorder
- Triumph Over Panic: Personal Stories about Panic Recovery
- UofM Health: The Difference Between Anxiety and Panic Attack
School Anxiety
Useful sites to help with school anxiety.
- ADAA: School Refusal, What Can Parents Do?
- AnxietyBC: Coping with Back to School Anxiety
- Best Colleges: Guide for College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities
- CalmClinic: Social Anxiety Disorder and Student Life
- Dartmouth: Preparing and Taking Tests and Exams
- ETS: Reducing Testing Anxiety
- Intervention Central: Testing Tips for Anxious Students
- Kids Health: Test Taking Tips for Teens
- Online Colleges: Critical Mental Health Resources for College Students
- Maryville University: Helpful Study Tips for College Students
- Mayo Clinic: New School Anxiety
- Philadelphia College of Medicine: Teacher Awareness of Anxiety Symptoms
- Purdue University: How to Reduce Test Anxiety for College Students
- Worry Wise Kids: Sample Accommodations for Anxious Kids
- UNC: Strategies for Handling Writing Anxiety
- YouTube: This Test Does Not Define You
Self Tests
Could it be an anxiety disorder?
Social Anxiety
Fear of social situations or performing in front of others.
Tips, Tools, and Techniques
A variety of self-help resources to help people with anxiety relax the body and mind.
- Breathing to Reduce Anxiety
- Focused Abdominal Breathing to Reduce Pain and Anxiety
- Helpful How-To Documents for Anxiety Relief
- How to Treat Anxiety Naturally
- How to Be Mindful When You're Anxious
- Integrative Behavioral Health
- Leaning Into Anxiety (a meditation)
- Relaxation Skills for Anxiety
- Spending Time in Nature to Reduce Anxiety
- Write Your Anxieties Away
- 3 Anxiety Breathing Techniques You Can Practice Anywhere
- 5 Mindfulness Practices to Help Reduce Anxiety
- 6 Breathing Exercises to Relax in 10 Minutes or Less
Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Other Tic Disorders:
Sudden, recurrent movements or sounds such as neck jerking or clearing the throat.
- AACAP: Tic Disorders, Facts for Families
- Healthy Children: Tics, Tourette Syndrome and OCD
- Jim Eisenreich Foundation: Questions Jim is frequently asked about TS
- Kid's Health: About Tourette Syndrome
- NINDS: Tourette Syndrome Fact Sheet
- TSA-USA: Tourette Syndrome Medical and Scientific Research
- Tourette Syndrome Plus: Overview of Tics and Tourette's Syndrome
- Tourette Syndrome Plus: Treatment of Tourette's Syndrome
Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
Persistent re-experiencing of a traumatic event, often referred to as "flashbacks."
- APA: Helping Families Cope With PTSD
- Bethany Christian GR: Client-and-Family Centered Trauma Treatment
- Breathe Network: Healing Arts Modalities & Sexual Trauma
- Gift from Within: PTSD Resources for Survivors and Caregivers
- HealthyPlace: What is PTSD Self-Help and Where to Find It
- Help Guide: Coping with PTSD and Trauma
- Help Guide: Emotional and Psychological Trauma
- MA Hospital: Clinical Research for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders
- Make the Connection: Shared Experience and Support for Veterans
- Mighty: Fawning, The Fourth Trauma Response We Don't Talk About
- NAMI: PTSD Overview, Treatment, and Support
- NIH: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Project Welcome Home Troops: Power Breath Meditation
- PTSDUSA: Warrior's Shield Radio Podcast
- Recall Report: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- RNtoBTSN: Raising Awareness about PTSD, A Resource Guide
- Tara Brach: Healing Trauma With Meditation and Psychotherapy
- Trauma-Informed Care: Self-Help Tips
- VA.GOV: PTSD Educational Videos for the Public and Veterans
Workplace Stress and Anxiety
Resources for both the employer and employee.
- 7 Strategies to Deal with Work Anxiety Today
- Anxiety Disorders in the Workplace
- Anxiety Disorders: Why They Matter and What Employees Can Do
- How to Reduce Workplace Anxiety
- How to Tackle Mental Health in the Workplace as a Manager and Colleague
- Job Loss and Unemployment Stress
- Mind Matters: Anxiety in the Workplace
- Tips to Reduce and Manage Job and Workplace Stress
- Ultimate Guide to Mental Health in the Workplace
- What to Do if Your Workplace is Anxiety-Inducing
- Work-Focused Psychotherapy Can Help Employees Return to Work Sooner
- Workplace Phobic Anxiety as a Mental Health Phenomena in the Job Demands
