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Agoraphobia
- 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
Anxiety with Other Conditions
Coronavirus and Mental Health
- 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: COVID-19 - Coping with Stress
- 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
- Therapy Aid Coalition
- USC: Building Mental Resilience During a Crisis
For Family and Friends
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Catholic Charities: Prevention, Education, Crisis Management Services
- Find AA Meetings in Michigan
- Mel Trotter Ministries: Clinic, Shelter, Meals, Housing
- Network180: Mental Health First Aid
- Spectrum Health: Food, Transporation, Mental Health
- United Way 211
- The Mental Health Foundation: Crisis Helplines
- YWCA: Help for Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Movement and Exercise
- Exercise to Combat Depression and Anxiety: Changing the Body and Mind
- Exercising to Relax
- Exercise for Stress and Anxiety
- Exercise, Yoga, and Meditation for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
- The Mental Health Benefits of Exercise
- How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety
- Yoga for Anxiety
- Yoga Poses to Reduce Anxiety
OCD & 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
- Baylor University: Cultivating Body Neutrality in Young People
- 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
- NurseJournal: Nurse’s Guide to Caring for Patients With Eating Disorders
- within: Eating Disorder Treatment Programs for Children
- within: The Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression, and Overeating
- within: Treatment of Eating Disorders in Teen Girls
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: 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 Midwest: Affiliate of the International OCD Foundation
- OCD Stories: Real Stories That Educate and Inspire Those With OCD
- OCD Youth: A Site for Young People With OCD
- Scrupulosity: Life Doesn’t Get Easier; You Just Get Stronger (podcast)
- The OCD Foundation of MI: Newsletters and Self-Help Groups
- Time to Change: Personal Stories About Living With OCD
Panic Disorder
- 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
Parents, Children, Teens
- ADAA: Childhood Anxiety Disorders
- AACAP: FAQ's and Facts for Families of Children with Anxiety Disorders
- ADDitude: The Power of Mirror Neurons and Why Parents' Energy Matters
- 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
- Greater Good Magazine: 6 Ways to Help Your Child Deal with Social Exclusion
- Health & Human Services Department: Protecting Youth Mental Health
- Hey Sigmund: Anxiety, Avoidance, and How to Retrain Your Amazing Brain (video)
- Hey Sigmund: The Connection Between Anxiety and Anger
- ImpactParents: Shift Your Expectations to Manage Complex Kids
- Innerbody: Mental Health Resources for Teens
- 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
- MindShift: How to Help Teenage Girls Reframe Anxiety and Strengthen Resilience
- OCD Youth: A Site for Young People With OCD
- Selective Mutism: What is Selective Mutism?
- SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
- Washington Post: Why the Children's Mental Health Crisis Predates the Pandemic
- WorryWiseKids: Resources for Anxious Children and Their Families
Podcasts
Charm Words
A daily affirmations podcast for children that will help to inspire and bring self-worth to the forefront of young minds at the start and end of their day. Help your kids deal with feelings of emotional distress while learning new self-care abilities.
House Calls Podcast
U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and his guests explore how they navigate the messiness and uncertainties of life to find meaning and joy "because conversations can be healing."
I Am Speaking
A podcast focused on the lives of “othered” Americans. The goal is to hear, share, and amplify the voices of Americans--both citizens and noncitizens-who have felt like outsiders in their homes.
Meditation Minis
Meditation Minis are short, guided audio meditations for anxiety, stress, and confidence.
Sensory Friendly Solutions
This podcast series gives voice to daily life sensory challenges, like those experienced with anxiety.
The Slowdown
Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery.
On Being
Peabody award-winning conversations to live with. Wisdom to replenish and orient in this wild ride of a time to be alive.
The Calmer You Podcast
Helping you to heal anxiety, quiet the inner critic, and live a more expansive life of calm and confidence.
Tilt Parenting
A podcast about learning disabilities, special education, ADHD, anxiety, autism, giftedness, twice-exceptionality, and more.
We Can Do Hard Things
Untamed author Glennon Doyle, her sister Amanda, and wife (and soccer superstar) Abby Wambach, practice the art of vulnerability by completely opening up about the hard stuff in their lives—struggles in work, family, and boundaries—so that we can work through it together, and maybe even laugh about it.
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
- Grand Canyon University: Essential Tips for Test Anxiety
- Hey Sigmund: Anxiety at School - How to Build Brave by Building Their Village
- Hey Sigmund: Anxiety at School - When Talking and Doing Feels Too Big
- Intervention Central: Testing Tips for Anxious Students
- Kids Health: Test-Taking Tips for Teens
- Online Colleges: Critical Mental Health Resources for College Students
- Mayo Clinic: New School Anxiety
- Mind Matters: A College Student's Mental Health Handbook
- Philadelphia College of Medicine: Teacher Awareness of Anxiety Symptoms
- Purdue University: How to Reduce Test Anxiety for College Students
- Study: How the Mental Health Crisis is Affecting Education
- Study: How to Reduce Test Anxiety While Studying
- Study: Mental Health Guide 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
Social Anxiety
Tips, Tools, and Techniques
- Affirmations for Anxiety: How to Make and Use Them
- Audio Mediations by HelpGuide.org
- How to Set Boundaries When You Feel Anxious
- 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 (complementary treatments)
- Leaning Into Anxiety (a meditation)
- Most Popular Self-Care Activity in Each State
- Relaxation Skills for Anxiety
- Setting Boundaries Helps 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
- 8 Breathing Exercises for Anxiety You Can Try Right Now
Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Other Tic Disorders:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7 Strategies to Deal with Work Anxiety Today
- 12 Tips for Nurses to Deal with Pre and Postshift Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorders in the Workplace
- 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
- Nurse's Resource Guide to Coping with Burnout, Stress, and Mental Health Challenges
- Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace (information and tips)
- Tips to Reduce and Manage Job and Workplace Stress
- 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