HealthInfo Canterbury

More information about anxiety disorders

Family support

Parenting when you have an anxiety disorder can be really challenging, and your kids may find life difficult while you are ill. Use the resources and support groups listed on Children of parents with a mental illness or addiction to help your family deal with the issues they may face.

You might also find the resources below useful.

Specific disorder information

Generalised anxiety disorder

• Anxiety Support – Generalised anxiety disorder

  Brochure about generalised anxiety disorder.

• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust – Anxiety: a self-help guide

  Download this booklet and work through it at your own pace. (Click on the Anxiety image, click Leaflet, then click A4 or Easy Read, depending on which format you prefer)

• Centre for Clinical Interventions – What? Me worry!?!

  These modules cover everything from an overview of generalised anxiety through to problem-solving and self-management. Work through them at your own pace.

• NHS Choices – Generalised anxiety disorder in adults

  This page includes a video in which a psychiatrist talks about the symptoms of anxiety, why it can become a problem, and how it can be treated.

Health anxiety

• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear – Health anxiety: a self-help guide

  Download this booklet and work through it at your own pace. (Click on the Health Anxiety image, click Leaflet, then click A4 or Easy Read, depending on which format you prefer)

• Centre for Clinical Interventions – Helping health anxiety

  Work through the modules covering understanding health anxiety, how it develops, self-management planning and more.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

• Anxiety Support – OCD

  This leaflet briefly looks at what obsessive compulsive disorder is, how it can affect your life, and what treatments are available.

• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust – Obsessions and compulsions: a self-help guide

  Download this booklet and work through it at your own pace. (Click on the Obsessions and compulsions image, click Leaflet, then click A4 or Easy Read, depending on which format you prefer)

Panic disorder and agoraphobia

• Anxiety Support – Panic and agoraphobia

  This leaflet briefly explains panic and agoraphobia and the treatments available.

• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust – Panic: a self-help guide

  Download this booklet and work through it at your own pace. (Click on the Panic image, click Leaflet, then click A4 or Easy Read, depending on which format you prefer)

• Centre for Clinical Interventions – Panic stations

  This page has 12 modules on coping with panic attacks that you can work through at your own pace.

Phobia

• NHS Choices – Phobias

  This page includes a video of a clinical psychologist explaining phobia and how the different types of phobia are treated.

Social anxiety

• Anxiety Support – Social anxiety

  This leaflet briefly explains what social anxiety is, how it can affect your life and what treatments are available.

• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust – Shyness and social anxiety: a self-help guide

  Download this booklet and work through it at your own pace. Click on the Shyness and social anxiety image, click Leaflet, then click A4 or Easy Read, depending on which format you prefer)

• Centre for Clinical Interventions – Shy no longer

  This page has 12 modules on coping with social anxiety that you can work through at your own pace.

Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers.Updated April 2015.

Page reference: 50637

Review key: HIAXA-50595