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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 section includes information about symptoms of generalised anxiety, how it's treated, and what self-help measures you can take.
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.Last reviewed April 2015.
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Review key: HIAXA-50595
