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Anxiety and Phobias
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Patient UK
Includes a leaflet called Anxiety Disorders
Stress, Anxiety, Depression Confidential Helpline
Aims to encourage individuals suffering with Stress, Anxiety and Depression to seek professional help and any treatment from their general practitioner, and at the same time to educate on the benefits of selfhelp strategies like relaxation, exercise, stress management techniques, etc., to reduce the impact of the illness on their lives, their families lives and to help reduce the risk of future relapse
Health Anxiety: A Self help guide
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
Shyness and Social Anxiety: A self help guide
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
Stress and Anxiety: A self help guide
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
Stress and Anxiety: A self help guide for people in prison
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
Introduction to Mental Health
Directgov is the website of the UK government for its citizens, providing information and online services for the public all in one place. They provide a wide range of information including one in this area.
First Steps to Freedom
Help, advice and support for those suffering from phobias, panic attacks and obsessional compulsive disorder. Help now available via e-mail.
Medicine Guide for Anxiety
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to treat Anxiety.
Anxiety UK (formerly the The National Phobics Society)
Aims to help anyone affected by anxiety disorders including phobic and obsessive disorders.
Triumph Over Phobia (TOP UK)
TOP UK runs a national network of self-help groups to help people with phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to overcome their problems using graded self-exposure.
Anxiety
Information from HandsOnScotland
Stresswatch Scotland
Helping sufferers of stress-related disorders including Panic Attacks, Phobias and Anxiety.
Anxiety Care
A registered charity that specialises in helping people to recover from anxiety disorder and to maintain that recovery. This involves helping to plan, initiate and carry through personal recovery programmes.
No More Panic
A website which provides information for sufferers and carers of people with Panic, Anxiety, Phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD).
Anxiety
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Anxiety.
Depression and anxiety - computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT)
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Depression and anxiety - computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT).
Fear Free Flying
Formed to offer a unique reference point on coping with flying anxiety and aerophobia. The features and articles on this website are written by professional journalists and experts - who have a particular interest, or a background in this area.
Fear of Flying
Frequently Asked Questions of the The Aviation Health Unit.
Destigmatize.org.uk
An organization working in conjunction with the Anxiety UK. They aim to provide information and support for sufferers of anxiety disorders mainly, but not exclusively, in the Asian population.
Needlephobia
A site from healthcare company Smith & Nephew offering facts, information and advice on fear of needles, pins and sharp objects, also known as Belonephobia.
Gut Reaction
A self-help group formed by a life-long sufferer of emetophobia (fear of vomiting). Whilst this site cannot offer the elusive and definitive 'cure', there are many suggestions and ideas, tips for avoiding food poisoning and information about various medications.
Stress and anxiety - self help guides
Part of a set of self help guides on mental health issues that have been developed in Northumberland by Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Mental Health Nurses and other Therapists.
Anxiety and Phobias
Factsheet from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Shyness and Social Phobia
Factsheet from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Mental Health Foundation
Provide good information about anxiety.
Moodjuice
Moodjuice is a site designed to offer information, advice to thoseexperiencing troublesome thoughts, feelings and actions. From the siteyou are able to print off various self-help guides covering conditionssuch as depression, anxiety, stress, panic and sleep problems. In thesite you can explore various aspects of you life that may be causing yousome distress and at the click of a button obtain information onorganisations, services and other self-help materials that can offer yousupport and information to help yourself. Site is provided by NHS Forth Valley.
Wallsend Self Help Group
Tyneside based support, provided by ex-sufferers, for those with Anxiety, Depression, OCD and other stress and phobia related problems. Although this is a local group, their website gives useful general information on these problems.
British Association for Counselling
Among other things it publishes directories and other information to enable those seeking counselling to make an informed choice.
British Psychological Society
The professional body for psychologists in the UK. Publishes a directory of chartered psychologists in which the names of chartered psychologists who are available directly for consultation by members of the public are listed under their areas of expertise and within geographical areas.
UK Paruresis Trust
A registered UK charity which provides information about the condition paruresis. A phobia type condition causing an inability to urinate in the presence, real or perceived, of others. Common names for the condition are Shy Bladder, Bashful Bladder or Pee Shy. A medical description is Psychogenic Urinary Retention.
Flying Without Fear
A site helping anxious flyers to overcome their fear of flying. The site describes the courses available to help ease the worries of anyone who doesn't like flying. Also available from the site the best selling book 'Flying without Fear' by retired British Airways training pilot Captain Keith Godfrey. A forum for questions and sharing personal experiences.
Airfraid
A comprehensive collection of information and help made available in one place for people who are afraid of flying.
Anxious Drivers - Specialist Help
Information about an integrated treatment package for anxious drivers, combining Clinical Psychology and driving tuition expertise.
Social Anxiety UK
The three main aims of this site are to provide a starting point for people just finding out about SA and related issues, to enable them to access further information through this site and through external links; to act as a central hub for the community of those with social anxiety problems in the UK; and to attempt to raise the profile of SA problems and campaign for change, so that in future, people afflicted by them don't have to suffer in silence as so many of us have done in the past.
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
The BABCP provide leaflets on anxiety, phobias, Agoraphobia, and the fear of flying.
Cognitive and behavioural therapy (CBT) for people with depression and anxiety: what skills can service users expect their therapists to have?
Information from the Department of Health.
The competences required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders
Information from the Department of Health.
MIND
MIND, one of Britain's leading mental health charities, provides various information leaflets on anxiety.
Anxietycure.org
AnxietyCure.org offers information pertaining to a wide range of topics.
Anxiety
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Phobias
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Anxiety disorders
Information from BUPA.
Mild anxiety
Information from BUPA.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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Anxiety - A Self Help Guide
Anxiety - Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety Disorders
Controlled Breathing
Health Anxiety - A Self Help Guide
Panic - A Self Help Guide
Phobia - Agoraphobia
Phobia - Social Phobia
Phobias
Relaxation Exercises
Shyness and Social Anxiety - A Self Help Guide
Stress - A Self Help GuideSupport Groups related to this topic (^ top of page)
Anxiety Care
Anxiety UK
Destigmatize.org.uk
Emotions Anonymous
First Steps to Freedom (phobia & compulsion support)
Flying Without Fear
Listening Friends (for pharmacists)
No More Panic
No Panic
Northern Ireland Agoraphobia & Anxiety Society
Outsiders (for the emotionally isolated)
Rural Stress Helpline
Social Anxiety UK
SupportLine
The Drive Clinic
There4U
Triumph Over PhobiaPatientPlus articles related to this topic (^ top of page)
Agoraphobia
Depression
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) Scale
Managing Depression
Panic Disorder
Psychotherapy and its Uses
Serotonin and Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)
Social Anxiety/Phobia
Somatisation DisorderUK guidelines related to this topic (^ top of page)
Guidelines on Agoraphobia
Guidelines on AnxietyLinks to other selected websites related to this topic (^ top of page)
AgoraphobiaPoems and stories related to this topic (^ top of page)
InsidePatient UK Newspaper (^ top of page)
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Books
Anxiety & Panic Attacks : British Medical Association's Family Doctors Series
Anxiety (An Introduction to Coping with)
Anxiety (Overcoming)
Anxiety and Depression (Coping with)
Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (The)
Anxiety: Self-Help Programme (Overcoming)
Child's Shyness and Social Anxiety (Overcoming: Your)
Coping Successfully with Panic Attacks
Coping with Anxiety and Depression
Health Anxiety (An Introduction to Coping With)
Living with Fear
Overcoming Anxiety
Overcoming Anxiety - A Five Areas Approach
Overcoming Social Anxiety: A Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques
Panic (An Introduction in Coping With)
Panic and Agoraphobia: Self Help Course (Overcoming)
Panic Attacks (Coping Successfully with)
Panic Attacks (Understanding and Overcoming Fear)
Phobia's (An Introduction to Coping With)
Phobias: The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Social Anxiety and Shyness (Overcoming)
Social Anxiety and Shyness: Self Help Course (Overcoming)
Understanding Panic Attacks and Overcoming Fear
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UK Guidelines
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Medline
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