Anxiety

Websites

• Anxiety and Depression Association of America
  • ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through the alignment of science, treatment, and education.
• Anxiety.org
  • Anxiety.org is committed to making mental health information accessible, inclusive, easy-to-find, and easy-to-understand. They want anyone suffering from an anxiety disorder to have access to all the resources they need to understand and overcome their condition. This website provides the latest and most relevant information by working directly with distinguished doctors, therapists, scientists, and specialists to keep you on the cutting-edge of research and advancements in the field, while keeping our content approachable for the average reader. The goal is to bridge the understanding gap that exists between mental health professionals and those actually dealing with anxiety disorders.

Videos

• TED Talk: How to stop feeling anxious about anxiety | Tim Box (2019)
  • Tim Box is a therapist, author and anxiety expert, and in his youth experienced debilitating levels of social anxiety. Tim has spent a large part of the last 10 years helping people understand and control their anxiety response and at some point during the last decade he started to get the distinct impression that most people dealing with anxiety were thinking about it in entirely the wrong way. In this talk Tim explains why we need to think about anxiety differently, why the help we are being offered often exacerbates the problem, and how a very simple shift in the way we think about our own emotional responses can free us from our diagnoses and help us all feel a lot less anxious about anxiety.
• TED Talk: How mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains | Richard J. Davidson (2019)
  • Dr Davidson is the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr Davidson is also the Founder of Healthy Minds Innovations, which translates science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being. In this eye-opening talk, Richard Davidson discusses how mindfulness can improve well-being and outlines strategies to boost four components of a healthy mind: awareness, connection, insight, and purpose.

Books

• The Four Gifts of Anxiety: Embrace the Power of Your Anxiety and Transform Your Life | Sherianna Boyle (2014)
  • Complete with real-life stories from others who transformed their outlook, The Four Gifts of Anxiety helps you develop a healthier way of thinking, harness your inner power, and finally reclaim your life. The Four Gifts of Anxiety shows you how to tap into the power of your anxiety and reveal its gifts of resiliency, hope, empathy, and purpose. Filled with exercises, meditations, and reflection prompts, this book teaches you how to access these positive attributes and the inner strengths that have been hiding behind your symptoms.

Research Articles

• The Relationship Between Burnout, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Panagiota Koutsimani, Anthony Montgomery & Katerina Georganta (2019)
  • Burnout is a psychological syndrome characterized by emotional exhaustion, feelings of cynicism and reduced personal accomplishment. In the past years there has been disagreement on whether burnout and depression are the same or different constructs, as they appear to share some common features. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine the relationship between burnout and depression. Additionally, given that burnout is the result of chronic stress and that working environments can often trigger anxious reactions, it also investigated the relationship between burnout and anxiety. Results: Our results showed a significant association between burnout and depression and burnout and anxiety.

Self-Help Guides

• A Self-Help Guide on Panic and Panic Attacks | NHS Foundation Trust
• Relaxation Techniques | Therapist Aid
  • An evidence-based article and guide by TherapistAid about relaxation techniques.