The Best Resources for Anxiety

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Want to learn additional ways to deal with anxiety? Don't spend any more time letting anxiety interfere with your quality of life. Get help if you need it. Here is a list of excellent self-help resources including some of the best anxiety books, websites, and apps available to target anxiety.

There are so many different options available!

  • Read more about different anxiety disorders and options for treatment.
  • Learn techniques to manage the symptoms of anxiety.
  • Track and graph your moods.
  • Identify your triggers.
  • Set goals.
  • Learn meditation and mindfulness.
  • Reduce negative thinking.
  • Join peer networks with others that struggle with anxiety.

Helpful websites related to anxiety:

 

Address anxiety and learn how to manage symptoms. Explanations and links provided for excellent self-help resources for children and adults, including some of the best anxiety books, websites and apps available.

 

  • The Anxiety Boss is a site written by Dr. Carlo Carandang. He is a psychiatrist and anxiety expert and maintains this comprehensive resource. He has many articles about anxiety disorders and options for treatment.
  • Anxiety.org has a thorough and well-written overview of different types of anxiety, causes, risk factors, and treatments. I like this article: What is anxiety?
  • The Anxiety Coach is a self-help guide for people with anxiety disorders. They offer information and techniques for the management of anxiety.
  • Fear of Flying SOAR program is meant for people that want to conquer their fear of flying. It includes articles and these videos with tips on how to overcome it. The creator of this program is a pilot who combines his expertise in airplanes with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and created this very effective program.
  • Driving Fear is a site for people looking to overcome their fear of driving. They have self-help programs and a blog.
  • Social Anxiety Association is a nonprofit organization that promotes understanding and treatment of social anxiety disorder.
  • Emetophobia Online is a site for information and support for those suffering from the fear of vomiting.

Address anxiety and learn how to manage symptoms. Explanations and links provided for excellent self-help resources for children and adults, including some of the best anxiety books, websites and apps available.

 

Ways to deal with anxiety

 

Websites addressing anxiety in children:

 

Address anxiety and learn how to manage symptoms. Explanations and links provided for excellent self-help resources for children and adults, including some of the best anxiety books, websites and apps available.

 

  • The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry maintains an anxiety disorder resource center for children.
  • The Child Anxiety Network has information for parents, teachers and professionals to help manage and learn about anxiety in children.
  • The website and blog of Hey Sigmund have a great list of articles to help children with anxiety. She is the author of the book Hey Warrior which explains anxiety in a way children can understand.

Recommended apps to help with anxiety:

 

Address anxiety and learn how to manage symptoms. Explanations and links provided for excellent self-help resources for children and adults, including some of the best anxiety books, websites and apps available.

 

  • Mood Track Diary: Free app. Track and graph your mood patterns and triggers.
  • Pacifica: Free app to reduce stress and anxiety. Mood tracking, goal setting, relaxation techniques, and peer support.
  • Happify: Free app. Overcoming stress and negative thoughts. Skills to train yourself for happiness.
  • Anxiety coach: $4.99 This app is designed to be used over several weeks to months as a tool to gradually face a feared situation and reduce anxiety.
  • Headspace: Free or paid versions. Meditation and mindfulness made simple.
  • Calm: Free app. Reduce anxiety, sleep better, and feel happier. Includes meditation, breathing exercises and relaxation techniques.
  • Breathe2relax: Free app. Stress management tools with practice exercises to help learn stress management skills. i-phone app
  • Insight timer:  Free meditation app. i-phone app, android app
  • Simply Being Too: $1.99 Guided meditation for relaxation. i-phone app, android app

Are you looking for the best books on anxiety?

 

Address anxiety and learn how to manage symptoms. Explanations and links provided for excellent self-help resources for children and adults, including some of the best anxiety books, websites and apps available.

 

Best anxiety books for adults:

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
The Worry Cure Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You
The Anti Anxiety Toolkit Rapid techniques to rewire the brain
The Highly Sensitive Person How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook
Face Your Fears A Proven Plan to Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and Obsessions
Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway
Dancing with Fear Overcoming Anxiety in a World of Stress and Uncertainty
The Happiness Trap How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
Anxiety Gone The Three C's of Anxiety Recovery
The Book of Secrets Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Practicing The Power Of Now
Don't Feed the Monkey Mind How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
When Panic Attacks The New, Drug Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
Radical Acceptance Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
You Are Not Your Brain The 4 Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life
Resolving the Anxiety Dilemma
Angel of Fear A Guide to End Stress and Anxiety
The Mindful Way through Anxiety Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Feeling Good Handbook
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
NEVER GOOD ENOUGH How to use Perfectionism to Your Advantage Without Letting it Ruin Your Life

Children's anxiety books:

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Revised and Updated Edition Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life from Toddlers to Teens
What to Do When You Worry Too Much A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety
Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children
Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda
What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD
The Worried Child Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal
The Worrywarts
What to Do When You Dread Your Bed A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems With Sleep
What to Do When You Dread Your Bed A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems With Sleep
Snip Snap! What's That?
Worried No More Help and Hope for Anxious Children

Are there other resources you have found helpful? Let me know if there is anything I have missed.

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