Online Websites
Anxiety BC Youth: http://youth.anxietybc.com/
An amazing website that provides information on anxiety and facing one’s fears. Even more importantly, it provides a huge range of coping mechanisms ranging from mindfulness to visualizations to breathing (and much much more!) Definitely check it out.
Anxiety Toolkits: http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/publications/toolkits
Provides information to help better understand and cope with issues like depression (includes others such as substance addiction, anxiety, wellness, family coping, etc.)
Social Anxiety/Shyness: http://www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk/shynesssocialphobia.asp
A workbook providing information on social anxiety/shyness and how to transform your experience with it.
Mood Gym: https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/moodgym
A website that hosts an interactive program that teaches you Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills to help identify and cope with your problems.
Living Life to the Full: http://www.llttf.com/
Also a Cognitive Based Therapy website, it addresses the following things:
- Understanding why we feel as we do.
- Practical problem solving skills.
- Using Anxiety Control Training relaxation.
- Overcoming Reduced activity .
- Helpful and Unhelpful behaviours.
- Using Medication effectively.
- Noticing unhelpful thoughts.
- Changing unhelpful thoughts.
- Healthy living – sleep, food, diet and exercise.
- Staying well
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