Resources
With invaluable input from the Yale Child Study Center's Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (Yale School of Medicine), we have put together some easy-to-access resources to help students read and become better informed about their own anxiety.
(Highlighted are the resources that we find to be most useful and most effective)
Websites:
The Child Mind Institue has a very useful "symptom checker" where you indicate your various symptoms and behaviors by answering a series of questions. From your answers to these specific questions, the website will explain the different disorders associated with your symptoms and explain to you the next. steps: https://childmind.org/symptomchecker/
In this article, the Child Mind Institute has a brief guide to what anxiety really is and what the various symptoms of anxiety are. It also explains the different types of anxiety disorders that can be found in children and how you should cope with your specific disorder: https://childmind.org/guide/anxiety-in-children-quick-guide/
Here, the Child Mind Institute gives parents a complete guide to getting their kids the care that they need. for their anxiety. They have a step by step process for parents to follow to ensure that they don't miss anything: https://childmind.org/guide/parents-guide-to-getting-good-care/
The Mental Health Literacy website provides many different resources with the goal of spreading the understanding of mental health and mental disorders. This is a very useful website to become informed about mental disorders on a very general level, as opposed to specifically discussing Anxiety: https://mentalhealthliteracy.org/
Ok2Talk is an extremely useful website where you can post anonymous comments about anything related to your mental health disorders. You can say anything and just write what's on your mind because sometimes it helps to let it all out instead of keeping it inside: https://ok2talk.org/
The Calm Clinic website is a good source for articles related to anxiety. These articles discuss the fears of seeing a therapist, the different ways of coping with anxiety, and so many more helpful anxiety-related topics: https://www.calmclinic.com/category/anxiety
Articles:
The NPR has a very interesting article written on how to prevent anxiety in children. This is an interesting article because instead of discussing what to do once you have anxiety, it discusses how to prevent those anxious feelings before you even get them: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/25/443444964/parents-can-learn-how-to-prevent-anxiety-in-their-children
Almost everybody in the world will feel anxious at some point in their lives. Mental Floss offers a great article describing the differences between just feeling anxious, and actually having a diagnosed anxiety disorder: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/504030/whats-difference-between-feeling-anxious-and-having-anxiety
Some people may think that they have anxiety but aren't sure, and others don't know that they have anxiety even though they do. The NPR has an article describing what it feels like to suffer from anxiety to better inform people about what anxiety disorders they may have: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/10/05/555855908/what-is-it-like-to-suffer-from-an-anxiety-disorder
COVID-19 has impacted everybody since the global pandemic emerged. The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article about the effects that COVID-19 has had on students' mental health, specifically how it has impacted their levels of anxiety: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-pandemic-mental-health-schools-depression-anxiety-11630333260
Blogs:
Anxiety Slayer is a great and resourceful website that offers many blogs and podcasts which all discuss anxiety and the best ways to relieve that anxiety: https://www.anxietyslayer.com/journal/
The Anxiety Guy has a huge variety of blogs about the various different methods to relieve anxiety. This website is extremely helpful because he talks about different anxiety relief methods for the different forms of anxiety so that everybody, no matter what form of anxiety you have, can be helped: https://theanxietyguy.com/dennis-blog/
Anxiety United not only discusses methods to relieve anxiety but also explains what anxiety is and where it stems from in our brain. This can be very interesting and helpful in better understand the source of your individual anxiety: https://anxietyunited.com/
Books:
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD, by Dr. Eli Lebowitz
This new book for Parents is a step-by-step guide to implementing SPACE on your own
Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety, by Dr. Eli Lebowitz
This book covers essential information about child anxiety for parents