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Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Patient treatment manual (pdf)
Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder
Most People are Optimists - Except for Lawyers
recommended links
Depression Is Real Coalition
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ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives -
Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation -
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
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Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
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Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information -
David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - e-couch free personal self-help guide
- EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
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Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
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National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
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Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
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Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia -
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
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South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
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tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource -
The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
we support
"just don't smoke"
Yul Brynner
- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
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Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results
- Smoking doesn't burn fat
- Smoking linked to sagging breasts
- No evidence waterpipes decrease smoking harm
- Tobacco smoke + alcohol damage hearts more than either alone
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
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Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
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Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
- Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award Over Interrogation Policy
- Guantanamo Medical Role Likened to South Africa Under Apartheid
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
monument, Monmouth County
New Jersey.
Depression advocacy group opposes proposed antidepressant labeling change
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) today announced its opposition to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent recommendation to extend black box warnings on antidepressants that suggest that young adults up to the age of 25 are at an increased risk of suicide when they take the medications.
DBSA and other mental health advocacy groups have expressed concern about the impact of extending the warnings to adults, which had previously been limited to use of antidepressants in children.
"As an organization we have consistently called for research data on the impact of antidepressants so that patients and their doctors can make informed decisions," said Gloria Pope, DBSA's director of advocacy and public policy. "But the recent recommendation to the FDA may have a chilling effect on the legitimate use of antidepressants by young adults, ultimately increasing the risk of suicide for people under the age of 25."
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is America's leading patient-directed organization focusing on depression and bipolar disorder. The organization, which has more than 1,000 support groups nationwide, fosters an understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically based tools and information.
please some help me. I to the point that I just want to well I don't know what to do . I suffer from agoraphobia since 1999-2000 and I haven't been out of the house since Sep unless someones my son comes for me. Well every one who know how sick I've been just do it for your self. I've tried but it doesn't work I need a support group and can't find one. Anyone out there that might know of one please respond. thanks
Hi Joanna,
Having been at the same stage a few times in the last 20 years I understand how frustrating being housebound can be. However, it is possible to overcome this either with cognitive, behavioral therapy, medication or a combination of both.
It appears you live on Long Island which is fortunate because NYC has some of the best psychiatrists and CBT/REBT therapists in the business.
As for support groups, try:
Consumer Link Tel
Long Island Phobia Associates are in Setauket and Hicksville but I don't have any contact details. Maybe the phone book does.
For professional help try the following cognitive therapists:
Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services Tel:
The Psychological Center at Stony Brook UniversityWebsite
William C. Sanderson
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Hofstra University
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Hempstead, NY
John C. Guthman
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Hofstra University
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Hempstead, NY
Craig S. Litman
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1926 Oakland Avenue
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Wantagh, NY 11793
Barbara Bradley Bolen
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17 Conklin St #2fl
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Farmingdale, NY
Kerry A. Betensky
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70 Glen Cove Road
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Suite LL3
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East Hills, NY
Olivia N. Velting
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1 Expressway Plaza
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Suite 110
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Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
Peter J. D'Amico
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Long Island Jewish Medical Ctr
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New Hyde Park, NY