Anxiety

Becca's story: "I have been on quite a journey"

Becca shares a powerful story about her experiences with mental health problems, including a lack of support from school.

Mental health statistics: anxiety

Anxiety is a type of fear usually associated with the thought of a threat or something going wrong in the future, but can also arise from something happening right now.

Mental health statistics: the most common mental health problems

Mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental health disorder in Britain.

Sarah's Story: Living with Agoraphobia and Panic Attacks

I first remember things changing when I was 18 years old. I was at work and I had a falling out with a boyfriend and felt like I couldn't breathe. My hands filled with pins and needles and as I stood up to get some fresh air, I passed out. I also hyperventilated: something that I had never experienced before. I was taken to hospital to be checked out but I was fine. A couple of months later, I passed out again, this time in a department store when I was just walking around. A few years later, my social life started to become affected. I'd be going out to meet friends, get to their house to...

Janet's story: Reclaiming madness - a search for one's true self, following sexual abuse

Giving background information about myself or writing a few lines about who I am is where I start feeling resistance. Resistance to an attempt at producing the understandable story. Trigger warning: Janet's story describes her experiences of sexual abuse and rape. I've tried that too many times in my life - to explain things to others and to explain things to myself. Madness meant asserting the right to be tired of that, madness was daring not to be explainable and understandable, and I try to keep the memory of being that right and that daring. Every time I tried to satisfy someone else's or...

Barry's story: Tourette's and true love

Barry has Tourette's syndrome, which causes him a lot of stress and tension.

Anna Williamson: My battle with anxiety

Anna Williamson is a TV presenter who has worked on CITV, Daybreak and GMTV.

James' story: "Mindfulness isn't all 'airy-fairy' like I thought it was"

James, 21, is from West Yorkshire. He is studying business and economics and is in his final year of university.

How effective can mobile games be for alleviating anxiety?

21 October 2015, Guest Blogger

Janice Sinson Award winner Quynh Pham shares her story of evaluating a mobile game which claims to help alleviate anxiety, panic and hyperventilation: