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Greetings!
With the start of the new year, it's the perfect time to make new resolutions, including one to make your mental health a priority this year! Here a few helpful resources to get you started:
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Win a Fun ADAA Gift! Share Your Favorite Mental Health Meme or Quote
New raffle alert! Send your favorite mental health meme or quote to
communications@adaa.org by
11:59pm ET on Friday January 18th, 2019 and we will enter you into a raffle to win an ADAA store item of your choice! Be sure to include your full name in your email. We will select 3 winners and share their memes/quotes in the next newsletter and on ADAA’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram platforms.
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New!
ADAA Member
Blog Posts
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It Gets Better: How Do You Talk to Your Loved One Suffering With Depression?
by Suma Chand, MPhil, PhD
"I have often had my patients with depression tell me that they wished they had a major physical illness like cancer because people would then treat them with more understanding. What they are trying to convey is the fact that depression is often not viewed as the serious illness that it is and they don’t get the understanding or support that they long for."
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Welcome to Adulthood – Now What? - Understanding How Stress Impacts Your Mental Health
by Vasiliki Michopoulos, PhD
Congratulations! You’ve graduated from college, landed your first adult job, and have moved across the country away from family and friends to enter the work force. Now what?? While these are all amazing accomplishments that highlight your transition into independence and adulthood, they also are big life changes (especially all at once) that can be very stressful.
Read more.
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Top 5 Strategies to Cultivating Your Mental Health
by Lindsay Israel, MD
Modern life keeps us very busy.We find ourselves ignoring the fundamentals like our health, family, friends, community etc. All that neglect causes dysfunction in our lives. We try desperately to fix the problem after it becomes a significant issue. In other words, we are attempting to reverse the damage once it has already become a disorder.
As a physician, this neglect is something I see among my patients every day.
Read more.
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New!
ADAA Taking Action - Raising Awareness Supporters
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ADAA is partnering with the ‘I Know’ Project, which brings together Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti, the TouchPoint Solution, Singing for Superheroes and Michael Thomas & BJ Goodson of the New York Giants to shine a bright light on children’s anxiety. This amazing group of people, bound by the desire of helping kids, created a beautiful song & video that provides inspiration and hope to millions of children who suffer from anxiety. As equally important, the ‘I Know’ Project helps bring essential awareness to an often misunderstood and quiet illness.
Read more here.
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"When I started Homebody Apparel, I thought it would just be a fun side project to make some extra money and try something new. When I really started working on it, however, it quickly became much more to me...
...I want to partner with ADAA to accomplish a few things. Firstly, I want to help raise awareness of social anxiety as well as raising awareness of the chances for help people really have, I want to help organizations (such as ADAA) help people who are actively struggling, and thirdly, I want to raise awareness of this brand. I want Homebody Apparel to be seen as an example of what good can come of a bad situation."
Read more here.
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Recent ADAA Members
In The News
- OCD and Emetophobia, Psych Central, Steven Seay, PhD
- What is OCD? A Psychologist Answered all of our Questions about this Misunderstood Disorder, Hello Giggles, Jenny Yip, PsyD, ABPP
- The Politics of Fear: How Fear Goes Tribal, Allowing Us to be Manipulated, The Conversation, Arash Javanbakht, MD
- How to Handle a Panic Attack at Work, US News and World Report, Amy Przeworski, PhD
- Can Skype Help Seniors Beat the Blues?, US News and World Report, Philip Muskin, MD
- Cleaning Influencers Swear That Housework Can Reduce Your Stress, Thrive Global, Reid Wilson, PhD
- To Feel Happier, We Have to Resolve to the Life We Evolved to Live, The Conversation, Arash Javanbakht, MD
- How Do I Deal With Nighttime Anxiety?, Tonic VICE, Michelle Lozano, MFT
- 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Better Mental Health, WTOP, Kathariya Mokrue, PhD and Patricia Thornton, PhD
- 11 Interesting Lesser-Known Symptoms Of Anxiety Therapists Want You To Know About, Bustle, Helen Odessky, PsyD
- What Does Anxiety Look Like for You?, Future of Personal Health, Jonathan Alpert, MD and Simon Rego, PsyD
- PSP 099: Helping Kids with Harm OCD an Interview with Jon Hershfield, AnxiousToddlers, Jon Hershfield, MA, LMFT
- 6 Ways to Manage Holiday Depression and Reinvigorate the Season, Lohud, Simon Rego, PsyD
- How Can I Keep My Anxiety About One Thing From Affecting Other Things?, Tonic. VICE, Michelle Lozano, MFT
- Powerful Photos Show What Life With Depression Is Really Like, Huffington Post., Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA
- The One Word You Shouldn't Say To Someone With Anxiety Or Depression, Huffington Post, Elizabeth Duval, PhD and Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD
- How to Stop Anxiety from Controlling Your Life, Seth Gillihan, Joel Minden, PhD
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ADAA's Online Support Groups
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ADAA's anonymous peer-to-peer online anxiety and depression support groups (English and Spanish communities) are a friendly, safe and supportive place for individuals and their families to share information and experiences.
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Our ADAA professional members author excellent self-help books about anxiety, depression and co-occurring disorders.
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Search
ADAA's Find-a-Therapist online directory for a therapist near you (all therapists listed are professional members of ADAA).
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Are you interested in sharing your personal story of triumph or raising awareness with ADAA?
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Ways To Support ADAA's Mission
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We Love Our Facebook Fundraisers!
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ADAA would like to extend a huge thank you to those who choose to fundraise on behalf of ADAA - your generosity makes a critical difference. You and your Facebook friends can support causes that are important to you (like ADAA!) by raising funds and awareness right on Facebook.
Read more and start your own fundraiser today.
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Shop AmazonSmile and Support ADAA!
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Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charity of your choice. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. Select ADAA on AmazonSmile and support our work with every item you purchase! Thank you.
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If you have a question, are interested in learning more about a particular topic, and/or would like to share your ideas or story, please email us at
information@adaa.org.
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Anxiety and Depression Association of America | 8701 Georgia Ave. Suite 412 | Silver Spring, MD 20910 240-485-1001 |
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