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Greetings!
It's almost time to go back to school! As ADAA knows, this time of year is often accompanied with anxiety and stress for many students and their families in our community. To ease back to school anxiety, this issue highlights some helpful resources - from our professional members, community partners, our public community, and the media.
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ADAA Blog Posts and Webinars
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How to Beat the Back to School Blues
by Dominique Apollon, MEd,
The “unknown” is anxiety provoking for just about everyone. So how will this upcoming school year be for our teens? We don't know, and neither do they. Rightfully so, this time of year can generate lots of emotions; feelings of happiness for new school supplies, reuniting with friends, and some new back to school clothes, but it can also bring up feelings of fear.
Read more.
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Thoughts Are Just Thoughts: How to Stop Worshiping Your Anxious Mind
by Michael Stein, PsyD
If you suffer from anxiety, you probably have a contentious and complicated relationship with your mind. It feels like your mind tortures you. It gives you all these thoughts about what you should be scared of and horrible things that could happen to you.
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So You've Decided to Start Therapy for Your Anxiety…Here's How to Make It Work
by Michael Stein, PsyD
If you have made the wise decision that it is time to get help, first of all: good for you. Treatment for anxiety disorders requires a significant investment of time, energy, and effort. If you are going to invest so much, there are a few key things you can do to maximize your chances that your recovery from your anxiety disorder will be successful.
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Treating the Psychological and the Physical: Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Neurological Disorders
by Suma Chand, MPhil, PhD
There is no doubt that coping with chronic neurological illnesses can be very distressing. What is however not frequently recognized is the fact that the distress is often a full-fledged co-morbid (co-existing) psychiatric condition that is present alongside the neurological condition.
Read the blog post here.
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Getting My Smile Back
by Deb Tokarz
It’s liberating to talk about my struggles with mental illness. That is now that I’ve come out on the other side. There was a time I hid my anxiety and depression because I was embarrassed and didn’t understand my emotions. I took solace in reading about others on the ADAA website — knowing I was not alone.
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Kennedy's Story
by Kennedy Campbell
I was in the 10th grade when it happened. I was in school and I had a massive anxiety attack. But for me anxiety affects me differently and I ended up struggling in utter silence. My name is Kennedy and I have selective mutism.
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Are you interested in sharing your personal story of triumph or how you are helping ADAA raise awareness about anxiety and depression? Please let us know - we would love to feature your story or raising awareness campaign on the ADAA website and in an upcoming issue of
Triumph.
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Raffle Time! Send ADAA Your Favorite Back To School Stress Relief Tips.
New raffle alert - send your favorite back to school stress relief tips to
communications@adaa.org by
11:59pm on Sunday August 25th and we will select two winners to receive an item from the
ADAA store. We will share all of the tips in the next issue and on our website/social media platforms.
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ADAA Members in the News
- Overcoming Fear of Flying in the Bumpy Skies, New York Times, Martin Seif, PhD, ABPP
- How to Deal with Anxiety & Depression in IT Workplace Explained By ADAA, pFind, Stephen Schueller, PhD
- Is Ketamine an Opioid?, Pain News Network, Adam Kaplin, MD, PhD and Alan Schatzberg, MD
- Here’s When Hair-Pulling, Skin-Picking, or Nail-Biting Becomes a Disorder, Self.com, Suzanne Mouton-Odum, PhD
- How to Get the Most Out of Your At-Home Workout, Thrive Global, Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA
- What To Expect For Your Child In Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Anxiety UK, Jacqueline Sperling, PhD
- How To Overcome Anxiety: 7 Experts Share Stellar Strategies To Overcome Anxiety, Learn Evolve And Thrive, Stephanie Woodrow, LCPC, NCC
- Defining Resilience: The US Army and Mindfulness, Thrive Global, Martin Paulus, MD
- How To Stop August Anxiety Before It Even Begins, Refinery 29, Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA
- Do Therapy Apps Work?, Mens Health, Steven Chan, MD, PhD
- Anxiety Looks Different in Men, WSJ, Kevin Chapman, PhD, Dean McKay, PhD, and Douglas Mennin PhD
- How ‘Anxiety Disorders’ Trick Us, Psychotherapy Excellence, David Carbonell, PhD
- Fact vs. Fiction: Understanding OCD and Related Conditions, BCM, Eric Storch, 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 families to share information and experiences.
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Search
ADAA's Find-a-Therapist online directory for a therapist near you (all therapists listed are professional ADAA members.
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Ways You Can Help Support ADAA's Mission
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A Big Thank You to our Facebook Fundraisers
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ADAA would like to extend a thank you to those who choose to fundraise on our behalf- 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.
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Shop School Supplies Through AmazonSmile
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Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charity of your choice, so please buy your school supplies this year through AmazonSmile and support ADAA at the same time. Thank you.
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Fun ADAA Merch - Perfect For a Student!
Buy a gift for yourself and a loved one and support ADAA at the same time. ADAA's merch makes the perfect back to school gift. Proceeds support ADAA's mission to provide free resources to those battling anxiety, depression and co-occurring disorders.
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Thank You To Our ADAA Public Partners!
ADAA is very thankful to have such a supportive community committed to helping us raise awareness about anxiety, depression, and co-occurring disorders. We would like to thank a few of our public partners who are using their brands to help support our mission to #breakthestigma and start the conversation surrounding mental health. Shopping their brands also supports ADAA:
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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. Thank you.
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Connect with us!
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