About HardAnxiety: This is my online journal, a tool I can use to write about my progress through recovery. I have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Type 2:Ultra-Radian Cycling and Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia and also Codependencey.
 
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History of my disorder

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What are Panic Attacks, Agoraphobia, and Anxiety?

What is Bipolar type 2 and ultra radian cycling?

Guide to my Anxiety Levels and What's it Like?

About the codependency dysfunction

The Fight-or-Flight Response

What if? Thinking

Coping skills I use

Coping with Medication Side-Effects

Breakthroughs
Abandonment Breakthrough

Anger Management and Defense Mechanisms - Just a sad game?

Other
Wandering in a Dream of Emptiness, a poem.

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Below is the workbook I am curently using, it's a great workbook, and I recommend getting the accompanying book, Facing Codependence, from the same authors.

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Unfortunately, my links page is growing smaller, as many of my favorite sites have, for whatever reason, ceased to exist. If you have suggestions for links, feel free to email me.

About Panic Disorder
I find myself visiting this site more and more often to get information on research and political issues on mental health reform that I surprisingly don't find elsewhere.
I highly recommend this site to just about everyone, it covers every topic surrounding anxiety, panic, depression, etc, has a forum, links to sites, including blogs such as my own. Run by Cathleen Hemming as part of the great about.com website this is a great place to start when looking for information, and Cathleen also sends out email newsletters that you can sing up for like I have that often have timely abstracts of articles posted on the website.

The Panic Life.
This is a blog, run by a young woman who has an anxiety disorder, and like me, she posts how she struggles with it every day. She tells it just like it is.

WebMD
With more than 15 million visitors every month, WebMD Health is the leading consumer-focused healthcare information Web site. Our mission is to be the most objective, credible and trusted source of consumer healthcare information that helps people play an active role in managing their own health. At WebMD Health, consumers can access health and wellness news, support communities, interactive health management tools and more. Our online communities and special events allow consumers to participate in real-time discussions with experts and with other people who share similar health conditions or concerns.
I read this site often to get accurate, general information on any physical symptoms I experience, you may also want to check out their Mental Health Section

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders. At the heart of NAMI's mission is the sharing of information with consumers (i.e., persons with mental illnesses), their families, friends, mental health professionals, and the general public. NAMI educates all people about severe and persistent mental illnesses to eliminate stigma and promote access to integrated systems of care, education, and rehabilitation. Research is constantly providing us with new information about the brain and the nature of mental illnesses and, consequently, more effective treatments.
I read this site often to learn about medications, especially this page: Information on Illnesses and treatments

Internet Mental Health
Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long. I refer to this site often to read up on side-effects on medications, it is very informative.

Codependents Anonymous
Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and fulfilling relationships. We rely on the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions for knowledge and wisdom. These are the principles of our program and guides to developing honest and fulfilling relationships. Through applying the Twelve Steps and principles in CoDA to our daily life and relationships, both present and past, we can experience a new freedom from our self-defeating lifestyles and realize a new joy, acceptance and serenity in our lives.

Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety
The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety produces a good cassette tape program that has helped me quite a bit in my struggle with panic attacks and has a good accompanying workbook.
Attacking Anxiety will teach you how to control the symptoms, how to prevent severe anxiety, how to stop negative worrisome thoughts, and how to control your emotions. It will provide the resources for you to become confident, assertive and independent.
The also have a very good forum that is pretty active on a daily basis. The forum is located here: Stess Center Support Forum

Reading your body.
When you're not feeling well, how do you determine what's wrong with you? You probably go to a doctor, someone who is trained to read bodies. However, many illnesses and conditions depend on your own interpretation of your body.

The Meadows- an inpatient recovery treatment center
I wanted to enroll in this program, I think it sounds very great but the costs were too prohibitive, but I thought it was a good link anyway because they seem to have the best in-patient treatment available.
The Meadows is a privately owned, freestanding facility located in the foothills of the Great Southwestern Desert. It offers treatment for a broad range of behavioral disorders, psychological conditions and addictions such as alcohol, drugs, sex and work. Additionally, many other compulsive behaviors such as eating disorders, love addiction, and codependency are addressed.

WebMD Health and Nutrition
The WebMD Content Staff blends award-winning expertise in content creation, community services, expert commentary, medical review, and aggregation of licensed resources to give our site users a variety of ways to find what they are looking for. And that, we believe, requires dedicated, full-time staff professionals with state-of-the-art expertise in: Health news for the public, Creating and maintaining up-to-date medical reference content databases, Medical imagery, graphics, and animation, Communities, Live Web events, User experience, Interactive tools ,

Psychology and mental health at Psych Central
Regularly maintained by John and an assistant, it is one of the Net's best annotated guides to the most useful Websites, newsgroups, and mailing lists online today in mental health, psychology, social work, and psychiatry. It receives between three and four thousand visitors per day and acts as a reliable and accurate source of mental health information for the over twenty million visitors which have stopped by since it was first introduced.
They also have a good forum.

One Step At A Time
OneStepAtATime.com was founded by Psychologist, Gene Benedetto as a web site that allowed him to stay in touch and offer maintenance services to his clients he has seen in his private practice. Although the site certainly met that need, he quickly found that www.OneStepAtAtime.com was attracting members from around the world who wanted and needed support that they were not receiving elsewhere. The site was therefore expanded to offer more services to meet the needs of those individuals suffering from low self esteem, panic attacks, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive issues.
They also have a forum if you sign up for their membership, which is free, unless you want more personalized one-on-one contact with a therapist, which you have to pay for. I currently use the basic free membership and it fits my needs.

Med Help International - Mental Health Forum
Questions posted in this forum are being answered by Roger L. Gould, M.D., author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the U.C.L.A. Department of Psychiatry
They have a pretty active forum that's worth checking out. I also suggest looking at their page about relationship issues, The Signs of a Troubled Relationship
The pattern is all too common. One moment your relationship is riding a wave of warmth, love and intimacy. But the next moment coldness, anger and blame creep in.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the nation’s leading patient-directed organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses – depression and bipolar disorder. The organization fosters an understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically-based tools and information written in language the general public can understand. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments and discover a cure. The organization works to ensure that people living with mood disorders are treated equitably.

Go On And Live - help with relationships for depressed people.
Relationships and Depression

  • Defeating isolation
  • If someone you love is depressed

Close relationships are an important and wonderful part of the human experience. If you are experiencing depression, nothing is more important than the support and encouragement of your friends and family. Strong relationships are cemented by unconditional love -- when you are depressed, you are every bit as deserving of love as when you are well. Reconnecting with your loved ones and beginning to spend quality time with them again is an important and healthy step in reaching GOAL!

Suicide.Com There is Hope
We are dedicating this site to provide resources in helping to share hope with those who are hurting. Our primary goal is to share hope through the stories of others who have been though hard times and survived. We are also a resource for different sites with related topics.

Suicide Hotlines and Help
For when you feel you can't go on... some encouraging words and a chance at making it through another day until you can get the help and the courage you need.
Also look at Colorado Psycho's suicide prevention page

 

 
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