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DanBC · 2012-03-17
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buy / borrow these books, and work through them
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Over-Mood-Change-Changing/dp/08...)
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Anxiety-Helen-Kennerley/d...)
Find a friend to help give you a poke now and again.
Here's an Australian website that is often recommended.
(http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome)
A few weeks work will drastically reduce anxiety.
{Start-up idea: MoodGym but better.)
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/treatmentswellbeing/an...
There was a discussion on here recently which had some evidence of the "therapy is even better than SSRIs", but therapy is a lot more expensive as a treatment I think. Like in the UK it's £45 per session.
Here in the UK I know you can get 6 weeks therapy on the NHS, but as the article laments, it just stops even if you're not cured which seems bizarre and there's a waiting list which doesn't help in the case of severe anxiety when you need help now.
On the other hand, you can get fairly inexpensive self-help books which you can use to teach yourself a lot of the CBT techniques:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Anxiety-Self-Help-Behavio...
Which isn't even mentioned in the article.