About Anxiety Care

Anxiety Care is a registered charity based in East London that specialises in helping people to recover from anxiety disorder and to maintain that recovery. This involves helping to plan, initiate and carry through personal recovery programmes. Research shows that most sufferers are able to undertake this structured work without input from the psychiatric services, although it can be a lot easier to do with the help of a skilled volunteer such as can be provided by Anxiety Care.

Support from Anxiety Care may be short- or long-term according to need. In the home region this can be through face-to-face counselling and/or attendance at the mutual support and recovery groups, or the Confidence Building group. Home visiting by trained self-help assistants can also be arranged. Outside the region, or where the mentioned services are not appropriate, support can be offered via the charity Helpline, e-mail, one-to-one work (by arrangement) in the online chat-room, or the regular online chat-room groups. There is also a structured online recovery service (see to the left of this page) for people who wish to engage in this level of recovery work.

Current research suggests that up to a quarter of the population will experience an anxiety disorder during their lifetime. It is also the most common mental health disorder occurring in adolescents with as many as 13% of 9-17 year-olds having the problem in any one year. One doctor states that anxiety disorder may dominate sufferers' lives and that only chronic heart disease produces more disability.

It can be seen from this that anxiety disorder is a legitimate and potentially disabling problem. It should not be ignored for this simply allows the disorder the opportunity to grow worse. If you think that you or a member of your family may have an anxiety disorder, look at the extensive free literature on this site. It covers a wide range of anxiety and allied problems including a section on guilt, obsessional thinking across the disorders, and a booklet for carers.

Helpline: 020 8478 3400

e-mail: enquiries@anxietycare.org.uk