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Helpful
Links
for those who panic
Richard C. Raynard, Ph.D., "The Panic Doctor", offers links to helpful website resources regarding anxiety, panic, phobias, OCD, PTSD and related conditions. In addition there are resources which offer helpful information regarding general health issues important to those who panic. We hope you find these helpful.
Associations
www.helping.apa.org/
American Psychological Association's Help Center is your online resource for brochures, tips and articles on
the psychological issues that affect your physical and emotional well-being, as
well as information about referrals.
www.apa.org/topics/
American Psychological Association's list of on-line psychology topics.
www.adaa.org/
The Anxiety Disorders
Association of America (ADAA) is the only national, non-profit organization
solely dedicated to informing the public, healthcare professionals and
legislators that anxiety disorders are real, serious and treatable.
www.healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR2131.htm
Healthfinder is a guide to reliable health information, sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services).
Treatment
Information
www.psych.org
Much information about mental disorders on this one site, in easy to read and navigate and in attractive style
www.athealth.com
A clean, uncluttered site for lay and professionals to look up treatments, resources, and therapists. It has a weekly
newsletter, a medication database, a bookstore and more.
www.mentalhealth.com
A site for treatment information, offering research citations and bibliographies of many disorders. Encyclopedic in
size, but short on links to other sites.
www.queendom.com
A place for online tests and quizzes, as well as advice and factual articles on hundreds of topics. It has a forum and is
health-minded.
www.mentalhealth.org
A general picture of diagnosis and treatment, encyclopedic, it offers research and books on many disorders, though spotty on
psychotherapy.
www.mentalhelp.net
This covers resources only in mental health with large listings of professional and lay resources online. It reviews and
rates these resources based on its search engine and reader
feedback.
www.newsisfree.com
This site finds the latest news headlines for any keyword or phrases. It is free and gets trusted, reliable news.
www.medscape.com
Oriented towards medical topics, but has considerable information on mental health in the psychiatry
section.
www.cmhc.com
Finds clinicians and therapists in mental health as well as medical specialties. The bio and credentials are fairly
complete.
www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov
This is a free, most updated site to get to the Medline database, one of the largest, published by the National Library of
Medicine.
www.MDchoice.com
A good research site to treatment of hundreds of various physical illnesses, such a arthritis, allergies,
etc.
www.AHRQ.gov
For those who want to make informed, evidence-based decisions aboout their healthcare. An abundance of health care information,
safety evaluation, quality and effectiveness.
www.healthfinder.gov
Informative and extensive search guide linking hundreds of websites, some with phone numbers and addresses to
real-world contacts, most connected to US Goverment
sources.
Supplements /
Complimentary Medicine
www.lef.org
The leading quide to alternative and supplmentary therapies, such as vitamins, herbs, and nutracils, combining both traditional
and complimentary medicine.
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