Anxiety is widespread these days, but all cases are not created equal. There’s typical anxiety that is quite manageable and then there’s a range of anxiety disorders which are more serious, diagnosable, and treatable with therapy and/or medication. How do you know the difference and how do you handle each one?
Explore CATCH’s 2-Minute Video Series
Dr. Karen Cassiday offers practical guidance for parenting anxious children by accepting imperfection, tolerating discomfort, and reducing overprotection.
Discover five practical strategies to shift negative thinking, including adopting a growth mindset, reframing unhelpful thoughts, asking questions, changing your mental “channel,” and practicing radical acceptance.
One anxious parent explains how validation, compassionate limits, and listening helped her son handle disappointment and changed the way she responded.
A personal poem offers an honest glimpse into what it feels like to live with persistent anxiety and feel misunderstood by others.
A parent reflects on holiday stress, family expectations, and why choosing simplicity, even mac and cheese, can sometimes protect everyone’s well-being.
A young writer reflects on the loneliness of invisible OCD symptoms, years of masking, and the imperfect but meaningful connection found through therapy.
A mother reflects on the exhausting worry of parenting a child with mental illness and the difficult work of trusting her daughter’s resilience.
A parent examines how assumptions about another family changed after mental illness entered her own life and invites readers to replace judgment with compassion.
A recent graduate shares the hidden reality of contamination OCD, the courage it took to seek therapy, and the hope that followed.
GoZen! creates online social and emotional learning programs for kids ages 5-15 and their parents. Their mission is to teach kids skills to transform stress, anxiety, worry, anger, perfectionism, negativity, and social worry into POWER. And on the GoZenLove Instagram account, founder of Go Zen, Renee Jain shares amazing tips for kids, teens and their parents about anxiety-relief, mindfulness, positive thinking and goal setting.
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