One in a series of self-help workbooks for use by those experiencing depression. Course allows access to the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy approach to treatment. Provides sequenced series of questions designed to bring about change.

Overcoming Anxiety is divided into workbooks that are designed to help those experiencing mild to moderate levels of anxiety and panic. The first workbooks will aid the reader in identifying and assessing the extent of their clinical problems. During sessions with a healthcare professional the client can decide which workbooks will be most helpful for their condition and work on the exercises at their own pace at home.

Because obsessive thoughts are so scary and upsetting, the person with obsessive-compulsive disorder may try to avoid them or prevent harm occurring as a result.

You may have friends or relatives who are very scared of animals such as spiders, or of situations such as heights, or you yourself may have such fears.

A person who finds they worry about very many things in life they are sometimes described as having problems of Generalised Anxiety.

Altered behaviour may add to anxiety in two key ways – avoidance and unhelpful behaviours.

In anxiety, the person feels troubled, unsettled and uneasy in himself or herself. At high levels of anxiety this can reach the level of intense fear seen in panic.

Thinking can alter in various ways when panic or phobias occur. You may experience unhelpful thinking styles, such as jumping to the worst conclusion.

Assertiveness is being able to stand up for yourself, making sure your opinions and feelings are considered and not letting other people always get their way. It is not the same as aggressiveness.

Depression, anxiety and the very high levels of sudden-onset anxiety known as panic, together affect more than one in five people at some time in their lives.