Anxiety UK is a UK

United Kingdom

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 national registered charity

Charitable organization

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 formed 30 years ago for those affected by anxiety disorder

Anxiety disorder

Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety. Conditions now considered anxiety disorders only came under the aegis of psychiatry at the end of the 19th century. Gelder, Mayou & Geddes explains that anxiety disorders are...

s. It is a user-led organisation, run by sufferers and ex-sufferers of anxiety disorders. The NPS is the largest national charity dealing with anxiety in the UK.

Anxiety UK works to relieve and support those living with anxiety disorders by providing information, support and understanding via an extensive range of services and works regularly with external agencies and healthcare professionals to improve the service provision offered to those living with anxiety disorders. It also campaigns to raise awareness of anxiety disorders.

Anxiety UK offers help for the following conditions :-

• Agoraphobia
  Agoraphobia
  Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder defined as a morbid fear of having a panic attack or panic-like symptoms in a situation from which it is perceived to be difficult to escape. These situations can include, but are not limited to, wide-open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions...
  
  
• Anticipatory anxiety
• Body dysmorphic disorder
  Body dysmorphic disorder
  Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a type of mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the affected person is exclusively concerned with body image, manifested as excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of his or her physical features...
  
  
• Claustrophobia
  Claustrophobia
  Claustrophobia is the fear of having no escape and being closed in small spaces or rooms...
  
  
• Compulsive nail biting
  Nail biting
  Onychophagia, or nail biting, is a common oral compulsive habit in children and adults.-Classification:Nail biting is considered an impulse control disorder in the DSM-IV-R; the ICD-10 classifies it as "other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and...
  
  
• Compulsive skin picking
• Emetophobia
  Emetophobia
  Emetophobia is an intense, irrational fear or anxiety pertaining to vomiting. This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the action of vomiting or fear of being nauseated...
  
  
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• Health anxiety
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  Obsessive–compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions...
  
  
• Panic disorder
  Panic disorder
  Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring severe panic attacks. It may also include significant behavioral change lasting at least a month and of ongoing worry about the implications or concern about having other attacks. The latter are called anticipatory attacks...
  
  /Panic attack
  Panic attack
  Panic attacks are periods of intense fear or apprehension that are of sudden onset and of relatively brief duration. Panic attacks usually begin abruptly, reach a peak within 10 minutes, and subside over the next several hours...
  
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• PTSD
• Simple phobia and Specific phobias
• Social anxiety disorder
  Social anxiety disorder
  Social anxiety disorder , also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear in social situations causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life...
  
  
• Toilet phobia
• Trichotillomania
  Trichotillomania
  Trichotillomania, which is classified as an impulse control disorder by DSM-IV, is the compulsive urge to pull out one's own hair leading to noticeable hair loss, distress, and social or functional impairment. It is often chronic and difficult to treat....
  
  
• Depersonalisation Disorder (DD)
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
  Seasonal affective disorder
  Seasonal affective disorder , also known as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, summer blues, or seasonal depression, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer, spring or autumn...
  
   (SAD)
• Irritable bowel syndrome
  Irritable bowel syndrome
  Irritable bowel syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion. It is a functional bowel disorder characterized by chronic abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and alteration of bowel habits in the absence of any detectable organic cause. In some cases, the symptoms are relieved by bowel movements...
  
   (IBS)

They also offer help specifically for young people which cover :-

• Exam Stress/anxiety
• School phobia
• Separation Anxiety
  Separation anxiety
  Separation anxiety may refer to:*Separation anxiety disorder or Separation anxiety test*Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety, a 1995 SNES video game*Separation Anxieties, a 2000 album by 12 Rods...
  
  
• Selective Mutism
  Selective mutism
  Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder in which a person, most often a child, who is normally capable of speech is unable to speak in given situations, or to specific people...
  
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• Specific phobias
• Social Phobia
  Social phobia
  Social phobia may refer to any of the following conditions:* Social anxiety disorder – a diagnosis referring to clinically excessive social anxiety...
  
  
• Generalised anxiety disorder

The therapies offered are clinic

Clinic

A clinic is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients...

al hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.The word "hypnosis" is an abbreviation of James Braid's term "neuro-hypnotism", meaning "sleep of the nervous system"....

, Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming is an approach to psychotherapy, self-help and organizational change. Founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder say that NLP is a model of interpersonal communication and a system of alternative therapy which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective...

, Cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling, along with telephone counselling and email help.

Anxiety UK have recently announced the loss of funding. This has come at the worst possible time as anxiety problems have increased 400% since the credit crisis developed. Research from YouGov

YouGov

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 SixthSense has revealed that 21% of Britons are affected by anxiety today.

In April Anxiety UK announced two new patrons, Simon Webbe

Simon Webbe

Simon Solomon Webbe is an English singer-songwriter, actor and music manager. He is best known as a member of the British boyband Blue.-2001–2005: Early Career And Blue:...

 and Marcus Trescothick

Marcus Trescothick

Marcus Edward Trescothick MBE is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals. A left-handed opening batsman, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in 1993 and quickly established...

. They are joined by Denise Welch

Denise Welch

Jacqueline Denise Healy is an English actress, dancer and television presenter.-Early life:Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann and has a younger sister Debbie...

who has been a patron for a number of years and has herself suffered with mental health problems.