Anxiety

Anxiety and Panic

This section covers anxiety and panic attacks, causes, treatment and support.

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The hidden half: bringing postnatal mental illness out of hidingThe Hidden Half campaign surveyed 1,000 women who had recently had a baby and found that half had a mental health or emotional problem postnatally or during pregnancy. Of these, nearly half hadn't... 23/06/2017
Long-stay rehabilitation servicesThis briefing paper finds that a minority of people with severe and complex mental health needs requiring access to rehabilitation services are facing stays of many months in inpatient services... 22/06/2017
Psychosocial interventions for self-harm, suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in children and young people: What? How? Who? and Where?We reviewed the evidence for the effectiveness of indicated individual psychosocial interventions for the treatment of self-harm, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in children and young people,... 21/06/2017
Music therapy for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders.Music therapy is a therapeutic approach that uses musical interaction as a means of communication and expression. Within the area of serious mental disorders, the aim of the therapy is to help people... 21/06/2017
Short-term adjunct of topiramate to antipsychotics in schizophrenia improves the psychopathology and has weight maintenanceEfficacy and safety of adjunctive topiramate for schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Although a previous meta-analysis showed that topiramate-antipsychotic cotreatment... 21/06/2017
Daily use of high-potency cannabis is associated with an increased risk of admission and more intervention after first-episode psychosisEffects of continuation, frequency, and type of cannabis use on relapse in the first 2 years after onset of psychosis: an observational study. Cannabis is a well-established environmental risk factor... 21/06/2017
Relative to SSRI users, SSRI statin users have fewer psychiatric hospital contacts and no increase in suicidal behaviour or all-cause mortalityObservational studies have identified inflammatory changes in depression,1 ,2 and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) suggest that depression may respond better when anti-inflammatory drugs are used... 21/06/2017
Simpler therapy may successfully treat adolescents with anorexia nervosaFamily-based treatment (FBT) is an effective evidence-based therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) and is the recommended approach to treatment at the present time. The effectiveness of other... 21/06/2017
Eating disorders: recognition and treatmentThis guideline covers assessment, treatment, monitoring and inpatient care for children, young people and adults with eating disorders. It aims to improve the care people receive by detailing the... 21/06/2017
Development of a core outcome set for disease modification trials in mild to moderate dementia: a systematic review, patient and public consultation and consensus recommendationsThere is currently no disease-modifying treatment available to halt or delay the progression of the disease pathology in dementia. An agreed core set of the best-available and most appropriate... 21/06/2017
Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementiaDementia is a clinical syndrome with a number of different causes which is characterised by deterioration in cognitive, behavioural, social and emotional functions. Pharmacological interventions are... 21/06/2017
Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) 2015: Mental Wellbeing ReportIntroduction and Background This report presents the mental wellbeing findings from the 2015 wave of the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey. The research was ... 21/06/2017
Targeted psychological interventions may prevent depression in children and adolescentsMajor depressive disorder is a leading global cause of lifelong disability, with the greatest increase in incidence occurring in mid-to-late adolescence into young adulthood. Onset in childhood... 21/06/2017
Hypersomnia: an overlooked, but not overestimated, sleep disturbance in bipolar disorder.Sleep disturbances are common across bipolar spectrum disorders. Reduced need for sleep, insomnia and hypersomnia (excessive sleep or sleepiness) are diagnostic features of illness episodes; these... 21/06/2017
Family therapy for autism spectrum disordersAutism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterised by impairments in communication and reciprocal social interaction. These impairments can impact on relationships with family members, augment stress... 21/06/2017
Mental health and community providers: lessons for integrated careIn 2015, a group of nine mental health and community provider NHS trusts came together, hosted by the Mental Health Network (MHN), to share learning and explore how the multispeciality provider model... 20/06/2017
Mental health and new models of care: lessons from the vanguardsThis report finds that where new models of care have been used to remove the barriers between mental health and other parts of the health system, local professionals saw this as being highly valuable... 26/05/2017
Status of mindThis report, published in partnership with the Young Health Movement (YHM), examines the positive and negative effects of social media on young people's health. It includes a league table of social... 22/05/2017

Links & Resources

NICE Guidance:

CG 113 Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder in adults: management. January 2011

CG 159 Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment. May 2013

Journal of Anxiety Disorders (Contains Open Access content)