--- title: Anxiety & Depression description: This topic covers the psychological and biological factors underlying anxiety and depression. Learners will understand common symptoms, evidence-based therapeutic approaches, and practical strategies for managing mental health challenges. category: health-medicine subcategory: health-and-wellness difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/anxiety-and-depression --- # Anxiety & Depression This topic covers the psychological and biological factors underlying anxiety and depression. Learners will understand common symptoms, evidence-based therapeutic approaches, and practical strategies for managing mental health challenges. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. HelpGuide.org Mental Health HelpGuide's nonprofit collection of articles on anxiety disorders, covering symptoms, types such as panic and generalized anxiety, and evidence-based self-help techniques. Readers learn to recognize anxiety symptoms, apply practical coping strategies, and judge when professional treatment is needed. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.helpguide.org/mental-health/anxiety **Tags:** anxiety-disorders, self-help, coping-strategies, panic-attacks ### 2. Psychology Tools A clinician resource site providing free and paid worksheets, information handouts, and treatment guides for cognitive behavioral therapy and other evidence-based approaches, designed to support therapists in session planning and client psychoeducation. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.psychologytools.com/ **Tags:** psychotherapy, cbt, clinical-psychology, mental-health, clinician-resources ### 3. adaa.org ADAA.org is the Anxiety & Depression Association of America, offering expert information on anxiety, depression, and related disorders, along with self-help resources and coping strategies. It also provides educational articles, webinars, and a directory of qualified therapists. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://adaa.org **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ### 4. nimh.nih.gov NIMH.nih.gov is the National Institute of Mental Health’s official site, offering evidence-based information on mental illnesses (including anxiety and depression), their symptoms and treatments, coping strategies, and up-to-date research, news, and clinical-trial resources for patients, families, and professionals. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nimh.nih.gov **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ## Podcasts ### 1. The Hilarious World of Depression **Author:** John Moe Public radio podcast in which host John Moe talks with comedians and other guests about their experiences of clinical depression and related conditions, treatment and recovery. Listeners hear frank accounts that reduce stigma and show how people live with and manage depression. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1181589175 **Tags:** depression, lived-experience, stigma, mental-health, recovery ### 2. The Anxious Achiever **Author:** Morra Aarons-Mele Interview podcast hosted by Morra Aarons-Mele on anxiety, depression and mental health at work, pairing personal stories from leaders with clinicians and researchers. Listeners gain practical ways to manage anxiety in a career and to lead or support anxious colleagues. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-anxious-achiever-6898999572757041155/ **Tags:** anxiety, workplace-mental-health, leadership, depression, emotional-resilience ## Courses ### 1. Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health **Author:** Sonia Kumar University of Sydney course on Coursera presenting positive psychiatry, which pairs treating mental illness with building strengths and wellbeing. It surveys major mental disorders, their causes and treatments, medication and psychotherapy, and evidence-based self-help strategies such as exercise, relaxation and social connection. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/positive-psychiatry **Tags:** positive-psychiatry, mental-health, mental-disorders, wellbeing, psychotherapy ### 2. The Science of Well-Being **Author:** Laurie Santos Yale course taught by Laurie Santos on the psychology of happiness, covering common misconceptions about what makes people happy, cognitive biases behind them, and evidence-based practices such as gratitude, savoring and exercise. Learners complete weekly rewirement exercises and build one sustained wellness habit. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being **Tags:** positive-psychology, happiness, well-being, habit-formation, behavior-change ## Books ### 1. The Upward Spiral **Author:** Alex Korb A UCLA neuroscientist explains the prefrontal, limbic and reward circuits that keep depression and anxiety self-reinforcing, then shows how small changes in exercise, sleep, decision-making, gratitude and social contact can shift that brain activity toward gradual recovery. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1626251207?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ### 2. The Noonday Demon **Author:** Andrew Solomon National Book Award-winning study of depression that combines the author's own breakdowns with interviews, history, biology, treatments and social politics, giving readers a broad understanding of how the illness is experienced, explained and treated across cultures and centuries. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0099277131?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/anxiety-and-depression