Social Anxiety Disorder: Web Resources

The Social Anxiety Association is a nonprofit organization that promotes the understanding and treatment of social anxiety disorder. This website provides a definition and background information, current news about the disorder (such as treatments), a list of therapy groups around the world, and invitations to subscribe to a mailing list and join their Facebook community.

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) is an international nonprofit membership organization that focuses on the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety disorders, depression, and co-occurring disorders (such as post-traumatic stress disorder). This website contains general information and statistics on social anxiety disorder, among many other disorders.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) was started as a grassroots movement in 1979. NAMI provides education and raises awareness on mental illness. This page on anxiety provides an overview of the disorder, support, treatment options, and discussion boards (login required).

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is a leading federal agency for research on mental disorders. This website provides an overview to the definitions, signs and symptoms, and treatments and therapies of many different anxiety disorders. This website also has publications about anxiety disorders that are in the public domain and can be reproduced without copyright infringement.

From the homepage: "The ADA is one of America's most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstream of American life." This website is a guide to the ADA with main pages on law/regulation, design standards, technical assistance material, and enforcement.

Anxiety Slayer is a website with free blogs and podcasts revolving around PTSD, panic attacks, stress, and anxiety and is managed by two award-winning podcasters, authors, and anxiety coaches. This website also allows users to freely subscribe to an emailing list that sends the most updated blogs/podcasts posted to the website.