panic attacks

Offers over one hundred quizzes, activities and tips based on cognitive behavioral therapy to help teens overcome anxiety.

Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has not left his house in three years, but Lisa is determined to change that--and to write a scholarship-winning essay based on the results.

Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has not left his house in three years, but Lisa is determined to change that--and to write a scholarship-winning essay based on the results.

A young girl is worried about her first day of school.

At the age of eleven, Rita Zoey Chin began to run away from home because of her parents' violence and neglect. She was in search of a better life. But what she found on the street was danger and predatory men, as well as the occasional kindness from a stranger. The grown-up Rita survived her harrowing childhood and became a prizewinning poet and the wife of a successful neurosurgeon. She thought she had put the past behind her until she began to have a series of debilitating panic attaks that threatened her comfortable existence. And then the chance arrival of a spirited, endearing horse named Claret, who had a difficult history himself, arrived and saved Rita from herself.

Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love--and capturing every moment of it on her blog. But Noah has a secret, too, one that threatens to ruin Penny's cover--and her closest friendship--forever.

Discusses panic disorder and panic attacks, answering questions about the illness and how it can affect teens; and provides information about treatment, recovery, and prevention.

Explains the difference between anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic attacks, explores possible causes, and suggests treatments, including drugs, therapy, and deep-breathing techniques.

A psychotherapist discusses anxiety and panic disorders, examines their causes, and provides advice for their treatment through stress management procedures, medicinal methods, and professional assistance.