You may think that these common habits will relax you, but don't be fooled — they might add to your stress instead.

For these activities, try completing the task long enough for your anxiety intensity scale rating to go down, until the task starts to feel easier, or until you feel more confident in your ability to ...

As parents, fostering healthy stress relief skills early on is crucial. Engaging kids in activities that promote relaxation, ...

Fourth, if you are the scattered-brain type, try fidgeting. That’s right, tapping your foot, or a pencil, or fiddling with your hair, is a reasonably effective way of increasing your ability to ...

Anxiety becomes a disorder when it consumes too much mental activity or interferes with activities and performance. For more see Anxiety: Is It an Illness? What Are the Types of Anxiety?

Anxiety at night is a common feeling of fear or worry that makes it hard to fall or stay asleep, but it’s not a special class ...

Explore our wellbeing activities and exercises for primary and secondary school students, children, and teenagers and help young people be kind to themselves. Children and young people experience ...

Mild social anxiety. If your SAD is mild, you may experience symptoms but still be able to take part in social activities - or at least get through them. You’re more likely to have ...

When you’re overwhelmed with stress, you may feel like curling up in a ball and not know how to pull yourself out of the funk. From watching hours and hours of TV to pretending the stress isn ...