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Personal Story 03.06.2025

I’m Not Crazy, Just Traumatized

Don’t give up fighting for your mental health when your gut knows something’s not right either with you, or with the diagnosis you’ve been given, fight to live.

Blog post 12.05.2024

What Happens in Vegas in April Will Help The Future of Youth Mental Health: In Conversation with the #ADAA2025 Conference Co-Chairs

ADAA’s 2025 conference in Las Vegas (April 3 – 5) will focus on youth mental health, which is currently a global crisis. Drs. Fitzgerald and Forbes, this year's conference co-chairs, are dedicated to and passionate about youth mental health. Read the blog to learn more about our 2025 conference topic.

Blog post 07.23.2024

ADAA Member Book Blogs

Every quarter ADAA interviews three members for a blog that showcases new books by our esteemed experts.

Webinar 05.16.2024

A New Transdiagnostic Treatment Target for Child Anxiety: Independence

This roundtable of leaders in the field of child anxiety with the goal of discusses a refocusing of CBT on the construct of child independence to bring effective treatment to far more children, reduce clinician, parent, and child resistance to treatment, and increase effect sizes. IFT is described, and preliminary data on its effectiveness is presented. The role of resilience as an outcome of independence and a possible transdiagnostic mechanism in the treatment of child anxiety is also discussed. How to adapt independence activities for children who live in inner-city, rural, and suburban settings is discussed.

Personal Story 08.16.2023

Treat Anxiety as a Mustard Seed

Most would agree that treating invasive cancer when it is still just the size of a mustard seed has a much better prognosis than waiting and treating it when it metastasizes into a larger, less curable disease. My cancer experience makes me more resolute about treating anxiety early.

Blog post 04.20.2023

Are the Kids Really Alright? Troubling Headlines, Teenage Girls, and Declining Mental Health

The headlines and the CDC report are indeed alarming, but they should serve as a wakeup call to all of us. Yes, we should think seriously about why we are seeing a steep decline in the mental health of teenage girls, but we have to come together now as parents, family, friends, educators, clinicians, providers, and as a society to support, enhance and establish more preventive measures for our youth.

Blog post 11.09.2021

Childhood Depression and Anxiety in the Age of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has been identified as a significant factor in the deterioration of mental health in children, but the long-term effects of COVID-19 on children's mental health has yet to be seen.

Personal Story 02.25.2020

Open Doors

I am currently typing this in bed as I’m trying to avoid getting up. It is 2:13 pm and I haven’t found the motivation to start my day.

Personal Story 07.21.2019

Emo Bunny: Using Comic Art to Thrive Amidst the Chaos of Living with an Anxiety Disorder

My comic series featuring my character “Emo Bunny” is art therapy. It expresses the struggles of living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and my experiences with bullying. Pieces related to the first comic in the series, titled “Emo Bunny: Anxiety Monster” are featured in my mental health art show with SquidInk Art Gallery

Page 04.23.2015

Spread the Word

Help us spread the word about the benefits of treatment for anxiety and mood disorders, OCD, and PTSD — for children and teens, women, men, and all those suffering from related illnesses.

Personal Story 03.30.2015

No More Constant Fear

My earliest childhood memories are of constant fear. A skinny kid with crooked teeth, somewhat shy and reserved with social anxiety, I was an easy target for bullies, which made my issues even more difficult to handle. I never spoke to anyone about my feelings because I felt they were my fault.