Anxiety
Summary: Anxiety is a natural response to stress, involving heightened anticipation, worry, or fear, along with increased arousal and tension. People feel varying levels of anxiety ranging from mild to moderate symptoms. If not addressed, anxiety can become a mental health concern. These free resources can help.
For individuals
A buildup of stressful thoughts can lead to feelings of anxiety. Paying attention to your body’s sensations and what is happening in your surroundings can keep you in the present moment and help you to reduce anxious feelings.
Having a better understanding of what your stressors are can help you to eliminate, address or change the source of your stress. Managing stress provides helpful techniques and tips to better respond to and minimize your stress.
If you feel like stress is negatively impacting your quality of life, Manage anxious or depressive thoughts has easy-to-use activities and audio clips to support you in protecting you overall mental and emotional well-being.
Initiating a conversation with someone who appears to be struggling with anxiety can feel heavy. Someone you care about appears anxious is a resource that offers questions, tips and strategies to help you start a supportive conversation.
For leaders
Workload stress arises from factors like an overwhelming quantity of assignments, inadequate resources, unrealistic deadlines, and unclear expectations. Leaders can help reduce employee stress by clarifying task priorities and expectations, encouraging breaks, and fostering a space where employees can express their concerns or needs about the work assigned to them.
Any change in an organization or to an employee’s role has the potential to cause stress. Helping employees to manage change offers supportive strategies for leaders trying to get their teams on board with company changes, plus ways to retain employees once change is implemented.
Anxiety articles and resources
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation:
This collection of activities, videos and audio clips can help you manage stressful, anxious or depressive thoughts through self-regulation techniques.
Learn how to manage your reactions to stress and protect your well-being.
When employees struggle with workload stress, it’s important to focus on easing the stress rather than just lowering the quantity of work, especially when they’re only working regular hours.
Questions and strategies to help you have a supportive conversation when someone you care about appears anxious.
Any organizational change may have an unsettling impact on employees. You can help through thoughtful planning, effective communication, and engaging employees in exploring how changes can be handled in a psychologically safe way.
Links to free evidence-based apps, some with paid options, which can help with your mental health and wellness. The list includes apps for Windows, IOS and Android devices.
Tools and resources for managing your own health and wellness, as well as information for helping others. Find credible information about managing well-being and mental health-related concerns.
Information on how to work successfully while being neurodivergent or living with attention deficit disorder (ADHD), anxiety, autism, depression, dyslexia, menopause, or stress.
Ask yourself these questions to get a picture of what's going on with you right now. Take this list to your health professional to help them provide you with wellness options.
Use this checklist to assess how you are feeling right now. Take this list to your health professional to help them provide you with wellness options.