Type of service: Family support and information services, Helplines

Website: http://www.nopanic.org.uk

No Panic can provide the following: .

• A confidential helpline that is staffed by trained volunteers on 0800 138 8889 and is available from 10 am to 10 pm everyday. This number also doubles as a night time anxiety line, which is an answer phone service only.
• Telephone recovery groups.
• For members who wish to make pen pals, No Panic provides a “Contact Book” service.
• Books, Literature, CD's and DVD's can be provides to help with anxiety disorders.
• Provides simple, easy to follow step-by-step written recovery programmes and guides for phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
• Advice and support for people trying to come off of tranquillizers is available.
• Information to raise public and professional awareness of the issues created by anxiety disorders.
• Lay-person self help cognitive behaviour therapy as a basis for recovery.
• Information and support is available for the families and carers of sufferers.
• Information in ethnic languages.
• Information on starting and running local face-to-face groups.

Membership to No Panic costs £12.00 per year and provides its membership a regular bi-monthly newsletter, access to our highly recommended telephone recovery groups, a recommended reading list, information on local groups if they are available and a contact booklet for those who have opted to be included in it. No Panic always tries to meet the needs of people who have visual impairments; we provide our literature and newsletters in CD form or large print format. If this applies to you, please phone us at our Head Office on 01952 680460 and we will endeavour to help you. .

Aimed at: Adolescent , Adult , Adult sibling, Child , Child/adolescent sibling, Parent/carer of a child, Parent/carer of an adult, Partner

Gender: All genders

Specialisms: Has autism-specific elements