Archive for November 25th, 2007|Daily archive page
Help and Support #1 – Anxiety/Panic, OCD, Phobias
Filed under: Help and Support | Tags: Anxiety, Dental Fear, Mental Health, OCD, Panic Attacks, Phobias, Self-Help, Stress
Leave a Comment No Panic offers a full range of services for people who suffer from Panic Attacks, Phobias and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder including, literature, audio and video cassettes, a membership scheme and “contact” book service wherein members are able to make pen-friends or phone friends with other people who have similar problems.
This site provides valuable information for sufferers and carers of people with Panic, Anxiety, Phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD).
Site created by an OCD sufferer looking at OCD from the sufferers point of view.
Dedicated to all the individuals out there suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, anger and associated symptoms.
Anxiety Care is a registered charity based in East London that specialises in helping people to recover from anxiety disorder and to maintain that recovery. With the support of our trained volunteers, clients are enabled to plan, initiate and carry through personal recovery programmes using cognitive behavioural techniques and gradual exposure exercises.
Largest and Longest Serving UK National Charity for People Affected by OCD Spectrum Disorders
OCD-UK is the leading national charity, independently working with and for people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Information about OCD for young people
National Non-Profit Mental Illness Advocacy Organization
The web’s biggest Dental Phobia, Dental Fear and Dental Anxiety Resource
Anxiety Alliance is run by former anxiety sufferers, so they fully understand the physical feelings and negative thoughts that sufferers have.
First Steps to Freedom is a registered charity which aims to help, in a practical way, those who suffer from phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (excessive washing, checking, unwanted thoughts etc.), general anxiety, panic attacks, anorexia and bulimia, and those who wish to come off tranquillisers, together with help for their carers.
UK charity for everyone’s mental health
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales.
SANE was established in 1986 to improve the quality of life for people affected by mental illness.
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
SA-UK is a volunteer-led organisation
Triumph Over Phobia (TOP UK) runs a national network of self-help groups to help people with phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to overcome their problems using graded self-exposure.
Christmas #1 – A Sweet Tooth
Filed under: Christmas | Tags: Chocolate, Christmas, Gift Ideas, Presents, Seasonal, Sweet Tooth, Sweets
Leave a Comment Chocolate Buttons offers Gourmet & Old Fashioned Sweets (some good stocking fillers here for kids too) which includes long forgotten treats such as Pear Drops, Rhubarb & Custard, Rosy Apples and Fizz Balls. There are also various Christmas treats, selection boxes and more. Worth a look.
Dark Sugars sells some beautiful rich chocolates. How about Peach strips soaked in peach schnapps dipped in 70% couverture chocolate
Hotel Chocolat offers some delicious chocolates including The Chocolatier’s Table which for £38 offers 65 pieces of chocolate like Melt-away truffles, smooth pralines, zingy real fruit creations, nibbly nuts, caramel, pure chocolate including single estate, soft buttercreams, manons and more.
Thank Heaven For Chocolate offers some attractive sets and includes novelty chocolates including the lovely handmade giant mosaic chocolate bar. This is nine chunky tiles of milk, dark and white chocolate generously decorated with a luxury array of nuts, fruits and marshmallows made by James Chocolates and presented in a purple box for £30 (postage included).
The Chocoholic’s Dream by John Lewis is slightly more expensive at £50 but offers Bovetti chocolat blanc marbre noir, Chesters of St. Andrews Cappuccino flavoured chocolate beans, Dormen’s Belgian chocolate jumbo peanuts, Green & Blacks organic hazelnut chocolate spread, Guylian Belgian chocolate powder, Chocca Mocca luxury chocolate coated biscuits and Lir cafe truffles. A gift sure to be well appreciated!
Harrods offer a range of choices that wont break the bank including a nice indulgent treat – Christmas pudding biscuits for £4-50!
Debenhams provide the answer to “What does £50 worth of jellybeans look like?”. Don’t eat them all at once!
Green and Blacks Stock a wide range of gifts that will suit most budgets
Thorntons are ever dependable when it come to attractive gifts for any occasion including Christmas of course. Look out for their blueberry and raspberry fudge!
