Skip to content
  • Mental Health Issues
    • Anxiety
    • ADHD
    • Bipolar Disorder
    • Depression
    • Grief
    • Narcissism
    • OCD
    • Personality Disorders
    • PTSD
  • Relationships
    • Dating
    • Marriage
    • Sex & Intimacy
    • Infidelity
    • Relationships 101
    • Best Online Couples Counseling Services
  • Wellness
    • Anger
    • Burnout
    • Stress
    • Sleep
    • Meditation
    • Mindfulness
    • Yoga
  • Therapy
    • Starting Therapy
    • Types of Therapy
    • Best Online Therapy Providers
    • Online Therapy Reviews & Guides
  • Medication
    • Anxiety Medication
    • Depression Medication
    • ADHD Medication
    • Best Online Psychiatrist Options
  • Reviews
    • Best Online Therapy
    • Best Online Therapy with Insurance
    • Best Online Therapy for Teens
    • Best Online Therapy for Anxiety
    • Best Online Therapy for Depression
    • Best Online ADHD Treatments
    • Best Online Psychiatry
    • Best Mental Health Apps
    • All Reviews
  • Therapy Worksheets
    • Anxiety Worksheets
    • Depression Worksheets
    • Relationship Worksheets
    • CBT Worksheets
    • Therapy Worksheets for Kids
    • Therapy Worksheets for Teens
    • All Therapy Worksheets
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Policy
    • Advertising Policy
    • Find a Local Therapist
    • Join Our Free Directory

Join our Newsletter

Get helpful tips and the latest information

Choosing Therapy on Facebook
Choosing Therapy on Instagram
Choosing Therapy on Twitter
Choosing Therapy on Linkedin
Choosing Therapy on Pinterest
Choosing Therapy on Tiktok
Choosing Therapy on Youtube
ChoosingTherapy.com Logo

Newsletter

Search Icon
  • Mental Health Issues
    • Anxiety
    • ADHD
    • Bipolar Disorder
    • Depression
    • Grief
    • Narcissism
    • OCD
    • Personality Disorders
    • PTSD
  • Relationships
    • Dating
    • Marriage
    • Sex & Intimacy
    • Infidelity
    • Relationships 101
    • Best Online Couples Counseling Services
  • Wellness
    • Anger
    • Burnout
    • Stress
    • Sleep
    • Meditation
    • Mindfulness
    • Yoga
  • Therapy
    • Starting Therapy
    • Types of Therapy
    • Best Online Therapy Providers
    • Online Therapy Reviews & Guides
  • Medication
    • Anxiety Medication
    • Depression Medication
    • ADHD Medication
    • Best Online Psychiatrist Options
  • Reviews
    • Best Online Therapy
    • Best Online Therapy with Insurance
    • Best Online Therapy for Teens
    • Best Online Therapy for Anxiety
    • Best Online Therapy for Depression
    • Best Online ADHD Treatments
    • Best Online Psychiatry
    • Best Mental Health Apps
    • All Reviews
  • Therapy Worksheets
    • Anxiety Worksheets
    • Depression Worksheets
    • Relationship Worksheets
    • CBT Worksheets
    • Therapy Worksheets for Kids
    • Therapy Worksheets for Teens
    • All Therapy Worksheets
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Policy
    • Advertising Policy
    • Find a Local Therapist
    • Join Our Free Directory
  • Connection Between Anxiety & Memory LossConnection Between Anxiety & Memory Loss
  • How Anxiety Causes Memory LossHow Anxiety Causes Memory Loss
  • Other Memory Loss CausesOther Memory Loss Causes
  • How to CopeHow to Cope
  • When to Seek HelpWhen to Seek Help
  • In My ExperienceIn My Experience
  • Additional ResourcesAdditional Resources
  • InfographicsInfographics
Anxiety Articles Anxiety Anxiety Treatment Anxiety Types Online Therapy for Anxiety

The Link Between Anxiety & Memory Loss

Headshot of Maggie Holland, MA, MHP, LMHC

Author: Maggie Holland, MA, MHP, LMHC

Headshot of Maggie Holland, MA, MHP, LMHC

Maggie Holland MA, MHP, LMHC

Maggie predominantly serves women struggling with anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and perinatal mental health concerns.

See My Bio Editorial Policy
Headshot of Heidi Moawad, MD

Medical Reviewer: Heidi Moawad, MD Licensed medical reviewer

Headshot of Heidi Moawad, MD

Heidi Moawad MD

Heidi Moawad, MD is a neurologist with 20+ years of experience focusing on
mental health disorders, behavioral health issues, neurological disease, migraines, pain, stroke, cognitive impairment, multiple sclerosis, and more.

See My Bio Editorial Policy
Published: June 9, 2023
  • Connection Between Anxiety & Memory LossConnection Between Anxiety & Memory Loss
  • How Anxiety Causes Memory LossHow Anxiety Causes Memory Loss
  • Other Memory Loss CausesOther Memory Loss Causes
  • How to CopeHow to Cope
  • When to Seek HelpWhen to Seek Help
  • In My ExperienceIn My Experience
  • Additional ResourcesAdditional Resources
  • InfographicsInfographics

Anxiety can cause a physical response in the brain, inhibiting your short-term recall and potentially causing memory loss. While anxiety-related memory loss can be frustrating, you can mitigate it by managing your anxiety and improving your physical self-care. Additionally, if your anxiety-related memory loss severely impacts you, it’s essential to seek professional help to manage your anxiety.

Anxiety Worksheets

Anxiety Worksheets

Our anxiety worksheets are designed to help you understand your anxiety, develop effective coping skills, and better manage challenging moments.

View Anxiety Worksheets
ADVERTISEMENT

Would You Like to Have Less Anxiety?

Anxiety is treatable with therapy. BetterHelp has over 30,000 licensed therapists who provide convenient and affordable online therapy. BetterHelp starts at $65 per week and is FSA/HSA eligible by most providers. Take a free online assessment and get matched with the right therapist for you.

Free Assessment

What’s the Connection Between Anxiety & Memory Loss?

Anxiety disorders are mental health disorders categorized by persistent worry, anxiety, and overwhelm, and they can take up a lot of mental energy. Because anxiety disorders use so much mental energy, they often also inhibit our memory from working properly by making it difficult to retain and recall information.

Common symptoms of anxiety-related memory loss include:

  • Forgetting where you parked your car
  • Trouble remembering why you went into another room or what you need at the store
  • Repeating yourself in conversations because you can’t remember if you’ve said it or not
  • Forgetting important dates, such as a birthday or anniversary
  • Problems with the order of operations to complete daily essential tasks, such as driving or cooking
  • Misplacing things like your keys, wallet, or phone
  • Trouble recalling important details, such as directions or landmarks to someone’s house
  • Making mistakes on tasks that you know well

Panic Attacks & Memory Loss

People who experience panic attacks often notice an impact on their memory, particularly right before and during a panic attack. Panic attacks happen when a person experiences excessive fear or anxiety, triggering physical reactions that override the brain’s rational and normal processing.

The reason people with panic attacks experience memory loss more consistently is because of the body’s stress hormone: cortisol. Cortisol inhibits the brain’s ability to recall information because its job is to keep you focused on the present moment to survive. Due to the intensity of the fear in a panic attack, the body creates even more cortisol than someone experiencing an anxiety disorder.

How Can Anxiety Cause Memory Loss?

Anxiety symptoms, including constant fear, uncontrollable worry, and sleep disturbances, can all impact memory significantly. Managing anxiety symptoms drains mental energy, leaving little behind to store memories properly. As a result of this mental drain, having an anxiety disorder can impact both long- and short-term memory.

Our long-term memory is created by consolidating information over a longer period of time. When we expend mental energy through anxiety and avoiding stressors related to long-term memories, our brain may struggle to organize and metabolize information. Additionally, anxiety may work to block the retrieval of stored information. Anxiety also heavily impacts our short-term (or working memory) because it causes distracting mental multitasking that makes it temporarily difficult to hold many pieces of information.

Some ways in which anxiety can lead to memory loss include:

Increased Cortisol Levels

Cortisol is the stress hormone responsible for our fight-flight-freeze survival mode. When your body and brain register danger, your body produces cortisol and adrenaline,  activating your body to respond to the threat. While this is great for responding to threats occasionally, people with anxiety tend to have sustained elevated levels of cortisol – inhibiting the ability to recall memories because your brain is more focused on surviving.1, 2

Lack of Sleep

Unfortunately, lack of sleep and anxiety go hand-in-hand because anxiety can make it challenging to get to sleep, stay asleep, and get quality sleep. Not only does a lack of sleep affect mental health, but it can also lead to memory loss. When you sleep, your brain works on consolidating your memories from the day, particularly when it comes to procedural memories related to skills and tasks and declarative memories related to recalling facts.3 Sleep and anxiety have a bidirectional relationship (they impact each other), which means both impact your memory.

Distracted Thinking

Anxiety is a consuming and powerful distractor that usually doesn’t leave mental space for much outside of anxious thoughts and worries. By spending half your mental energy on getting through the day and the other half on playing through anxious thoughts, your brain isn’t left with much energy to consolidate memories. This not only disrupts your ability to take in and recall details and procedures but also to consolidate your memories that are responsible for the outline of who you are and who you want to be outside of your anxiety.

Memory Repression/Avoidance

If a person has anxious or traumatic memories, it’s natural for the brain to repress and avoid thinking about them as protection from continuing to experience emotional pain. While you may not forget the experience entirely, avoiding thinking about this can blur the details because it’s blocking your short-term and long-term memory from consolidating that memory.4 If you’ve struggled with generalized anxiety disorder for any significant portion of your life, your brain may be working hard to block memories throughout that entire period.

Disruption of Working Memory

Your working memory, or short-term memory, helps you remember information while actively using it. Working memory is crucial to doing tasks without mistakes, completing assignments, problem-solving, multitasking, and staying focused throughout the task.

Working memory is heavily impacted and disrupted by worry and anxiety.5 This is because all the mental resources that your working memory needs to perform well (spatial awareness, verbal comprehension, executive functioning, etc.) are consumed by the things you’re worried about and are anxiously perseverating on.6

ADVERTISEMENT

Options for Anxiety Treatment

Talk Therapy – Get help from a licensed therapist. Betterhelp offers online therapy starting at $60 per week and is FSA/HSA eligible by most providers. Free Assessment

Psychiatry for Anxiety – Looking for anxiety treatment that prioritizes you? Talkiatry can help. Find an in-network psychiatrist you can see online. Get started with our short assessment. Visit Talkiatry

Other Causes of Memory Loss

While anxiety can heavily impact memory loss, there are also other mental health concerns that could contribute to memory loss. Depression, bipolar disorder, general emotional distress, and trauma can also cause memory loss. Some mental health disorders can impact your memory and cortisol levels similarly to anxiety, and some mental health disorders can have an element of dissociation involved that inhibits memory storage and retrieval.

Memory loss could also result from a physical condition, such as tumors, blood clots, thyroid, kidney, or liver disorders, medication side effects, and lack of proper nutrition.7 While it is critical to make sure you’re managing your stress levels and anxiety, it’s also important to make sure you tend to other issues that may be contributing to memory loss, as it could indicate a more pervasive problem.

Some conditions that may cause memory loss include:

  • Childhood trauma
  • Brain tumors
  • Regular substance use
  • Dissociative mental health disorders: bipolar, schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder
  • Head injuries
  • Stroke
  • Medication side effects
  • Alzheimer’s disease or dementia

How to Cope With Memory Loss & Anxiety

The first thing to consider when coping with memory loss and anxiety is to tune into your current self-care strategies and be honest with yourself about where you might have gaps that need to be filled. If you believe your memory loss is anxiety related, using a combination of physical self-care and anxiety/stress management tools will likely give you the most noticeable benefits.

Eight ways to cope with memory loss and anxiety include:

1. Practice Mindfulness

Staying present in the current moment will not only help you become more aware of your anxiety triggers, but it will also help you to deal with feeling overwhelmed and anxious, helping to mitigate any memory loss associated with anxiety. There are many ways to begin incorporating mindfulness, including mindfulness for beginners, specific mindfulness for anxiety, and through mantras for anxiety.

2. Learn Relaxation Techniques

The next most important thing to do in calming your anxiety is to signal to your brain and body that you’re safe enough not to have to rely on anxiety. This can be done through relaxation techniques, such as meditation for anxiety, paced breathing, grounding exercises that help you be present, deep sighing and singing, and kind, gentle touch with a trusted person.

3. Improve Your Sleep

Since anxiety and sleep impact each other, and both can impact memory loss, improving sleep can help improve anxiety and memory loss. There are many ways to improve your sleep, including creating a bedtime routine, improving your sleeping environment, and managing nighttime stimuli. This will improve not only your cognitive functioning but your overall physical health as well.

4. Challenge & Change Your Thinking Patterns

Noticing, challenging, and changing your thinking patterns is an anxiety-focused process that manages worry and overwhelm by changing how your brain processes information over time. The more often you practice this, the easier it will get to pause your anxiety.

Some helpful questions to ask yourself to begin this process are:

  • What belief is informing this anxious thought?
  • Is it undeniably true?
  • How is it helping me? How is it hindering me?
  • Could I replace this with something more neutral, helping, or true?

5. Start Journaling

Anxiety often feels mindless or automatic, so it can be incredibly hard to be more mindful, notice and challenge your thinking patterns, and to even recognize when your stress levels could benefit from relaxation techniques. Writing things down can not only help you to remember them, but it can also help you to see patterns and get to know yourself and your anxiety better. If you don’t know where to start, journal prompts for anxiety can help get you started.

6. Get Physically Active

Moving your body can help you to manage anxiety in a multitude of ways – it diverts your attention from your worries and onto the activity you’re doing, releases feel-good endorphins, reduces muscle tension, and helps to process stress and cortisol out of your body. There is also some research that suggests that physical activity directly improves your working memory’s functioning, so adding in physical activity could address both concerns.8, 9

7. Properly fuel your brain

Your body runs all kinds of processes all day, every day (even when you’re sleeping), so making sure it has the proper nutrition to fuel these processes is key for both managing your anxiety and for improving your memory. Eating a balanced diet, regularly eating throughout the day, managing your caffeine and alcohol intake, properly hydrating, being mindful of your sugar intake, and ensuring that you’re getting all of your essential vitamins and minerals are all things that can majorly impact your anxiety – and by extension, your memory’s performance.

8. Work your brain in new ways

Although your brain gets plenty of daily work, exercising your brain by using it in new ways can help improve your memory and cognitive functioning. Visualization, playing card or board games, completing puzzles – including jigsaw, sudoku, and crossword puzzles, learning a new skill or language, and engaging in sports are all good options that have been shown to affect your brain functioning and memory positively.10, 11, 12

ADVERTISEMENT

Would You Like to Have Less Anxiety?

Anxiety is treatable with therapy. BetterHelp has over 30,000 licensed therapists who provide convenient and affordable online therapy. BetterHelp starts at $65 per week and is FSA/HSA eligible by most providers. Take a free online assessment and get matched with the right therapist for you.

Free Assessment

When to Seek Professional Help

If you notice that your anxiety and memory loss are inhibiting your functioning in multiple areas of your life (family, work, school, self-care, etc.), or if it’s severely impacting you in one area, it may be time to consider professional help. If you believe your memory loss is anxiety based, you can consider therapy, medications, or a combination. Memory loss based on physical concerns should be addressed with your primary care doctor.

Therapy

Therapy can help people deal with symptoms of memory loss and anxiety by working to manage symptoms and by working through the underlying cause of the anxiety. There are many options for anxiety therapy that can accommodate a variety of personal preferences and underlying causes. If anxiety is causing or impacting your memory, therapy can be a good option to help mitigate memory loss.

Therapeutic interventions for anxiety include:

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): CBT for anxiety focuses on identifying and changing anxious thinking patterns that perpetuate anxiety.
  • Exposure Therapy: Exposure therapy focuses on facing fears by gradually increasing exposure to stressful stimuli to “rewire” your brain not to react so severely.
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT helps tackle anxiety by helping a person to identify their values and live their life according to those values instead of living according to anxiety.
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR helps people to reprocess traumatic memories by stimulating the brain in new ways.

Medication

Sometimes improving your self-care and working with a therapist is not enough to fully manage your anxiety, particularly if you’re struggling with a neurochemical imbalance. It is often helpful to add medications for anxiety to your treatment plan to help you gain traction and see results. Medication is often prescribed by a psychiatrist, general medical doctor, or ARNP, and there are options for online psychiatrists as well.

Commonly prescribed medications for anxiety include:

  • Benzodiazepines: Benxodiazepines, which include Xanax, induce feelings of calm by increasing the neurotransmitter GABA in the brain.
  • Antidepressants: Antidepressants include SSRIs and SNRIs. SSRIs work to increase serotonin levels, while SNRIs work to increase both serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain.

In My Experience

In my experience, working with patients that struggle with anxiety, memory loss, and difficulties with recollection is common. It’s important to remember that anxiety doesn’t come out of nowhere – it develops as a way for people to try to keep themselves safe. Seeking treatment can be a powerful tool to help you feel safe in new ways to live a life that’s authentic to you and recall all the essential things you need to function! While treatment can take time, most patients do see and feel relief in treatment with consistent and honest effort. It’s important to remember that some anxiety is unavoidable, but you can learn to manage and tolerate the necessary anxiety in life.

Additional Resources

To help our readers take the next step in their mental health journey, ChoosingTherapy.com has partnered with leaders in mental health and wellness. ChoosingTherapy.com is compensated for marketing by the companies included below.

Therapy for Anxiety & Medication Management

Brightside Health – develops personalized plans that are unique to you and offers 1 on 1 support from start to finish. Brightside Health accepts United Healthcare, Anthem, Cigna, and Aetna. Appointments in as little as 24 hours. Start Free Assessment

Anxiety Diagnosis & Treatment

Circle Medical – Affordable and accessible anxiety evaluations and treatment. Diagnosis and prescription over video. Insurance accepted. Same day appointments. Visit Circle Medical

Learn Mindfulness, Meditation, & Relaxation Techniques

Mindfulness.com – Change your life by practicing mindfulness. In a few minutes a day, you can start developing mindfulness and meditation skills. Free Trial

Anxiety Newsletter

A free newsletter from the experts at ChoosingTherapy.com for those impacted by anxiety. Get helpful tips and the latest information. Sign Up

ChoosingTherapy.com Directory 

Find local therapists that offer online and in-person therapy. Search for therapists by specialty, experience, insurance, and location. Find a therapist near you.

For Further Reading

  • Helpful Anxiety Resources
  • Support Groups | Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA
  • Do Memory Problems Always Mean Alzheimer’s Disease? | National Institute on Aging
  • Best Anxiety Podcasts
  • YouTube Channels for Anxiety
  • Best Anxiety Blogs

SPONSORED
Online Anxiety Test

Online Anxiety Test

A few questions from Talkiatry can help you understand your symptoms and give you a recommendation for what to do next.

Take Test
Best Online Therapy for Anxiety of 2024

Best Online Therapy for Anxiety

Anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world. To find the best online therapy for anxiety, we reviewed over 50 providers. Our evaluation focused on their geographic coverage area, cost, convenience, extra features, and more. Our top recommendations are based on more than three years of research and over 250 hours of hands-on testing. Read on to see our top picks for the best online anxiety counseling platforms.

Read more
Best Online Psychiatry Services

Best Online Psychiatry Services

Online psychiatry, sometimes called telepsychiatry, platforms offer medication management by phone, video, or secure messaging for a variety of mental health conditions. In some cases, online psychiatry may be more affordable than seeing an in-person provider. Mental health treatment has expanded to include many online psychiatry and therapy services. With so many choices, it can feel overwhelming to find the one that is right for you.

Read more

The Link Between Anxiety & Memory Loss Infographics

Common Symptoms of Anxiety-Related Memory Loss   How Anxiety Can Lead to Memory Loss   Ways to Cope With Memory Loss and Anxiety

Find a therapist in your state

Get the help you need from a therapist near you

City or zip Search

California
Connecticut
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia

Are you a Therapist? Get Listed Today

Anxiety newsletter

A free newsletter for those impacted by anxiety. Get helpful tips and the latest information

Sources Update History

ChoosingTherapy.com strives to provide our readers with mental health content that is accurate and actionable. We have high standards for what can be cited within our articles. Acceptable sources include government agencies, universities and colleges, scholarly journals, industry and professional associations, and other high-integrity sources of mental health journalism. Learn more by reviewing our full editorial policy.

  • Rosnick, C. B., Rawson, K. S., Butters, M. A., & Lenze, E. J. (2013). Association of Cortisol with Neuropsychological Assessment in older adults with generalized anxiety disorder. Aging Mental Health, 17(4), 432–440. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2012.761673 

  • Ackermann, S., Hartmann, F., Papassotiropoulos, A., de Quervain, D. J.-F., & Rasch, B. (2013). Associations between basal cortisol levels and memory retrieval in healthy young individuals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(11), 1896–1907. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00440 

  • Potkin, K. T., & Bunney, W. E. (2012). Sleep improves memory: The effect of sleep on long term memory in early adolescence. PLoS ONE, 7(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042191 

  • Cammarota, M., Bevilaqua, L., Medina J., et al. Studies of Short-Term Avoidance Memory. “Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging.” Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; 2007. Chapter 10. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3917/

  • Balderston, N. L., Vytal, K. E., O’Connell, K., Torrisi, S., Letkiewicz, A., Ernst, M., & Grillon, C. (2016). Anxiety patients show reduced working memory related DLPFC activation during safety and threat. Depression and Anxiety, 34(1), 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22518 

  • Vytal, K. E., Cornwell, B. R., Letkiewicz, A. M., Arkin, N. E., & Grillon, C. (2013). The complex interaction between anxiety and cognition: Insight from spatial and verbal working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00093 

  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). Do memory problems always mean alzheimer’s disease? National Institute on Aging. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/do-memory-problems-always-mean-alzheimers-disease 

  • Lambourne K. The relationship between working memory capacity and physical activity rates in young adults. J Sports Sci Med. 2006 Mar 1;5(1):149-53. PMID: 24198692; PMCID: PMC3818667.

  • Russo, G., Ottoboni, G., Tessari, A., & Ceciliani, A. (2021). The positive impact of physical activity on working memory abilities: Evidence from a large Italian pre-adolescent sample. Journal of Human Sport and Exercise – 2021 – Autumn Conferences of Sports Science. https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2021.16.proc2.13

  • Padilla, L. M., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Hegarty, M., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018). Decision making with visualizations: A cognitive framework across disciplines. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0120-9 

  • Krell-Roesch, J., Vemuri, P., Pink, A., Roberts, R. O., Stokin, G. B., Mielke, M. M., Christianson, T. J., Knopman, D. S., Petersen, R. C., Kremers, W. K., & Geda, Y. E. (2017). Association between mentally stimulating activities in late life and the outcome of incident mild cognitive impairment, with an analysis of the APOE ε4 genotype. JAMA Neurology, 74(3), 332. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3822 

  • Fissler, P., Küster, O. C., Laptinskaya, D., Loy, L. S., von Arnim, C. A., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2018). Jigsaw puzzling taps multiple cognitive abilities and is a potential protective factor for cognitive aging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00299

     

Show more Click here to open the article sources container.

We regularly update the articles on ChoosingTherapy.com to ensure we continue to reflect scientific consensus on the topics we cover, to incorporate new research into our articles, and to better answer our audience’s questions. When our content undergoes a significant revision, we summarize the changes that were made and the date on which they occurred. We also record the authors and medical reviewers who contributed to previous versions of the article. Read more about our editorial policies here.

April 14, 2025
Author: No Change
Reviewer: No Change
Primary Changes: Added Anxiety Workbook with nine worksheets.
Show more Click here to open the article update history container.

Your Voice Matters

Can't find what you're looking for?

Request an article! Tell ChoosingTherapy.com’s editorial team what questions you have about mental health, emotional wellness, relationships, and parenting. Our licensed therapists are just waiting to cover new topics you care about!

Request an Article

Leave your feedback for our editors.

Share your feedback on this article with our editors. If there’s something we missed or something we could improve on, we’d love to hear it.

Our writers and editors love compliments, too. :)

Leave Feedback
ChoosingTherapy.com Logo White
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Careers
  • Editorial Policy
  • Advertising Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

FOR IMMEDIATE HELP CALL:

Medical Emergency: 911

Suicide Hotline: 988

View More Crisis Hotlines
Choosing Therapy on Facebook
Choosing Therapy on Instagram
Choosing Therapy on X
Choosing Therapy on Linkedin
Choosing Therapy on Pinterest
Choosing Therapy on Tiktok
Choosing Therapy on Youtube

© 2025 Choosing Therapy, Inc. All rights reserved.

X