For more information about mental illness or anxiety disorders:
The National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
6001 Executive Boulevard
Room 8184, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD 20892
(866)615-6464
The Anxiety Disorders Association of America
http://www.adaa.org
8730 Georgia Avenue, Suite 600
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(240)485-1001
http://www.teenshealth.org/
This is a very friendly site for parents, kids, and teens containing frank information about physical and mental health.
http://panicdisorder.about.com
This is a wonderful site that features information about anxiety disorders, articles, online journals, as well as a forum to post questions and messages related to anxiety disorders.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank my parents and my sister for being wonderfully strange; all my girls: Adrienne Glasser, Amy Wilson, Annica Lydenberg, Emily Dauber, Emily Haisley, Emily Kozlow, Katie Brian, Melissa Mandelker, and Nicole Duncan for being the best and prettiest girls I know; Barry Goldensohn and Ralph Ciancio for being brilliant and inspiring professors; Dr. Michael Kahan, M.D., and Sharon Flory, L.C.S.W.; and David Levithan, editor and superhero, for understanding how much I needed to tell this story—and how much it needed to be heard.
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