Self-Help Group For Anxiety, Depression

A free self-help group for anxiety, panic disorder, depression, OCD and other nervous fears now meets every Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Garden City at the corner of Chester Avenue and New Hyde Park Road. It is one of more than 800 groups of its kind held by Recovery International, a worldwide organization formed in 1937 that uses self-help methods that parallel those used in cognitive therapy.

Through the Recovery International process, members learn to manage stress, panic, anxiety, depression, anger, irrational fears, phobias, compul-sions, obsessions and other emotional or behavioral problems. Members also learn how to face and manage psychoso-matic symptoms such as heart palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, sweats, fatigue, headaches, numbness, chest pressure and sleep problems. This is accomplished by identifying and managing negative thoughts, feelings and beliefs and replacing them with healthy thinking.

All group leaders are trained lay volunteers who have experienced some type of difficulty with an emotional problem and practice the Recovery International method of self-help. For more information, call Steve at (516) 652-8560 or visit www.recovery-inc.org.