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Anxiety
When worry starts taking up too much space.
Understand everyday anxiety, anxiety disorders, physical symptoms, avoidance, and evidence-based approaches to treatment.
Explore Anxiety →Wayside Mental Health Library
Understand more.
Feel less alone.
A growing library of clear, compassionate psychoeducation designed to help adults better understand mental health, recognize patterns, and make informed decisions about support.
Why this library exists
Understand what you’re experiencing, not just what it’s called.
Wayside Mental Health’s Resource Center provides evidence-based, accessible mental health education designed to help you better understand symptoms, diagnoses, treatment options, and when professional support may be helpful.
These resources aren’t intended to diagnose you or convince you that every difficult experience is a disorder. They’re here to help you ask better questions, make informed decisions about your care, and understand yourself more clearly.
You do not need to diagnose yourself before asking for help.
Self-Assessment & Screening
Sometimes a few questions can help you know what to explore next.
Brief, evidence-informed screening tools can help you reflect on symptoms and patterns you may be experiencing. They are educational tools and are not a substitute for diagnosis or individualized clinical assessment.
Explore Screening Tools →Start with the Anxiety Check-In
Use the GAD-7 to reflect on anxiety symptoms during the past two weeks. Your score is calculated in your browser, your answers are not stored, and the result includes context rather than a diagnosis.
Begin the Anxiety Check-In →Explore
Mental Health Resources
Evidence-informed information on common mental health and relationship concerns, written to be clear, compassionate, and clinically accurate.
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Depression
Depression doesn’t always look like sadness.
Explore how depression can affect mood, energy, motivation, relationships, and everyday functioning.
Explore Depression →Available now
Trauma & PTSD
What happened matters. So does what you learned to do to survive it.
Learn how trauma can affect emotions, relationships, safety, and the body, and understand when trauma becomes PTSD.
Explore Trauma & PTSD →Available now
Adult ADHD
Recognizing yourself in the symptoms is a reason to become curious, not a diagnosis.
Understand adult ADHD, different presentations, assessment, overlapping conditions, and treatment.
Explore ADHD →Available now
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is more than “mood swings.”
Understand mania, hypomania, and depression, including important differences between Bipolar I and Bipolar II.
Explore Bipolar Disorder →Available now
Grief & Loss
There is no perfect way to grieve.
Understand how grief can affect everyday life, why it does not follow a fixed timeline, and when additional support may help.
Explore Grief & Loss →Available now
Alcohol & Substance Use
You don’t have to reach rock bottom to become curious about your relationship with alcohol.
Understand Alcohol Use Disorder, levels of severity, substance-use patterns, treatment options, and different pathways toward change.
Explore Alcohol & Substance Use →Available now
Relationships & Family
Sometimes the problem isn’t one person. It’s the pattern between people.
Explore communication, trust, boundaries, recurring conflict, trauma, family patterns, and relationship repair.
Explore Relationships & Family →Available now
Stress & Burnout
Being productive doesn’t necessarily mean you’re well.
Understand chronic stress, occupational burnout, exhaustion, and how to recognize when something more may be happening.
Explore Stress & Burnout →Available now
Self-Esteem & Identity
Who are you outside of who you’ve needed to be?
Explore self-worth, identity, perfectionism, roles, life transitions, and the experiences that shape how you see yourself.
Explore Self-Esteem & Identity →Not Sure Where to Start?
That’s okay.
Mental health rarely fits neatly into one category.
Anxiety can affect sleep. Trauma can look like anxiety. ADHD can resemble chronic stress. Grief can coexist with depression. Alcohol may begin as a way of managing something else entirely.
You don’t need to determine which diagnosis fits before you begin learning.
Start with the experience that feels most familiar. Explore more than one resource if needed. Good assessment is partly about understanding how the pieces fit together.
When Information Isn’t Enough
Learning can be a beginning.
Learning can help you understand what you’re experiencing. Sometimes the next step is having someone help you make sense of it personally.
Dr. Tiffany Way, LCSW, provides psychotherapy for adults experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, ADHD, grief, alcohol and substance use concerns, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions.
You do not need to arrive knowing your diagnosis.
Come with what you’re experiencing. We can begin there.
About Our Mental Health Resources
Evidence-informed. Human-centered. Written to educate.
Wayside Mental Health resources are developed using established clinical guidance and current mental health research. Sources are provided on each resource page so you can explore the evidence for yourself.
These resources are educational and are not intended to provide an individual diagnosis or replace professional medical or mental health care.
Last reviewed: September 2026