Joey Laguio remembers waking up every morning in high school with a sense of dread.

"It felt like always being chased by something," said Laguio, now 33 and living in Vancouver.

After he enrolled in engineering at the University of British Columbia, his first major panic attack hit. Breathing was hard and he trembled, consumed with worries over what others thought of him, he said.

From a counsellor in Vancouver, Laguio learned that he had anxiety, and was referred to Anxiety Canada, a registered charity offering resources online for people with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

"The specific resources were helpful to me because I could access them at any time I wanted to and also because they were a good complement to the therapy I was doing," Laguio said.

Now, however,

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