Word: anxious
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...Anxious seekers of over-the-counter emergency contraception must continue to find an alternate plan. But it certainly won’t be Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, or “morning-after pill,” that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed unfit for over-the-counter distribution last May. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency...
...more accurate to understand psychiatric drugs as inducing abnormal states, analogous to how we use recreational drugs to induce euphoria or social disinhibition." The most she can say for the SSRIs is that some of them are mildly sedating, "and this may help someone who is agitated or anxious." Lucire says they can also energize and brighten one's mood - but, she adds, so can cocaine. The SSRIs do more for men with premature ejaculation than for people with depression, says Dr. David Healy, of Cardiff University in Wales. Healy supports drug treatment for depression, but is a hero...
...feel sad sometimes. We don't want a society in which people run off to get prescribed rather than feel normal emotions." While Parker acknowledges that sometimes people who don't need SSRIs receive them, he doesn't think the drugs should be confined to those with severe depression. "Anxious worriers are the new breed of depression," he says. "They're the ones for whom it's nothing like as gray, and the suicide risk is not as great, but they're living lives of quiet desperation, or irritability, or crabbiness, (feelings) that drive their depression." He's concerned about...
...some societies make you more anxious than others. The U.S. has always been a me-first culture, as befits a nation that grew from a scattering of people on a fat saddle of continent where land was often given away. That have-it-all ethos persists today, even though the resource freebies are long since gone. Other countries--where the acreage is smaller and the pickings are slimmer--came of age differently, with the need to cooperate getting etched into the cultural DNA. The American model has produced wealth, but it has come at a price--with ambition sometimes turning...
...yearning for supremacy can create its own set of problems. Heart attacks, ulcers and other stress-related ills are more common among high achievers--and that includes nonhuman achievers. The blood of alpha wolves routinely shows elevated levels of cortisol, the same stress hormone that is found in anxious humans. Alpha chimps even suffer ulcers and occasional heart attacks...