Word: chronical
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...relaxation boom spreads, as corporate America learns its mantras and chronic worriers unwind their minds, the point, then, is not to escape the effects of stress, which are inescapable in any case, but to channel and control them. Between the fight-or-flight spasms of too much tension and the dullness and dormancy of too little, the challenge for each person is to find the level of manageable stress that invigorates life instead of ravaging it. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin/Boston and Dick Thompson/ San Francisco
...aged 18 to 60, he found that their greatest source of stress was the changes in society's attitudes toward sex, including sexual permissiveness and "the new social roles of the sexes." While stress might have once taken the form of an occasional calamity, it is now "a chronic, relentless psychosocial situation," says Dr. Paul Rosch, director of the American Institute of Stress in Yonkers...
...know Breindel suggest that he has been ambivalent about these values and regularly swerved into the fast lane. At Harvard he roomed with Robert Kennedy's son David, who has had his much publicized drug problems. Other friends, groping for an explanation, speculate that Breindel's chronic physical pain-he had undergone several operations in recent years for wrist and kidney ailments-led him to seek an illicit painkiller. Yet it is hard to understand why he would not stick to prescription relief: both his father and sister are physicians. Still, the friends who say they were unaware...
...circuitry, however, can ward off the perils of the ocean. Experienced sailors ran aground several times. Second-Place Finisher Reed watched in helpless panic "when a whale tried mating with me," nearly smashing the boat. There is no panacea for thirst, chronic lack of sleep, perpetual cold and clammy discomfort. Why, then, knowing all this, do sailors set out alone, again and again? Not merely because it is there. Explains Philippe Jeantot: "Because it is difficult. I enjoy succeeding in difficult things...
Humes argued that today diseases of this type, including both the physiological symptoms associated with chronic neuromuscular tension (such as headache, backache, insomnia, constipation, asthma, and so on), and the cluster of cognitive and emotional distortions which come under the general heading of anxiety-neurosis, are so widespread that the medical profession should stipulate the existence of an epidemic. He urged the direction of research attention to the use of cannabis as a specific remedy...