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...Chronic stress can increase the risk of heart disease and lead to unhealthy habits like smoking, abusing alcohol and eating junk food. Exercise, yoga and meditation can reduce stress; so can getting enough sleep every night. If you are depressed, get support or treatment as necessary. --By David Bjerklie
...short run its about finding someone to talk to...and getting through the moment safely. If the urges are more immediately drastic, you might need to find a safe place to be,” she said. “In the longer one, if someone has a chronic episode of suicidal urges, in the context of good therapy [one can] talk about where the urge comes from...
...truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." It never fails to puzzle society when someone claims to have solved it. On March 31, Britons Robert and Jennifer Stokes flew to Zurich to kill themselves with the help of professionals. The Stokes were in chronic discomfort - Jennifer, 53, suffered from diabetes and Robert, 59, was epileptic - and both reportedly were prone to depression. But neither was terminally ill, according to relatives. In Zurich, the Stokes were greeted by staff members from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal - for patients suffering "intolerable...
...Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov ordered a fire-safety survey of all Russian schools following the deaths of 54 children in two separate school blazes. Twenty-two children died in northern Siberia and 32 died at a boarding school for the deaf in the southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search for 29 Western tourists missing in the Sahara desert. Germany sent an élite antiterrorist unit to help in the hunt...
...might be tempted to shrug off a 1-in-100 chance and think to yourself, As long as I quit by 42, I'm O.K. Think again. More smokers die of heart disease than lung cancer--not to mention that smokers have greater susceptibility to emphysema and other chronic illnesses...