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Psychologists now have a name for Larsen's condition: eco-anxiety, the overwhelming and sometimes debilitating concern for the worsening state of the environment. As signs of global warming accumulate, therapists say they're seeing more and more patients with eco-anxious symptoms. Sufferers feel depression, hopelessness and insomnia, and go through sudden, uncontrollable bouts of sobbing. They're overwrought about where the polar bears will live if they lose their habitat. They fret about the Earth running out of fossil fuels and about the slow disappearance of the oceans' coral reefs. Sometimes, the worry is closer to home, about...
...that symptoms be "excessive" in proportion to cause. In fact, the revised manual said nothing about causes and listed symptoms instead. To be diagnosed with major depressive disorder today, you need have only five symptoms for two weeks, which can include such common problems as depressed mood, weight gain, insomnia, fatigue and indecisiveness. The DSM does make an exception for bereavement: if you recently lost a loved one, such symptoms are not considered disordered. But the manual doesn't make exceptions for other things that make us sad--divorce, financial stress, a life-threatening illness...
...knows how widespread RLS really is. Experts estimate that anywhere from three to nine million Americans suffer from the neurological condition that triggers an intense, often irresistible urge to move the legs. The tingling, burning sensation associated with RLS can last for hours and worsens at night, causing severe insomnia, according to Dr. David Rye, director of Emory's Healthcare Program in Sleep Medicine, and one of the study's lead authors. For most people it develops during middle age and gets progressively worse over time. Nearly 60% of RLS sufferers have a family history of the condition. Jones...
...deep-vein thrombosis and security scares, to be worried about mere jet lag even seems a little frivolous. But this isn't being fair on our systems: your mind may be jumping from the third coffee you've gulped since landing, but fatigue, dehydration and insomnia are the body's reminders of how testing being strapped into a metal tube, and hurled across the other side of planet at hundreds of kilometers an hour, can often be. So while it's wise to do those in-flight stretches and stay hydrated during your journey, it's even better to arrange...
...liters Amount of Coca-Cola consumed over five years by Russian Natalya Kashuba, 27, who sued the firm for causing her heartburn and insomnia $118 Amount awarded to Kashuba by a Russian court last week. She is seeking an additional $113,000 in "moral damages...