Word: mentalism
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...Worse yet, the mental health care system needed to help deal with all this is in ruins. Private psychologists and psychiatrists are almost impossible to find. Emergency rooms outside New Orleans - those that survived the storm - are now packed with people from the city seeking mental health care. It's not just the pre-Katrina schizophrenics and crazies who have gone without meds for the year, but regular people who are stressed and depressed. "Life is just not easy in the Big Easy now," says Buras. "There's a lot of anxiety and deep depression...
...traumatic stress - difficulty concentrating, angry outbursts," says Parent, "but frankly, if they didn't show those signs, I would worry." He says firefighters who went through 9/11 in New York helped his men realize it wasn't "unmanly" to get help. Now nearly a half say they would seek mental health counseling if provided...
...community is still very much in intensive care, but the mental health needs are crushing," says Donald Smithburg, head of the Louisiana State University Health Care Services division, which oversees the state's charity care system. The stress, he says, is felt beyond New Orleans. Emergency rooms as far away as Baton Rouge and Lafayette have mentally ill patients "boarding" for days in emergency rooms, waiting for hospital admission, because there are no available psych beds in the New Orleans area...
...work in a city that used to have 350 to 400. The result is that regular health care in emergency rooms is backed up for hours - or sometimes days. Smithburg worries that a facility with new hospital beds (sorely needed in New Orleans) may have to be converted for mental health patients instead...
...that you can see him thinking out there," says sportscaster and ex-pro Mary Carillo. "You can watch him sizing up the situation and making adjustments in his game and changing something around, and he never did that against Nadal." Federer backhands the chatter about his lack of mental fortitude. "Nadal is just more obvious about his fighting qualities," he says. "I fight like crazy, even though it doesn't look like I am. Maybe because I have such a relaxed style of play...