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...says Judith Orloff, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and author, is for actors to learn techniques they can use to immerse themselves in their characters and then withdraw. "I have a client who is playing a character in a TV series who has cancer," she says. "When she came into my office, she looked like she had cancer herself." Orloff developed breathing exercises and meditation routines to help the actress move fluidly in and out of character. "Creative people need to work at remaining sensitive, while shutting out negativity," says Orloff...
...EDWARD HALLOWELL, A PSYCHIATRIST in Sudbury, Mass., has seen the fallout of multitasking mania: it walks through his door five days a week. Over the past decade, he says, he has seen a tenfold rise in the number of patients showing up with symptoms that closely resemble those of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), but of a work-induced variety. "They complained that they were more irritable than they wanted to be," he says. "Their productivity was declining. They couldn't get organized. They were making decisions in black-and-white, shoot-from-the-hip ways rather than giving things adequate...
...when a plane lands nowadays, BlackBerrys light up the way cigarettes once did. "A patient asked me," he says, "whether I thought it was abnormal that her husband brings the BlackBerry to bed and lays it next to them while they make love." Hallowell and his frequent collaborator, Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey, believe that the neurochemistry of addiction may underlie our compulsive use of cell phones, computers and "CrackBerrys." They say that dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in seeking rewards and stimulation, is doubtless at work. "If we could measure it as we're shifting [attention] from one thing to another...
...Psychiatrist Hallowell offers some basic solutions to multitasking mania in a book to be published in April, titled CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap--Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD. Among his suggestions: prioritize ruthlessly ("Cultivate the lilies, or the things that fulfill you," he says, "and cut the leeches, those that deplete you"), allot 30 minutes a day for thinking, relaxing or meditating, and get significant doses of what he calls vitamin C--the live connection to other people. "As much as we are connected electronically, we have disconnected interpersonally," he says. Compulsive screen sucking...
...will give them mastery over their oversubscribed lives. Could I get my work done more efficiently? Could I make decisions more quickly? Could I just maybe tidy my desk? I wanted to see what it would be like to have focus, clarity, direction. So I found a friendly psychiatrist, whom I'm going to call Mark although that's only half his name. After giving me a long lecture on the risks of taking it, most of which I was too busy answering e-mail to hear, he sent me a prescription...