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Fortunately, there are plenty of things you can do about it, including taking medication--but that's a last resort. The first step in dealing with anxiety, says Richard Friedman, psychiatrist and director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, is realizing that "it's normal to feel anxious in reaction to the catastrophe. Don't avoid it; talk to your friends and family...
...sounds counterintuitive at the moment, but that doesn't make it any less true: As it stands today, anthrax is not a major public health threat, says Dr. Jon Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Smith College...
...quiet, the city's crisis hotlines are blistered with calls and there are no beds available in the psychiatric wards. A man arrives at the armory where families of the missing gather and offers to help resurrect the dead. "Suddenly every night is a full moon," a Bellevue psychiatrist says. The downtown folks are frustrated that they still don't have phones and that people uptown are getting pedicures done as though nothing has changed. "She's trying to isolate herself," says a downtown refugee of her uptown sister-in-law. "She doesn't want to accept reality...
What lies behind the tempers, compulsions, tears and laughter of young children? Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist, have come up with the term touchpoints in a new book to describe the bursts of inexplicable behavior that seem to grip young children just before they make a developmental leap. A child just about to walk, for instance, might be restless at night, or cranky for days, until the afternoon she masters her first shaky trip across the carpet. Or a three-year-old struggling to acquire his language skills might have daily meltdowns until...
...board includes Professor of Economics David M. Cutler, Professor of Health Care Policy David Blumenthal, Professor of Pathology S. James Adelstein, Professor of International Health Jennifer Leaning and Yale University Health Services Psychiatrist-in-Chief Lorraine D. Siggins...