Word: stress
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sexy Harvard guy looking to get out some stress this week...
...weekly course offered in Mather House lets students forget their midterm stress and think more about lathes—pictured on the left. For just $50, participants spend a semester turning a simple lump of wet wood into a bowl, a pen, or a vase. According to devotees, the activity is quite a stress reliever...
...that blocking went wrong when the College lowered the cap on blockmates from 16 to eight back in 2000, creating problems for large groups of friends now forced to break into smaller clusters or cut members one at a time. It’s too easy to attribute the stress of blocking season to a certain shallowness—when it comes down to it, picking blockmates is a popularity contest of sorts. Being the odd one out carries a certain stigma, and nowhere can this unfortunate mindset be seen more clearly than in the attitude displayed towards the dreaded...
...damage to her self-image from the burns has been harder to repair, however. "I don't have posttraumatic stress like the others. For me it's the body-image issue," she says, calmly analyzing herself. She can't bear to look at herself in the mirror. "You can look at a guy with a scar, and some people think it's sexy. It's never sexy on a woman," she says. "My whole arm, my palms just don't look normal." She wonders if guys will ever find her attractive again. "If a guy doesn't like me because...
Psychiatrists divide symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder into three categories. Batchelor, found to have the disorder, fits every bill, including: nightmares and flashbacks; estrangement and emotional numbness; irritability and difficulty sleeping. Every night he fights sleep, knowing it will bring a replay of the day his unit was sent to rescue a patrol that had been ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, and fell into a ferocious firefight. "It was like the entire city was shooting at us," Batchelor says, pacing around the room. "I saw the guy shooting at me. He was on a rooftop, and I saw the muzzle...