Word: stress
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...learned hairdressing at a new salon, while some sell handicrafts and garments to tourists. "We have seen much progress, but the healing process is going to take years," says Dr. Denny Thong, a psychiatrist who has treated dozens of victims and their relatives. "Many are still suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder...
...Drugs like Ambien get you to sleep," says Jacobs, "but they don't get at stress and anxiety, which are often the underlying cause of insomnia." Once you're off the drug, insomnia usually returns with a vengeance. In his placebo control study, a relatively brief course of CBT, lasting about 2 1/2 hours over six weeks, showed no such problem...
...that the sharks were often in bad shape before they even arrived at the aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first...
...could boost Kerry's chances. Yet the Hispanic vote is hardly monolithic. Many of Arizona's Latino families--one-quarter of the state's population--have lived there for generations and are unhappy with undocumented workers who drive down wages. Democratic canvassers in Latino neighborhoods have been told to stress jobs, education and health care--and not to discuss the initiative unless asked. --By Margot Roosevelt
...well-heeled parents, it's easy to justify the indulgence. Sheila Allen was worried that her daughter Rebecca would face too much stress at Princeton University, where the 18year-old will be balancing academics with a spot on the ice-hockey team. So Sheila pushed for a new Pier 1 sofa and prodded her daughter into other purchases ranging from a flat-screen TV to a mini-fridge-freezer to a papasan chair. "She needs to be able to relax," says Sheila. To that end, Rebecca will also have new video-game accessories plus her roommate's karaoke machine...