Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McKay said he will stress the differencesbetween himself and his opponent, Cele Burnett,on education and abortion rights issues...
Among the symptoms of L.A.'s post-traumatic stress disorder are uncontrollable flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance and anger about the lack of control over one's life, according to Mory Framer, clinical director of the ! Barrington Psychiatric Center, which treated more than 1,000 victims. The Northridge quake left two special psychological scars because it came in the early hours when people were at home and in bed, thus transforming those two refuges into places of lethal danger. "Here we are, supposed to go back to our homes and back to our beds, but now it is frightening there," says Framer...
...especially offended by a quake's threat to home and hearth. More manifestly, women are more demonstrative and vocal about their anxieties. Men, who may be just as nervous, are culturally conditioned to hide it. "Fearfulness knows no gender," says Gellert. Experts disagree about the probable duration of the stress. Gellert points to a classic formulation in mass psychology known as the "six-week model of crisis resolution," and he predicts that, depending on how long the aftershocks continue -- there were five more of up to 3.4 magnitude last week -- many people are due to return to normal this month...
...midterm scene got your down? Need a fast, inexpensive way to relieve some stress? Lose the Prozac, drop the T'ai Chi classes and pick up the pastime that's got the whole university buzzing with coffeetalk .Try knitting...
...Christopher Dean infuriated many of their fans, who felt their smooth Fred-and-Ginger routine should have cut more ice with the judges. Italian slalom star Alberto ("La Bomba") Tomba disqualified himself by skiing off the course in his second giant-slalom run. He later complained of a stress headache...