Panic Disorder

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Fun and GamesPersonal FinanceLifestylesCommunity LinksHome : News : News : Top StoriesTop Stories Former manager named in lawsuit By: CARL ROTENBERG, Times Herald Staff03/21/2006Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly PHILADELPHIA - A female Worcester township employee, who resigned after more than eight years of service, has filed a federal sexual harassment lawsuit against former Township Manager Charles A.

Sardo and Worcester Township.

Toni L.

Lynne, who worked for the township from July 1996 to February 2005 as administrative assistant to Sardo, filed the suit Thursday in the U.S.

District Court's Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The suit seeks back pay, salary payments, front pay, promotions, seniority and reinstatement to her job.

The suit also seeks...

...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b from their father.In the world of behavioral therapists, however, panic attacks begin and end not with brain chemicals but with thoughts and actions.

Therapists say particular types of people are most prone to panic attacks.

Perfectionists and overachievers are more likely to have anxiety overflow.No matter what causes panic attacks, doctors and therapists agree that the real trouble starts after the first panic attack.Singer Carly Simon once confessed not only to panic attacks but also to a secondary and just as crippling fear, the fear of more panic attacks.A fear of an attack returning can cause the development of other phobias, such as performance anxiety, claustrophobia or the fear of the outdoors."I've talked to people who won't go to the dentist or go get their hair cut because they don't want to have a panic attack in a place where they cannot easily flee," says Margaret Summy, a Fort Worth therapist.Often, those people assume their fear is of the dentist or of the hairstylist."That's not it," Summy says.

"After the first attack, they start analyzing it and say, 'I'm not going to do that again.'"One West Texas woman whom Vinson treated had refused to leave her house without her husband for 11 years, so fearful was she that another panic attack would occur.

She told Vinson that one day she left the house by herself and tried to spark another panic attack."You can't have one when you want to," he told her.

"You have to fear it or it won't appear."The woma...

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- now part of stylesheet - Printable Version Email This Article Back to Health Shelkovskaya , Russia - It started just after the midafternoon recess.

As they lined up to return to class, Zareta Chimiyeva saw a girl in front of her collapse and begin convulsing wildly.

Only a few minutes later, Zareta was at her desk when she said she smelled a bad smell, and started feeling ill.

She rushed out of the classroom but made it only as far as the stairs.

"Darkness surrounded me, and there was darkness in my eyes, and I fell," said the 12-year-old from this small town in eastern Chechnya.

When Zareta woke up in a hospital, it took three adults to hold her down.

She was thrashing and clutching her throat, unable to get a breath, screaming in terror.

She wasn't alone.

Thirteen other girls were in nearby hospital rooms, also claiming they were unable to breathe, many of them shrieking and crying.

The next day, 23 students and seven teachers in a neighboring village fell ill with similar symptoms.

About the same time, four dozen children in two towns a little farther away also began clutching their throats, screaming and convulsing.

They have yet to heal.

Although the outbreak began Dec.

16, doc...