Panic Disorder

...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b called agoraphobia, has been afraid to leave her house.

She managed to find work for a time, at a company partly owned by a man who also had a ba href=/panic disorder/a/b.

He gave her a private office in a house, to make her feel at home and to shield her from the office bustle that could bring on attacks.

But three and a half years into the job, even those accommodations were no longer enough.

Her husband left her; her 19-year-old daughter, who drove her to work, married and moved out.

''All of a sudden the panic attacks got out of control,'' Post said.

''I don't drive, so I didn't know what I would do.'' After a year with no job, she came across Willow, an outsourcing company that was starting a program to train at-home workers to take calls for companies such as Teleflora and Palm.

Today, she works from home in Deltona, Fla., sets her own working hours and supports herself.

And the panic attacks have subsided.

''It's been a godsend,'' she said.

Such arrangements are bringing jobs to thousands of people with disabilities, including those with spinal cord injuries and vision loss.

Fast computers and broadband connections have become so inexpensive and reliable that location is now not an issue for certain jobs, such as customer service.

At the same time, an abundance of technology is available to help disabled people operate computers, such as software that lets a blind person use a keyboard instead of a mouse to navigate a program, and voice synthesize...

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12, 2006 Mystery illness hits Russian schools SICKNESS AND SUSPICION By Kim Murphy LOS ANGELES TIMES 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 s...

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