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News Int'l Business Interviews Articles Cricket News Features Columns News by City by State People Acting Artists Movies What You Should Know About Anxiety DisordersFebruary 22, 2006by Robert Thatcher Anxiety is a natural human reaction.

And contrary to popular opinion, anxiety can be beneficial because it alerts poeple to potential dangers and gives off an adrenaline rush that can help them accomplish a task in record time.

But like many things, anxiety when taken into the extreme can have disastrous results.

These feelings can lead to panic attacks and chronic worrying that can slowly affect the way a person deals with other people and with normal life situations.

Anxiety disorder, as psychologists would want to call this condition, can range from something as simple as feelings of uneasiness to responses as severe as feelings of terror and claustrophobia.

Fortunately, among the psychological disorders, anxiety problems are one of the most common and the most treatable.

Combinations of medications and behavior therapy are often given.

Symptoms of anxiety problems include fast heartbeat and palpitations, chest pains and difficulty in breathing, anxious thoughts that persist even without any concrete reason, dizziness and nausea, sweating, trembling, difficulty in concentrating, fearful thoughts and feeling...

... blackenterprise.com Home email By Steven Komarow Iraq is struggling to establish a mental health system to treat survivors of bombings and other attacks.

But adequate services are years away, in part because mental health professionals are fleeing the violence themselves.

Sabah Sadik, the country's first national adviser for mental health services, said only two mental health hospitals are operating in the country, both in Baghdad.

Nearly 100 Iraqi psychiatrists are practicing in the nation of 26 million people, a tiny fraction of what would be expected in a Western nation.

"This is probably a drop in the ocean for what Iraq needs," he said.

Prospects are poor for swiftly increasing the number of mental health professionals in Iraq.

A key reason is Iraq's insurgents have frequently targeted Iraq's medical professionals.

"A lot of colleagues would like to leave the country" before it happens to them, Sadik said.

The Health Ministry is trying to recruit medical professionals who fled during Sa...

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