How to Handle Anxiety in the Age of Orange Alert
Miriam Greenspan • 3/29/2003
While intense anxiety is often diagnosed as a disorder, fear is a normal human response when life is threatened, compelling us to pay attention in the interests of survival. Anxiety, worry, insomnia, nightmares, hypervigilance, and difficulties with concentration have become widespread in the current climate of color-coded terrorist alerts and bio/chemical/nuclear weaponry. These steps offer tools for paying attention to fear, building up one's fear tolerance, and letting fear be, which is the only true way to let it go.
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