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IN CONSULTATION; Befriending Our Fears

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. Anger, irritability, problems with attention, and addiction in children and adolescents, also on the rise, are often signs of benumbed fear. Pervasive dark emotions like fear, grief, and despair are simply part of the "new normal."

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