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Terrorism fear is increasing heart disease & other ailments

businessshrink.biz — It almost seems like every day there is new information about terrorism, a new law or something suspicious to keep an eye on. The effects are being published by the Archives of General Psychiatry & University of Illinois researchers. Increased cardiovascular disease, stress, anxiety, hostility, depression and drinking in over 15,127,271 Americans.

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  • j4md0nut, on 02/16/2008, -0/+4Lots of people I know are not feeling very well.
  • JoyntHeir, on 02/16/2008, -5/+6 I totally agree with the article. I grew up during the 'Cold War'. We had bomb drills all the time in school. The news was full of talk about the red phone between the white house and Russia. The potential of being hit by an atom or nuclear bomb was real. My biggest comfort was we had a huge military storage of armaments in our town. If the missiles hit that island, we would not have to worry about radiation, etc, because we would blasted instantly. Our town would be a big crater. Then came the Cuban crisis. Talk about being on the tipping edge of world war III!
    The problem is, terrorism is real, it is a real possibility to hit where I live now (OKC) and in fact did when the Murray building was bombed. But after a life of living with the underlying fear, you get numbed to it. My hope is we will never forget the tragedy of the Murrah Building in OKC and later the Twin Towers in New York and the pentagon in DC - nor do we want to forget the several other targets that were planned for that day.
    Without the relationship I have with our Lord, I would be living in terror. But we cannot let terror run our lives. What quality of life would we have cowering in the corner or standing and shaking our fists at shadows? We need laughter, love, and hope. And an awareness of the bad things that do and can happen. We need to do whatever we have to do to end the 'badness' without letting it consume our lives.
  • jeimus, on 02/16/2008, -0/+3That's pathetic
  • MaynardJK, on 02/16/2008, -3/+2bury
  • pearlfender2, on 02/16/2008, -0/+5The cure: buy a few guns and watch Red Dawn over and over
  • oboy, on 02/16/2008, -0/+10It's all about the stress. Terrorism makes us more alert, more paranoid, increases our "bad chemical" levels.
    • counterspin, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1I believe Marilyn Manson said it best when he labeled this phenomena as the "Culture of Fear".
  • loganhid, on 02/17/2008, -2/+5I can't believe people are actually falling for this *****
  • provost, on 02/17/2008, -1/+4i hate to say this, but I have to. Maybe they will all die off so we can get back to a normal life. The people that are left are the sane ones that know it exists, know that it is such a small percent of overall deaths, and will be cool about ***** when it happens rather than being suckered into buying skyscraper parachutes and watching fox news talking about pen guns and remote controlled airplanes strapped with dynamite.
  • Sil369, on 02/17/2008, -0/+3Watch them classify it as a new disease - Terrornomia.... Terrornitis...
    • smacksaw, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1And we'll have a drug for it too. If they can have a drug for something as laughable as "restless leg syndrome" they can have one for terrorism panic.
  • bobbybobington, on 02/17/2008, -0/+6I pretty much ignore any "news" about terrorism, the boy has cried wolf one too many times. If I get killed by terrorists, so be it. People need to stop being a bunch of pussies, and just live your lives. Terrorism is about exactly what the name implies; Terror. This is the kind of ***** Osama wants. Stick it to that bastard and don't let them make you live in fear.
  • ryan83189, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4They hate us for our freedom fries.
  • siteinsights, on 02/17/2008, -0/+6Interesting article which suggests the shadow of terrorism may reach further than you would think. The long term effects of the stress it causes may be cause for concern.
  • mishadmiller, on 02/17/2008, -0/+5It really doesn't stress me out to hear the news about terrorism, however the news about all the presidential crap is driving me insane. I would like to think that our country has their ***** together by now to keep us safe from terrorism but then again we are in a recession now. (Even if they say that we aren't!)
  • DaDrake, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2 I can't image stress getting any worst with modern times. I simply don't see how some government commericial, that nearly everyone ignores, could be worst than some saber tooth tiger going after your family, running away from slave traders, trying to escape Nazi Germany, being raped by the tutu in Rwanda, or being bombed the ***** out in WW2.
  • smacksaw, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2If not terrorism it would be something else. People are susceptible to this sort of thing regardless of what it is.

    I hate the fear-mongering. But someone will put fear in people. Fear of God, fear of terrorism, whatever - you name it. The problem is when we put these people in gov't. Fear-driven pussies should be kept the hell away from anything where they can influence laws.
  • DermDoc, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1I'm getting a rash just thinking about it. Or maybe it was that scabies pt this morning.
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