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Using Anxiety to Avoid Depression: Part Two

When we left off, it was with Donovan Campbell, in Joker One, trying to establish measures to deal with the stress faced by 150 Marines trying to gain control over an Iraqi city of 350,000. As a refresher, he was trying to act as a calm leader. As he phrases it: “Frantic-sounding lieutenants lose everyone’s …

July 29, 2009 – 9:18 am | By Mike | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Why People Might Use Anxiety to Avoid Depression

[A quick administrative note. I recently entered into an agreement with MentalHelp.net to provide blog posts for them. Some of the entries made here will also appear in their blog. This is the first such post.] Back in March of this year, I was listening to NPR while driving around town doing errands. Terry Gross …

July 23, 2009 – 4:53 am | By Mike | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)