Are you suffering from war-induced anxiety?

[Frankie Spano]

March 28 — America’s access to war news, 24 hours a day, seven days a week in real time is unprecedented. Never before have we seen a war like this evolve before our eyes. But many mental health experts believe that following war coverage ‘round the clock may be hazardous to your health — causing fear, stress and anxiety, among other health concerns. Mark Reinecke is chief of the Division of Psychology at Northwestern University Medical School, and he offers some advice for battling war-induced stress on “Today.” Read his tips below.

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[joeyjoey]

Great article, Francis. I hope you are taking it's advice :)

[Frankie Spano]

Originally posted by joeyjoey
Great article, Francis. I hope you are taking it's advice :)

Actually, I posted it for your benefit Joseph!

[joeyjoey]

Oh you know this stuff doesn't bother me lol. When you were all flipping after the WTC, I was eating ice cream, thinking about booty.

[Frankie Spano]

Your always thinking about Booty, Big Booty that is! MMMMMMMM...

[MsRay]

This is why I generally ignore TV news besides the fact that I find TV news extremely biased and overly sensational. But I think a lot of people will burnout on the TV and start reading their news or listening to the radio as said in the article.

I don't understand how anyone can turn on Fox News (ever), CNN, or any continuous news coverage that shows the same pictures over and over again for stretches at a time while listening to pundits spew whatever opinions they're feeling for the day.

To me the TV news stations aren't reporting, they are producing a spectacle and I think that disrespects the people over there both the American and British militaries and the Iraqi civilians. Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind in how mass media was depicted and the effect on the populace.

[Frankie Spano]

Originally posted by MsRay
This is why I generally ignore TV news besides the fact that I find TV news extremely biased and overly sensational. But I think a lot of people will burnout on the TV and start reading their news or listening to the radio as said in the article.

I don't understand how anyone can turn on Fox News (ever), CNN, or any continuous news coverage that shows the same pictures over and over again for stretches at a time while listening to pundits spew whatever opinions they're feeling for the day.

To me the TV news stations aren't reporting, they are producing a spectacle and I think that disrespects the people over there both the American and British militaries and the Iraqi civilians. Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind in how mass media was depicted and the effect on the populace.

Couldn't agree with you more. The sensationalism TV media provides its viewers is way out of hand. I gather my news from the Times usually on line. I just can not bear to watch the repititous; monotinous news coverage provided on the majority of stations.

[joeyjoey]

If an negative event seems inevitable, is there really a reason to sit home, dwelling on it by watching the news all day? My parents sit there all day watching the news about it as if them worrying is going to affect the outcome of the situation.

[Bobby2k]

If this war can cause so much stress with the total deathtoll not surpasing the thousands all together i cant imagine how people in world war 2 where the worldwide deathtoll exceeded 50 million dealt with it?

[Penelicious]

I work for a news monitoring service and I am surrounded by the news for the greater part of my week. We each have a television in our cubes and we must watch either FNC, CNN, CNBC or CNNFN at all times. I was a nervous wreck from the very beginning of February until two weeks ago. I suffer from slight anxiety on a normal basis and can only tell you that my anxiety increased triple fold because all I did was watch the news. :(