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White Stripes Break Up: 3 of Their Most Memorable Performances [VIDEOS]

The White Stripes are no more. In a statement released via their website this afternoon, Jack White and Meg White said their band will no longer be recording or performing live. Although Jack White has been busy with his side project the Raconteurs, and although Meg White's anxiety forced a White Stripes hiatus in 2007,...

Scientists Study Woman With No Fears

(Dec. 19) -- Is there anything you're not afraid of? Imagine what it must be like to never experience fear of any kind. A woman with a rare genetic disorder, Urbach-Wiethe disease, isn't frightened by anything – haunted houses, spiders, snakes, movie monsters, death threats, being attacked or robbed, the Live...

Study: Playing Tetris Can Help Reduce Flashbacks

LONDON (Nov. 11) -- Picture the scene: You're lying in a hospital bed after being pulled out of a terrifying car crash. The doctors haven't found any physical injuries, but before you're allowed to leave, they hand you a Game Boy and insist you play Tetris for 10 minutes. That might sound a little unreasonable (you're...

Study: 'Magic Mushrooms' May Help Cancer Patients

(Sept. 6) -- For patients in the advanced stages of cancer, an unlikely remedy may provide relief from the burdensome stress and fear of an imminent death: Magic mushrooms. According to the findings of a new study published in Archives of General Psychiatry, psilocybin, the naturally occurring compound found on a variety...

First Katrina, Then BP: Life in the Gulf's Unluckiest Town

CHALMETTE, La. (Aug. 27) -- The sleek Bell helicopter, one of the perks BP is making available to cranky officials whose coastlines it oiled, lifts off from the lawn in front of the St. Bernard Parish government complex, tilts toward the Gulf of Mexico and flies straight into the thunderheads of Tropical Depression 5. The...

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06/02/12 Ladyhawke faces her fears head on Source: The Courier-Mail Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, decided to face her fears head on - and call her new album Anxiety.
05/31/12 Give No One Cause to Fear You Source: AOL Healthy Living The ancient ancestors that were casual and blithely hopeful, underestimating the risks around them -- predators, loss of food, aggression from others of their kind -- did not pass on their genes.
05/22/12 Seven Ways to Cut the Stress of Divorce Source: AOL Healthy Living Divorce is stressful -- there's no two ways around it.
05/21/12 Be The Cure For Spider Phobia? Source: AOL Healthy Living A new study shows that just one therapy session is enough to turn the phobia around.
05/17/12 Yoga Stress Relief for Soldiers Source: AOL Healthy Living Faced with the highest army suicide rates in at least 30 years , U.S. military officials are examining ways to help treat psychologically wounded soldiers.

Background on anxiety

Anxiety (also called angst or worry) is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components.

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