Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...mobilized, and they have no way to discharge their feelings. This results in anxiety, long-term repressive feelings and psycho-physiological conditions such as high blood pressure. The hostages will be irritable, jumpy, and display a short fuse." They may also display everything from memory lapses to lost appetite, insomnia and nightmares. While the severity will vary, the psychological scars are sure to be deep in every case. Says David G. Hubbard, a Dallas psychiatrist: "Some individuals are strengthened in a situation like this, and some are crippled...
...connected to reality like funny bone to shoulder bone, insidiously subverting the official versions of history. Gore Vidal's Burr, for instance, and-more inventively-Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution plausibly :combine wit, suspense, speculation and scholarship. Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact...