Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After having a panic attack during a Calculus test and a second attack the next day, she approached her chemistry professor about her problem. Quinn says he responded “compassionately” and scheduled her an appointment at the Bureau of Study Counsel. He kept in touch with Quinn throughout the semester, inquiring about her appointment and providing academic and personal help...
...when Quinn told her Calculus teaching fellow about how the panic attack prevented her from completing the test, she got a far more discouraging response...
...TF—not the F on her transcript—that had a far more negative, enduring effect on both her academic experience and mental health. “I spent the rest of…the semester regretting that I had told him about that first panic attack,” Quinn writes. “I often told myself…that I should forget about that one terrible meeting; but in fact it colored the way I spoke and thought about mental illness more than any other experience: I felt ashamed and thus did not tell...
With Balestracci, playing defense is just as much about making the hit as getting his opponent to fear the hit, to sense it coming and to panic and lose control of the situation...
...charges of illegal trading pile up, what are investors supposed to do? Are all mutual funds tainted? Could yours go belly-up? Should you bail out? First of all, don't panic. Most of the roughly 650 firms that run mutual funds have not been accused of doing anything wrong. When the investigations are over, many will be proved entirely trustworthy. And as for funds run by companies that are found guilty, there are limits to how low they can go. By law, a mutual fund can never go bankrupt. It cannot become insolvent unless all the stocks and bonds...