Word: panic
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Unfounded Panic...
...press conferences and on TV talk shows, he has attacked not just his presidential rivals, but most members of the current government. In a press conference last week, he claimed that Serbian Vice Premier Nebojsa Covic recently ordered his assassination, and that Kostunica's office was "in a panic" to cover up evidence of its ties to organized crime. "They will sell everything that is worth selling to the foreigners and then move to the Bahamas," he said. "My aim," he later explained to TIME, "is to destroy the mafia. I am showing that I am not afraid of criminals...
Heller disagrees, believing her disorder belongs in the canon alongside such conditions as panic attacks and agoraphobia. It does resemble those and other ills--perhaps too much. Her description of an SD sufferer who performs a range of ritualistic chores before bed sounds a lot like someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Another, who shrinks from people at parties because she's sensitive to heat and crowds, sounds like a social phobic. Heller argues that such confusion will clear up when psychologists become more familiar with...
...Nazis swept across Vienna, I felt like a pit opened before me, and I stood on its edge. I was so afraid—of the panic, the beatings, the concentration camps, but knew that I couldn’t give up hope for democracy and a better future,’ she said...
...were making our own mistakes—it was really our fault,” Ogbechie said. “But we didn’t panic, we stayed calm, and decided we need to the play to the speed we always play...