Author Andrea Perry, an integrative psychotherapist, developed full-blown claustrophobia after a distressing incident on a train going through the Channel Tunnel. "Despite knowing intellectually and professionally that avoidance wouldn't help", she says, "the overwhelming sense of dread I experienced subsequently made using lifts, tunnels, the underground, even revolving doors practically impossible. The anxiety was highly debilitating".
Holiday memories from childhood are often some of the strongest to remain with us into adult life. But many children and families from disadvantaged backgrounds have little chance of forming those memories when the money is not available to allow them to take a break.Now, research into the benefits of going on holiday and 'getting away from it all' has been carried out for by academics at The University of Nottingham.
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, examines a Government Accountability Office report on Medicare Advantage costs, a scheduled House vote on mental health parity legislation, Senate approval of the
House Democrats plan to send to the floor a mental health parity bill (HR 1424) financed by limits on the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals, CQ Today reports. The legislation, sponsored by Reps. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.), would require most health insurers to provide equal levels of coverage for physical and mental illnesses.