Britney Spears Suffers Panic Attacks

  • Posted on February 5, 2009 at 10:36 pm

It has been reported that Britney Spears is suffering from panic attacks as she prepares for her world tour ‘Circus’.

Apparently, the 27-old-year comeback queen has been throwing tantrums and locking herself in her room amid “terrible attacks of nerves”.

According to the Sun, the singer’s condition has become so bad that her father, Jamie, has had to call the doctor.

A source told the newspaper: “Britney is in danger of not going on tour. She’s been telling her doctor she’s under pressure. She fears her performance will be branded a flop.”

Spears will start her world tour next month and will be joined by sons Sean Preston, three, and Jayden James, two, reports the ‘Telegraph’.

Following her public meltdowns a year ago, Britney has remained under the strict control of her father, who has restricted her friends and regulated her medical treatment.

The tour starts in New Orleans on March 3 and ends with eight dates in London ending on June 14.

Source: Indian Express

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Nintendo Video Game Caused Panic Attack

  • Posted on January 16, 2009 at 6:13 am

A five-year-old boy has suffered panic attack by playing Nintendo video game.

Nicolo, nine years old, loves his Nintendo video games.

“I especially like adventure games where you discover secrets and you battle people,” he said.

Nicolo says he’s never experienced any pain or physical illness while playing video games, aside from occasional sweaty fingers.

“They get a little sweaty, but not usually every time,” he said.

But that’s not the case for five-year-old Michael, a Carlsbad boy who ended up having a panic attack after playing Nintendo for just a half-hour.

“He then began to complain and cry, saying he was experiencing pain in his hand and that he wasn’t feeling well,” mother Isabelle Clingerman said.

“He began to scream and what he was experiencing was a type of motion sickness due to the game,” she said.

Neurologist James Grisolia says the frequency of the flashing lights is to blame. It’s a known fact in some children video games can cause migraine headaches, motion sickness and even epileptic seizures.

“There was an episode of ‘Pokemon’ in Japan some years ago that had a certain kink of stimulation in the TV show that sent 700 children to the emergency room with different symptoms,” Dr. Grisolia said.

The problem is so well documented, San Diego’s Epilepsy Foundation offers these tips for children playing video games:

- Take frequent breaks of 10 or 15 minutes,

- Don’t play when tired,

- Reduce the brightness of the screen, and

- Always play in a well-lit room.

While physical pain is relatively rare in kids who play video games, Dr. Grisolia has other concerns.

“The most important health effects from video games are obesity from not getting outside and playing, failing to socialize with other kids and getting exposed to a high level of violence in some of the more violent games,” he said.

Nintendo declined to comment for this report.

Source: CBS 8

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A Model’s Panic Attacks

  • Posted on January 9, 2009 at 4:34 am

Jodie Kidd, former supermodel, has revealed to Red Magazine that she has suffered panic attacks.

She exclusively revealed to Red: “I got to about 21 and I wanted to stop for my own sanity. I wanted to stop for my own sanity.  “It’s easy to get swept up in the whole first-class Ritz lifestyle. And that’s not me. I hadn’t seen my best friend. I hadn’t gone to the pub. I hadn’t gone to the movies.

“Then I started getting panic attacks and I wasn’t quite sure why I was anxious, because I was working and earning. But I just wasn’t happy. I wasn’t grounded.”  She explained: “When the press first said I was too skinny, I was in New York, Paris and Japan.  “I was going flat out and I actually didn’t see a lot of what was going on back home.”

Jodie realised how controversial her appearance was when she watched a chat show discussing whether she was a bad influence on teenage girls, but still did not speak out about the issue at the time.

She told Red: “There was nothing I could do. I believe that if you can’t change it, there’s no point in fretting about it, because you’re just wasting energy.”

 

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