Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Day 78: National Panic Day


"GET ready to celebrate. Today marks the holiday.... National Panic Day!
Panic Day, the day when you're encouraged to run around and tell everybody you can't take it anymore. We love this holiday, because it gives us permission to freak out and express the panic that lurks under the facade of calm self-control that we present to the world."

“What?! Today is National Panic Day? We didn't know! We're not prepared! What are we gonna do? Batten down the hatches! Get some hot water and a towel! Someone order a pizza! Follow that taxi and step on it!”

Panic Day, today, is a light-hearted holiday about the panic and stress we all experience from time to time in our everyday lives. This holiday is not about panic disorder or agoraphobia, which are serious illnesses and affect millions of people worldwide.
Panic attacks are common to us all. What is different is the degree of these attacks, because it is different from person to person. However, attacks panic becomes "acute" when our normal day to day is strongly affected by this condition.  While it is natural that each of us to experience an immense sense of panic and anxiety when we are faced with threatening situations, panic attacks acute exacerbated by the fact there was no obvious reason may be identified as the cause of its appearance!

Try to stay calm. Take a deep breath. Can you handle today? Good, we were worried for a moment. Hopefully, everything is going just swell in your life, and you have no need for this day. But, if problems and troubles are looming, try to hold off hitting the panic button until this day shows itself. Don't worry. Don't fret. Above all, don't panic. However, if ever there was a day to panic, today is that day.

Children experience panic and anxiety differently than adults. Abuse is a serious incubator for encountering levels of anxiety and panic. These emotions inhibit positive emotional growth. Preventing child abuse is a national priority. To prevent child abuse and neglect value children, strengthen families and educate communities.

The Child Crisis Center is committed to preventing child abuse and neglect. They accomplish this by supporting and strengthening families through education and intervention, by providing a safe environment for children to heal, and by recruiting, training and supporting foster and adoptive families.

No parent ever intends to harm his or her children. Every parent wants to see his or her children grow up healthy and strong. Sometimes extreme life stressors such as job loss, financial difficulties or poverty can bring a parent to a place where they feel helpless and their decision making skills can suffer. They panic. Most often it is at this place where families meet crises and children can be harmed.

The challenge exists to ensure that every child has a chance to grow up healthy and strong; that begins with a safe place to live. The Child Crisis Center offers services that protect & help children heal when families are struggling, find compassionate, supportive homes for children that need them, and strengthen families and minimize stress on their lives.

Donation: $5

To support Child Crisis Center , please visit:  http://www.childcrisis.org/

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