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Living with Anxiety YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! Community invites you to to send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected]. Select images will appear in both the print edition as well as Community Instagram page @communitygt. — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Safar 16, 1441 AH Doha today: 280 - 350 Living with anxiety Health anxiety tends to rise after the age of 50 but it doesn’t COVER STORY have to take over your life. P4-5 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 15, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.15am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.33am Zuhr (noon) 11.21am Asr (afternoon) 2.40pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.08pm Isha (night) 6.38pm USEFUL NUMBERS Aruvam of corruption, he decides to take his own life instead of giving DIRECTION: Sai Sekhar them a chance to murder him. After this shocking incident, CAST: Siddharth, Catherine Tresa, Sathyaraj there are some paranormal activities going on. 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For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Artistic Gymnastic Classes Short Executive Programme – ‘Re- WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb Inventing Your Business Model’ Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience MAPS International WLL, in collaboration WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: HEC Paris, Doha Campus Tanzania’ with Katara Cultural Village presents Qatar TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm WHEN: Today WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art International Art Festival 2019. QIAF2019 is The olympic sport using horizontal bar, HEC Paris In Qatar off ers an Executive Gallery at Education City the mega art event in the region that connects rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the Short Program in ‘Re-Inventing your WHEN: Ongoing until December 1 the artists worldwide and witness the fusion children from age 4 till 16. Business Model’ with HEC Paris Associate TIME: 4pm of over 200 artists from over 75 countries in Professor Hélène Musikas. ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project 6 days, including art exhibition, live painting This two-day programme is designed to supported by Student Aff airs Division of symposium, Qatar cultural tour, master art give executives an original and novel view Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows classes, art panel discussion, artisitc fashion of how to envisage strategy and suppress students and faculty to explore and immerse show and awards and certifi cates. crafting in a world that requires constant themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural adaptation. Building on the concept of cultures. 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Career Guidance Hobby Classes Basics of TV Presentation WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art WHERE: Qatar National Library Sadd Centre WHEN: Oct 18 WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHEN: Saturday – Friday TIME: 5pm to 8pm TIME: 6pm – 8pm Mamangam is an art and performance Through this workshop, young adults will Qatar International Art Festival 2019 Career guidance for course, country, centre started with a vision of spreading familiarise themselves with the basics of WHERE: Katara Cultural Village college and entrance for students of Grade our knowledge, interests and experience in television presentation. The workshop is led WHEN: 30 October - 5 November IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments various disciplines in arts across diff erent by Library specialist Ahmed al-Maliki. TIME: 10am - 12pm administered for stream preference, career countries for children and adults. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 15, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Have you become more concerned about health? By Stacey Burling are common in later life. Doctors and mental health experts said the 50s, 60s and up can be when symptoms fter she broke her neck in provoke more anxiety than they once a car accident at age 28, did. Renee Tucker’s doctors This is when many fi rst experience told her that her newly serious illnesses like diabetes and repaired spine would heart disease. Even if they don’t Anever be as strong as it was before. have a chronic illness, people are Well over 50% Another accident could paralyse her. more aware of their mortality. Chest of older patients She’s not allowed to run or ride on discomfort we could attribute in our roller coasters, but the Buckingham youth to sore muscles can seem much experience some Township mother of two has mostly more ominous. Stomach distress been able to lead a normal life. Now might be cancer. A headache could be level of health that she’s 51, though, she’s worrying a stroke. Every forgotten name might anxiety more about her health. She often mean Alzheimer’s disease. feels some dizziness and pain when It’s hard to avoid the message that she stands up, symptoms her doctors the risk of almost everything bad, have not been able to explain. Any including death, goes up with age. – Renee El-Gabalawy, ache in her neck makes her anxious. That’s why, age mostly determines She’s much more afraid of falling than screening for breast, prostate and ‘psychologist at the she used to be. colon cancer. It’s why doctors start University of Manitoba She’s seen that some people her paying closer attention to your heart. age, even those who’ve taken good Barbara Grabias experienced the care of themselves, have had major newly heightened anxiety recently health problems. when she felt chest pressure. She “I just have this kind of sense of worried that something was wrong impending doom, that it’s going to get with her heart. She went to the doctor worse and not be manageable,” she and learned she had acid refl ux, a said of her health. “As I get older, I condition easily remedied by over- feel weaker and weaker.” the-counter medicine. While plenty of people ignore their Older people “are more conscious health all their lives, Tucker’s worries of little pings and pangs in their Renee El-Gabalawy ’ about her increasing vulnerability body,” said Grabias, 77, who lives near Tuesday, October 15, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Washington Square. “It’s probably when I got to be 70 is when I started to think more of the preciousness of health.” What fi rst triggered it for Barry Jacobs, 61, was nearing the age at which his father died of cancer: 52. A psychologist who works as a consultant at the Health Management Associates Philadelphia offi ce, Jacobs was especially anxious until he made it to 53. He said age changes the way people feel about their bodies.
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