Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Rajab 22, 1441 AH Doha today 220 - 270 IN A NUTSHELL: There is a broad community of immunosuppressed residents who long ago adopted the lifestyle changes public off icials now tout as a means of avoiding contagion: Wash your hands, and wash them often. Don’t touch your face. Avoid that handshake. Keep your distance from people who cough and sneeze. COVER From the edge STORY How to avoid coronavirus? Lessons from people whose lives depend on it. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Big Boss 13 has made me a James Bond actress Kurylenko stronger person: Rashami. tests positive for Covid-19. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, March 17, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT LATEST FILM RELEASES FROM HOLLYWOOD, BOLLYWOOD PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.24am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.42am Zuhr (noon) 11.44am Asr (afternoon) 3.09pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.45pm Isha (night) 7.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Call Of The Wild uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the CAST: Karen Gillan, Harrison Ford, Cara Gee exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. As the newest DIRECTION: Chris Sanders rookie on a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck experiences the Emergency 999 SYNOPSIS: Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately fi nds his true place in Worldwide Emergency Number 112 domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly the world. 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However, certain misadventures lead him and his DIRECTION: Homi Adajania family on a new quest, one which renews their relationships SYNOPSIS: Champak, an unassuming mithai shop owner and bonds. te Unqu uo ot Q “Let us e always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] Escape From Pretoria thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. Telephone: 44466405 CAST: Daniel Radcliff e, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber Two white South Africans, imprisoned for working on behalf Fax: 44350474 DIRECTION: Francis Annan of the African National Congress (ANC) determine to escape SYNOPSIS: Based on the real-life prison break of two from the notorious white man’s `Robben Island’, Pretoria political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time Prison. Tuesday, March 17, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY If coronavirus scares you, read this to take control over your health anxiety A pandemic is fertile ground for those who suff er from anxiety - here’s a short guide on how to manage it, writes Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett hen news of the the courtroom treatment, by coronavirus broke at confronting it with a rational the end of last year, counter-statement. For example, and as the stories if your persistent thought is from the outbreak something like “Everyone I love Wbecame more alarming over time, I will die from this virus” you can found myself wondering how health counter it with factual statements anxiety suff erers were coping. such as “Actually, most people who You see, I used to be one. In late get Covid-19 are likely to make a 2015, I suff ered a post-traumatic full recovery, and that’s assuming stress disorder relapse which led mum, dad and my little sister will to debilitating anxiety, much of even catch it at all.” As my mother which was health related. During always says: “just because you think that period, I was paralysed by the something, doesn’t make it true.” thought of becoming ill and dying. I was constantly checking for 5) Do some exercise symptoms and signs of disease online Even if it’s just star jumps in your and I was fi xated on the health of my bedroom, or shaking your body parts loved ones. like you’re in the warm-up section After treatment, including of a hippie acting class, exercise trauma-focused CBT, I almost will help get the adrenaline out of completely recovered. But I your system and channel the panic remember vividly how it felt to be elsewhere. in an all-consuming state of panic. For many months, it ruled my entire 6) Breathing and grounding existence. Approximately 40 million exercises American adults – roughly 18% of From guided yogic breathing to the population – have an anxiety using a strong smell (I favoured disorder, while in the UK there were lavender oil), grounding exercises 8.2 million cases of anxiety in 2013. can help bring you back to reality. I There are few statistics about health SOCIAL DISTANCE: As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, off icials worldwide have advised social distancing from also found bending over to touch my anxiety, but it can aff ect those who crowds to avoid contracting Covid-19. toes and then very slowly standing have an existing anxiety disorder or up starting at the base of my spine to those who have experienced a life be benefi cial, as it centres me. You event such as bereavement, birth can look for examples online, but trauma or an accident. In times like sometimes, something as simple as these, where a global pandemic sitting on the fl oor can help. is taking up most of the media conversation, it can be even more 7) Allocate yourself a daily diffi cult to stay calm. “worry period” Give yourself half an hour to Here is some advice that may give worry about this to your heart’s some comfort to those of you who are content, and then you have to go and struggling. do something else. 1) Avoid the (health-related) 8) Treat yourself news Anything that will give you a little We all want to keep up to date, boost can help. It doesn’t need to but when you have health anxiety involve spending money: you can the need to check and read the latest also cook yourself something nice, updates can become compulsive, have a hot bath, or listen to a song feeding the anxiety. Try having a you love. news detox, or allocating yourself a time limit for reading or watching 9) Remember that your news. If you’re really worried about anxious state isn’t permanent missing something crucial, you When you are in it, anxiety always can always tell friends and family feels as though it will never end, but to contact you in the event of an it will. It’s hard to remember this, emergency situation in order to keep but do try. I genuinely thought that you informed. I would never recover, and now even though we are in a public health 2) Try not to seek constant BRINGING BACK TO REALITY: From guided yogic breathing to using a strong smell, grounding exercises can help crisis, I feel calm and have things in reassurance bring you back to reality. perspective. It’s a worrying time, Seeking reassurance can make you and many of us, myself included, feel calmer for a little while, but in my tell you things will be OK, but when Dr Google is not, and never will be, understanding it’s a skewed lens, will have loved ones who might experience, it is always temporary. you start needing that reassurance your friend, especially not when you you’ll be better able to put things in be showing symptoms, but the Your brain creates a feedback cycle several times a day it’s time to take a are a suff erer of health anxiety. Nor perspective. tendency to jump to the worst case where you become increasingly step back. will message-boards and forums. scenario very rarely refl ects reality. reliant on reassurance, which only Try to remember that people visit 4) Try a countering technique Be kind to yourself. It may be a bit serves to reinforce the anxiety. It’s 3) Introduce an absolute ban on these places when they have reason This is a CBT exercise which cheesy, but this too shall pass. natural to want your loved ones to Googling symptoms to be concerned. Once you start involves giving a persistent thought – The Guardian 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, March 17, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Caution that cannot be overemphasised As the highly contagious new coronavirus continues its spread, the general public could learn a thing or two from Andrea Amelse and millions of others with weakened immune systems who already live by rules of infection control, writes Anna Maria Barry-Jester Viruses don’t pick and choose; they will latch on anywhere. Even if it’s not a serious illness for you, there are people in your life that you can infect. You have the obligation and the responsibility to take care of your loved ones ‘ — Andrea Amelse, autoimmune patient ’ Tuesday, March 17, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY ndrea Amelse knows prevent infection, Fishman said hand-washing. many of his patients don’t get For the past eight sick any more frequently than the years, she’s been general population, despite their washing her hands vulnerabilities.