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ever, the album, composed by Rohit Sharma, is any- on classical, its one of those melancholic numbers
WEEK ENDING 4TH MARCH, 2017 thing but that. The songs, seven original and three that you want to listen to on loop. It seems a little
bonus tracks, are fun in a non-Bollywood way. out of place in an album thats replete with folksy
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Tantra will focus majorly on WHAT IS PLAYBACK ly basis, broke int alo ne . Blam e it on psychiatrist and cognitive therapist, Dr Shefali Batra,
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womens issues This form THEATRE? coming to an end, e inc rea sing demand to This is a sudden and overwhelming feeling of fear. One of
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helps audience relate to the the daily grind but more my clients, a young woman, told me she was in the middle of
The form generally has a conductor, on various levels,
experience and also acts as a meet expectations to pa nic dis or der (PD) a wedding when it happened. A panic attack kind of grips
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healing agent. It can also be actors and musicians. The conductor people are succumb this affects more women you and gives a feeling of a sense of impending doom. Pri-
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called a psychodrama, used in helps in narrating the incidents and than ever before. An marily, the first time most people have one, they really think
dies.
drama therapy, where people explaining it to the actors while the than men, say stu it is a heart attack as the heart is pounding, there could be a
see their suppressed feelings actors and musicians, based on tugging in the chest, you may even have a drop in blood pres-
and experiences unfold on their understanding, build up a sure and everything is spinning around you are convinced
stage. It gives them a sense of performance. you will die. I spoke to a man who had an airplane phobia. He
liberation, adds Dhanashree, was to fly to the US for his best friends bachelor party. But just
who performed with Nidhi the invitation to it and the thought that he might have to attend
Dhanashree. theatre group, Natak Company, started
Bhowmik, Payal Kawale, Kani- gave him a panic attack. So, whenever a person gets the feeling
In this concept, a conductor doing shows of their improvisational
ka Kulshreshtha, Rashmi Gupta, that he or she will be exposed to his to her fear and knows he or
helps the audience member narrate the play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. These
Prashant Singh and Saqib Zia Khan on she cant escape it, a panic attack is triggered. You know you will
incident to the actors as well as the solo performances have no rehearsals
Thursday. have to face something you cant handle, she says.
crowd. Then, the same is discussed by and the artiste is given the script on Panic attacks
The group had organised a Theatre Often, the reasons for such attacks are unfounded. Affirms Dr
the actors and musicians, post which it stage, just before performing. Ask can have a
for Therapy workshop in December Batra, Little reasons can make people anxious for those who
is enacted on stage. Actors and musi- Dhanashree how Stree Tantra is differ- variety of
last year, where Mostafa Kamal Jatra, a fear spiders, the very mention of a holiday in a rainforest can cause
cians get around a minute and a half to ent and she explains, We have no writ- triggers
theatre person from Bangladesh, intro- a panic attack as it triggers fears of insects and being bitten. Decid-
formulate ideas and 3-7 minutes to per- ten material in hand. We listen to the
duced them to playback theatre. Since ing to take up a new job on a higher floor can also cause one if a per-
form, depending on the length and im- stories and enact them immediately. To
there are almost no groups doing this son is afraid of heights or elevators.
pact of the story. do this, an artiste requires great obser-
in Pune or Mumbai, we thought of ex- Not very long ago, another city-based vational skills and we have developed
perimenting with the form, says them over time.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PANIC
WHAT CAN HAPPEN AND STRESS
Unlike general belief, panic and stress are both
Panic is an intense fear that arises out of any
different. Under an anxiety attack a
reason, which results in strong physical reac-
person may feel worried, nervous and angry. But
tions. Reveals psychotherapist Sonera Jhaveri,
a panic attack is often unprovoked and has more
This starts with a sensation in the body an ac-
severe reactions. In the latter, the person may be
celerated heart rate, shortness of breath, anxiety-
seized with terror and even feel he or she is dying.
provoking thoughts, palpitations, vertigo and more. If you
have all these together more than once, its classified as a
syndrome. Panic attacks are on the rise for people now as
there is an underlying level of trauma and fear on how to DONT IGNORE IT
deal with life everyday, which makes them feel out of con- Most often, a panic attack is swept aside and mistaken to be just
trol. There could be a lot more complex reasons to it stress. Says 27-year-old advertising executive Rashmi Jha, A month
such as an incident in the past, like an accident. Attach- ago I worked non-stop and had to deal with difficult clients. I had
ment issues are another huge reason for it. Panic thus be- started to develop palpitations and thought it was just due to fatigue.
comes a symptom of this trauma. I later found out that I was having a panic attack. Says therapist
Such an attack can also be frightening. Panic is not just Deepa Shah, A panic attack can go largely unnoticed and have no
about a normal fear. It can range from making someone proper diagnosis. People may also feel embarrassed to tell others
feel he or she is falling down or is having a heart attack, about the their attack and suffer it out. But its perfectly okay to come
she explains. forward and seek help and one should.