Show i N - I 1 — 01- I I ' than but usual— 1(11 LI tk A Morels a certain stage can expect to be more 1 g 1 11 ) I ' In life when you — down-in-the-dum- - -- --- to recognize i I ps - r ' 0 ' ' ' t 1 ' 't A omething narily a wrong demon at with Arthur Paine his desk Ordi- this successful could barely drag himself The more he cut down on deeper his exhaustion seemed to grow executive 610 A fr'll''''''4 was out of bed each morning N his work the As he drove to the office each morning he noticed a strange pressure on the top of his head then in the temples Twice getting up from dinner he was attacked by whirling dizzy spells In a panic he rushed to his doctor Around the same time Madeline Treacher a trim blonde housewife began having even more alarming sensations With no warning her heart would begin to beat with unnatural speed In bed she lay awake for hours wrestling with absurd worries and fears What if her husband died could she carry on alone? Would her daughter's cold develop into pneumonia? Her appetite withered away She lost close to 15 pounds Convinced she was dying she too fled in desperation to a doctor Something was wrong with Madeline Treacher and Arthur Paine But not what they feared They for were suffering from a common sickness and the layman — the least understood: depression Little more than 15 years ago most doctors knew as little about depression as their patients They puzzled over the symptoms tried to solve them as if they were physical ailments Often with no basis for the assumption they would dismiss the j e 1 1 1 011111141M 100tooftm000li 1RAMMiegifiedtgOPIIMINNIIMMNNEWIR ' i : : i 1 harried A A victim with: "Just your nerves" Today thanks to the growth in psy- chiatric sophistication throughout depression the medical profession a to suicidal doctor is constantly alert to depression's symptoms — as he should be The best experts estimate that at least half of Americans' visits to doctors' offices are caused by complaints of an emotional origin with most of the patients suffering from anxiety and depression and' in the -6o age group the percentage is even higher What is depression anyway? It involves a lowering of the spirits a drop in a person's emotional response to life Extreme cases are easy to recognize At the very lowest end of the depression spectrum a man or a woman sees life as utterly futile himself as worthless perhaps a sinner deserving terrible punishment This depression with a capital D requires From mild first-cla- 4 ss 40to- I i 4 i ( 1 t tobott You I i —DPI J e i people experience shake r--- Chief ----I - If is Section that disease has a effect on the 7 r genuine physical f I an have body Depressed people level "t7of :7 mj high abnormally hydroxycort icosteroid" (more an important ply 4i breakdown product of hormones Dr Flack produced by adrenal glands Other researchers at the Payne Whitney Clinic in New York have discovered a similar rise in calcium in the urine Dr Frederic F Vlach who has played a leading role in these researches says he feels "reasonably confident that in the not too distant future we will know how to accurately identify and measure the extent of a person's depression chemically" Doctors have already developed some potent weapons for direct attacks against depression The newest of these are the psychic energizer drugs which enable the brain to create more of a chemical substance called monoamine which stimulates nervous activity While this treatment is ideal for patients who are limp and exhausted in the style of the classic depression syndrome many other depressed people art anxious tense and overactive For these sufferers doctors in the past were inclined to prescribe tranquilizers But there was danger here — the patient could become too tranquil and i could plunge into a really serious - onstrated ) the L ' depression The laboratory men have now come up with a package solution to this problem a new dntg called Etrafon created by the Schering Corp which consists of both a tranquilizer and an antidepres- - s c i I I 1 I between however there 1 1 I ! I i 1 1 4 I 4 4 I t I 4 i 1 4 ( c i i I 1 I A A I i 1 i c i I E ''''' f-- " : ' i Ili 8 N -- ' ' :'' lop Dr Friend 6 — off of Psycho- Medicine National In-sutute of Mental Health has de- Acting somatic ld 41 LIII s1 a bewildering range of depressive reactions from mild through moderate to serious They mask themselves behind an astonishing number of physical disguises and send many people fleeing each year to their doctors in search of cures But don't for a moment succumb to the conlillOn tendency to dismiss emotional illnesses as nonexistent totally imaginary complaints A depression is as real to the person experiencing it as a bad cold is to the Kleenex user Dr NVilliam E Bunney Jr near-blacko-ut of balanced and soon In J i 1) i the we're discovering how FLEMMG 2 ! our' the symptoms and cure them BY THOMAS i 1 prompt hospital treatment before one of 2 2000 annual suicidet -- takes place At opposite end of the scale there are the everyday erno tional dips which even the best -''''''" 1 j ' 8 |