Show I i I i i i ) 1 - (11 '' I( - ' - I 1 11 FT e Ap 1 I )1 1 1 1 - ---- 1 -' ' f t la A t 1 1 1'1 J ) 77 11)1 (77 -j 41:---- - 7 n 71 '' 'T L T 1 k 1 - g v 0 ' A t 1 F re cs le - i- St is IC - il Le n l n d 9 - a e n - it I c n o e o Y It e r a - e - e it I - i- Dale G Friend assistant professor of ined- - ageAyd's patients averaged 403 years and three ' yiine- at Harvird Universit- 'declared recently that other major studies two from Europe produced almost identical figures Also important on the it has opened "wide possibilities" for treating dewith a definite a distaff side is the menstrual cycle Even among single drug pressed patients step forward in the more complicated types of depression normal women mild depression occurs a day or two Dr Friend also echoed a cry that psychiatrists before menstruation begins and when a woman is this can trigger a realliserious dip have been sounding for over a decade — some docdepression-pron- e There are also some typical American habits of tors are still not alert to the depression syndrome and mind that increase the probability of depression waste their own time and their patients' money with traditional One is what New York therapist Dr Lee Salk calls to methods it treat trying Dr Frank J Ayd Jr author of the book "inverted anger" Perhaps because we are by - 1 nature a rather violent people Americans are ex"Recognizing the Depressed Patient" reviewed 500 patients tremely reluctant to show feelings of aggression and ‘ I suffering from depression Seventy- hostility "They equate getting mad with losing ' someone's love" Dr Salk says "They instinctively four per cent of them consulted a 4-- t I i smother their anger Unfortunately it returns later total of 1278 general practitioners in the form of depression" Far better say psychiafirst in search of relief from phys-j trists to pour out your feelings over failure on the ical complaints and 87 per cent 411) to finish school or an overof these received a stitdicaidiagnojob or a s X drawn bank account to a good friend or your sis The underlying depression was recognized at the first visit in spouse — and be done with it Dr Ayr! only 47 patients At the top of the complaint list among Ayd's 500 men are de- Many middle-age- d Setmages GenA Massachusetts was the at pressed by fatigue study patients discovery of their sin own limitations One man who eral Hospital concluded that this was the most comafansweses mon single symptom of depression Next comes pain prided himself on doing twice as °neck back or joints then difficulty much work as anyone else in the or stiffness inthe office was suddenly rushed to the hospital hemorin sleeping and loss of appetite often abdominal rhaging from an ulcer He recovered but his doctor pain indigestion nausea and even vomiting Delose also tend ordered sufferers him to cut his work schedule in half The to pression weight frequently result was a severe depression The man simply have bowel and urinary troubles could not accept his revised Equally common is a lessening of the sexual drive In some cases chest pains palpitation and Fortunately his doctor was alert to his symptoms Drug therapy soon had him feeling well other symptoms convince the victim he is a prime candidate for a heart attack There may also be a enough to take a less drastic view of his new role host of lesser symptoms such as shortness of breath Eventually he learned to accept and even enjoy it Other results of drug therapy have been equally headaches dryness of the mouth dizziness blurred vision ringing in the ears numbness and tingling in dramatic One man declared that before the treatment he "felt like sixty and now feels like the hands and feet hot flushes and skin outbreaks 15" Most patients don't bounce back that fast or On the strictly emotional side irthat sensationally Experts say it takes at least a week Fut I for a person to begin to shake off a depression — ritability is a prime symptom of Insanity depression among men and impulalthough tranquilizers can calm an agitated type Is oommton sive meaningless weeping among overnight A severe depression one that dips down toward total despondency women Also common is a fear of usually takes about six months and sometimes more to cure completely impending insanity almost frantic worrying over But psychiatrists say that even such sufferers are trivial matters and a terrific loss of cheered by the knowledge that help is at hand which can make a man lose a good job and reduce a woman to helplessness Ile or she finds it Ilard to That is the real news Not only is concentrate He becomes extremely forgetful and A swot the "secret sickness" a secret no indecisive and is harried by a feeling of unreality skinoss-n-o longer — its worst effects may soon Basically depression is a reaction to a disap14Ing91 Smt has be deposited in the medical dustbin But loss some almost or everyone pointment is is in his the life the What with typhoid fever and polio along way important grief This doesn't mean that we won't occasionally get individual handles his grief Many doctors feel depressed Until we manage to recreate the Garden heredity plays a prominent role In Dr Ayd's study of Eden every person's life will have some grief and of 500 victims be counted 822 relatives who were also victims of mental illness and 72 per cent of these disappointment in it But now thanks to a neat suffered from depression combination of new insights and laboratory wizardry A number of studies also connect depression with we can beat the blues before they beat us (TN( DID)) sant - Dr - r b : - - - - - - - — - - - 1 1 - I - - - t - a -- --- i 4 - 1 ' : 4- - A t - I - t ! 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