Show INSANITY HELD SUICIDE CAUSE GAUSE GAUSEN N Specialist Declares Mental 1 Unbalance Is Responsible Hv A L HALE NIsA EA Sen Sr Ice Writer Wi NEW JEW YORK Y April 12 head l Head Headlines L lines and alarms notwithstanding standing this isis little epidemic epidemIc of o student dent suicides is no epidemic at Rt atall all For this take tho the word of or Dr A. A A. A A. A Drill Brill eminent American psychiatrist psych and an neurologist It Is merely morely undue notice which has bas created the popular opinion that young oung America Is on tho the verge of 01 extinguishing Itself As a mat- mat mator matter tr ter or of or fact tact suicides sui IJes among young oung persons aro are decreasing Every Ever time an on honor student or ora ora ora a l bo boy oy of ot agnostic tendency or 01 a a. areader areader reader of oC kills hin hinl- said Dr Drill Brill the lie papers his death to overwork Ir- Ir religion or Intellectual pessimism The truth of or the tho matter Is that he killed himself because he lie was Insane Only persons affected by a awell awell well defined donned typo ty of or ever till kill themselves Of or sill all all all' suicides at least 80 per er cent are victims of or manIc depressive insanity The Tho Theother Theother other 20 O per pel cent either cither kill them them- themselves themselves selves accidentally or because of or alcoholic AKL AHI- NOT OT OT L But has never nevel a I case cose of or suicide In which the vie vic victim lm tim was IlS mentally normal Ho lie was aJ wasa aJa a potential 1 l from the mo mo- moment moment mo- mo moment ment of ot his birth The fact tact that young persons often oCten kill themselves Is explained by the effect of adolescence on mental menial balance At critical mo mo- moments moments ments nicoLe In his life lire the victim of o manic depressive Insanity Is liable to o nervous collapse Women often otte Kill themselves after childbirth or at later critical periods of o life lite for the same rea rca reason reason son that thal adolescents kill them them- nit DR A It A. A A DRILL selves becausE because strain has upset heir emotional balance and an their old n old tendency conquers II CASKS SES The manic depressive disorder says sal Dr Brill always s manifests itself Its In extremes of ot exultation and depression following apparent apparent apparent ent cause The nervous organism becomes so badly bad adjusted that the per per- person person person son loses loss all nIl sense Bense of or proportion takes small ills as os tragedies and may kill 1111 himself for tor an absurdly trifling rifling reason Thus press accounts of or a re recent re- re recent recent cent boy in Brooklyn at- at attributed attributed the act of or the boys toys re- re norse morse over o a small theft of or money from his father The boy bo did not kill himself because beca e of tho the theft declared Dr Dc BrIll but because he he was sas a n. manic Youngsters often orten take small ISmail amounts of o money with with- without without out permission during durin adolescence DESIRE TOR FOn MONEY Y The need for tor money mone is a result of or the growing growing- sex sec Impulse which urges boys to get menus for enter enter- entertaining entertaIning taming their girl friends If JC they the aro caught their sex impulse Is thwarted In this minor phase and sometimes they the tho kill ill themselves But even then only the tho manic manic- depressive typo resorts to suicide Love Lo affairs arc are contributory causes ca es to suicides Dr Drill Brill said salol a or 01 girl los- los lug Ing ng a sweetheart wishes he were dead and next month has a new I los 10 ove e. e The Tho manic depressive wishes he tic were dead and sets sels about It before his balance has been re reestablished re- re reestablished reestablished established by a new romantic at at- at attachment NOT OT TIlE SOX REASON Business men often kill themselves them selves because they have lost money mone But business reverses never killed ed a normal person I have known kY-iown men who ho lost money fell tell Into extremes of manic depressive Insanity reco recovered recovered ered their money but were not cured The money mone loss had dis dis- disturbed disturbed a n. precarious balance but the insanity kept the person de depressed tie tie- depressed pressed regardless of or regaining the money mone And so said aId Dr Drill Brill to attribute attribute attn bute student suicides to 10 overwork or on to pessimistic philosophy stud- stud studIed led In college Is to put the cart before the horse S No lo one but a victim of manic manic- depressive Insanity S would be at attracted at- at attracted t II to the t pessimist rm philosophy lo p Normal students will not be at- at affected by it it because they will re regard re- re gard It objectively Examine any apy al case CaC recently re reported re- re reported ported parted and you will fond that the boy Joy had a n history of or previous manic depressive lve attacks 00 00 |