European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday May 23, 1977 modern Medicine anger Don f keep if. In that could be dangerous Dezarm by Michael j. Halberstam  child screams with rage when her older brother takes away her favorite toy. And he Mother tells her to quiet Down because the neighbors will hear  an executive emerges from the rant office his Ace pushed with anger he could not vent again this Boss. A woman sits in a restaurant and loudly protests her husband s lateness another diners sympathize with the husband. In this culture getting mad is consid ered an unpardonable breach of etiquette a dangerous loss of control a sign even of in sanity. Yet anger is As Normal and healthy a Eeling As hunger fatigue love sadness an Joy. Anger is a Complex emotion that n based upon deeper feelings. People even babies become angry when their needs Are frustrated when they eel threatened or put  when they Are a raid or when some body hurts or rejects them Breaks a prom ise reminds them of a failure misunderstands or refuses to listen to them. The problem is that Many people become angry without Ever knowing Why. They prefer to ignore the powerful Eeling the cannot understand and the accumulated fury like an unopened sore eventually Poi sons their bodies minds and relationships with others. Unexpressed anger can Rob As of sleep or make us sleep too much it can cause blood pressure to Rise even Lottie Point of a stroke. It can make necks stiff Heads ache stomachs churn and ulcers perforate the Lin Ings of the latter. Anger held in can bloc Kour sexual feelings o the Point of frigidity and impotence. Gunny sacked anger also distorts behaviour. One of the most Universal effects is de pression or anger turned inward upon oneself. Pent up rage can cause a frustrated wife to gossip viciously As she vents he Wrath against others and make her husband work late at the office where he can punish her by his absence. Anger can cause explosive temper tantrums crying outbursts Nal biting. Anxiety guilt overeating under rating Accident proneness. Dangerous driving chronic worry and sexual excess. It even plays apart in drug abuse and alcoholism. In its ultimate form displaced anger causes people to kill themselves and others. Many people try to mask anger by dial ing  or resorting to sullen silence con tempt for others bullying  or denial that anything is wrong. Thus unreleased anger blocks the Good filings people have for one another deadening love and creativity and causing every imaginable form of human unhappiness. Why Are people so terrified of anger Many fear that i they express it others will retaliate or Stop Loving them or desert  arc afraid to show How strongly they care or to learn Why they care so strongly. A direct expression of anger is not hatred but a display of deep concern and feeling about someone or something. It is a sign that the angry person wants to bring problems to the surface and try to solve  to express anger directly is no easy task since most of us have been trained since childhood to suppress it. The first step is to let ourselves really get mad. This take courage practice and occasionally professional counselling if feelings Are buried deeply  we need to learn Why we Are angry an even More difficult task because it involves looking beyond immediate irritations to deeper causes. Finally we need to express that anger loud and Clear at the real target Complete with shouting and table pounding if the feeling is Strong enough. Even More important we need to blast off atthe moment of anger not three hours Days. Or months  Are other healthy ways to dispel anger provided we understand its cause we can log dance beat rugs work out with a punching bag. Throw darts write a letter about the anger scream or do anything else that does not cause physical harm to our selves or others. Small periodic blow ups release pres sure. One great Long delayed explosion destroys. And the principal victims of our repressed rage Are most often ourselves. Al of fax vry43 evangelist roberts44 Tunney or autry45 jewish month46 impudent talk Colloq 48 Indian today is crossword Landers 5 23 dear readers recently printed a letter from a woman whose husband enjoyed Dressi Ngop in her clothes. I said some  say a Transve utes Are either homosexual or by  sentence unleashed a flood of angry responses from hundreds of transvestites their wives and sweethearts. I was to Din no Uncertain terms and in printable language that i am of my  crazy As a Loon ill informed living in the dark Ages and to crawl Back under that  Tucson Aru take it Back. You make an awful lot of trouble or me. I enjoy dressing up in women s clothes have or years. My wife loves to see me put on a fashion show. I am Nei ther bisexual nor am i homosexual. Our sex life is great after your column appeared my wife kept me up half the night insist ing that i Tell her what Guy i am seeing on the Side. Please print this letter so she will get Oft my Back. I swear i am straight from Orlando Fla my wife and i have been married 12 Yea Sand i have never looked at another woman or a Man. I resent your statement that just because i enjoy dressing in ladies gown Sand slippers that i am a Homo sexual. We play these Little games about once a week in the privacy of our Home. Once in awhile we invite another couple in who enjoy the same thing. But whenever Swap partners and i have no desire to make love to a  get your facts straight. From Berwyn Iii my boy Friend is Beautiful. I wish i were half As Good looking lie sur prised me one Day by bringing a Complete Emale wardrobe along on a weekend trip. The iwo of us. Decided to go to a first class restaurant for dinner with him wearing his Best dress. Ii thrilled me when Heads Lumen to look Al the gorgeous Gal not me him. He is straight As a rail and is a fantastic Lover. If a Man makes a pass at him when he is dressed up he becomes very indignant. 1 can t speak for the others but i can Tell you my Guys no Homo. Run a retraction Kiddo. So now. Dear readers i will repeat my original statement some psychiatrists say All transvestites Are either homosexual or  please note the word  i have checked further and have additional opinions from two of Chicago s most distinguished psychiatrists. Both or. George Pollock director of the Institute of psychoanalysis in Chicago and or. Harold Visotsky chairman of the department of psychiatry at Northwestern University medical school and Northwestern memorial Hospi Tal said As follows approximately 28 per cent of the Cross dressers Are either homosexual or bisexual but the majority Are heterosexual and have no inter est in other males. They get their jollies dressing up and that s As far As they go. When i asked or. Pollock if such behaviour was Normal a word most psychiatrists deplore he reputed. Not if the Cross dressing produces  so now you have an idea of what my week has been like. How was yours Sci Mil Fie a enl rpm inc