European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday August 31, 1978 an unhappy Soldier can t feedback expert eases stress Here s How it works Cape. James Blok clinical psychologist at the mental health clinic of the army Hospital in Berlin demonstrates Bio by Leah Larkin staff writer feedback methods to army air Force times reporter Jay Finegan. Blok is applying wire sensors to his hand. Story and photo by Jim Arwine staff writer Berlin i is the machine used for training people in the techniques of Bio feedback is nothing More than a very fancy and expensive thermometer said capt. James Blok a clinical psychologist at the mental health clinic of the army Hospital Here. The native of Ypsilanti mich., recently extended his european military tour to put a Bio feedback program into effect for the Berlin military Community. He Hopes to have a fully equipped lab and eventually a us a eur wide Bio feedback program. Blok explained that Bio feedback is a technique of controlling emotions through the use of a skin sensor. Control of the emotions can help a person modify involuntary body functions such As heartbeat. Blok said the procedure is new for a Mil itary Hospital in Europe and has to prove its Worth before it will be accepted by the medical Community. We re excited. It s a new area said Blok. There s a lot of re search that has to go in to using the Bio feedback technique before it will be considered anything More than new. Bio feed Back is faddish. You have to be clinical uses of Bio feedback techniques Are Only beginning to surface Here he said and one thing to keep in mind is that the treatment is Only an addition to other med ical treatment. It s not a the machine used by Blok s patients registers body heat. A sound and visual meter tells the patient and psychologist when the patient is conscientiously control Ling subconscious body temperature which sweepstakes Winner has a Happy problem is a direct reflection of body relaxation isaid. Not All people can gain from this Typ of treatment he said. And there Are Usu ally two Days of verbal relaxation training and familiarity with the machine before the actual Bio feedback begin to show improvements after Only a few sessions he said. The Yare really surprised that they can actually learn to relax and help rid themselves of headaches. They tend to enjoy it and become real pains ulcers muscle spasms and Many other ailments fall into the realm of ailments Bio feedback May Aid he said. Blok has been concentrating his Bio feedback treatment in the area of stress which is at the Root of Many mental and physical problems. An unhappy Soldier can t Cope with i problems or military situation he said. Many of our clients in the mental health clinic Are Young enlisted folks and their to life in Berlin can take its toll on the mental stability of the military Man or woman and their dependents he is a source of stress. It s not unique to Germany but it s in the fore front because of the Dollar Exchange rate he said. Blok said we can t re create the United states Here in the Middle of but he said that the mental health clinic has Good programs to help military personnel Here solve problems they May have and that Bio feedback will play an Ever increasing role in treatment. Who do you do with a half million dollars London is Navy Petty officer Marsha Dawn Brashear. 31, data process ing technician second class earns about. Flo,000 a year. At that salary she would have to work so. Years to earn the Cash that became hers one Day last june. It was the Day she won the Irish sweepstakes 250,000 pounds Soo,000 super prize. _ tos Young woman who used to save pennies for trips now spends hundreds of dollars for financial counselling. Instead of worrying about paying her rent she Wor Ries about tax shelters. I be heard people who have won a lot of Money say it won t change them she said. Yet it has to. It gives you a certain amount of Confidence. Doors open to me. It s an entirely new feeling. I Call my Bank and say i want to talk to them and the drop she just about dropped everything when she heard she had won the big prize. She was at work at the Headquarters Here of naval forces Europe. They told me i had a Long distance phone Call. I went to the phone and it was a bad connection so i Hung up. I thought they were joking. But the phone rang again. This time a Man said i had won the Irish Hospital sweepstakes. I started Shak ing. I think i went numb. I did t believe it but he kept asking How i Felt. I was t feel ing anything. It took him 10 or 15 minutes to convince As she casually discusses Gas and Oil leases and cattle feeding it s obvious that Marsha Brashear no longer doubts her financial status. These Are among the tax shelters she is investigating As invest ments. She has until november to make her decisions. If she has t found tax Shel ters by then Uncle Sam will get 70 percent of her Fortune. To help her make the right decision she Marsha Brashear. Have to Hud out what to do with this is Schuettler is paying financial advisers $250 per hour for help. It s my Money. I Don t want to lose everything. I m learning a lot she said. Brashear has no intention of indulging in a wild spending spree. Her first Purchase was a car not a Mercedes or Maserati but a Ford. She announced happily i paid Cash for it before learning she was a sweepstakes Winner she had re enlisted in the Navy for four More years. She could certainly live without her salary but she rationalizes if i got out i d Brood too much about All this when she does get out. She says she won t work for a year and she will take a trip around the world. For the immediate future she sees no drastic change in her lifestyle. She does want to buy some new clothes. An maybe i la get a right after she won she was the focus of attention at work. But now i m just one of the troops again. The Only difference is. That i can pay Cash and they can All because of a Small Purchase last april. "1 had never bought an Irish sweep stakes ticket before. But i had a couple of extra dollars that Day. A Guy came around Selling she bought three of the tickets at two pounds about h each. Then i just filed them away and forgot All about since Irish sweepstakes winners Are announced publicly Brashear was besieged by the press. Then she went Home to visit her family in Sunnyvale calif., and bought them plane tickets to Europe. During their stay they All went to Ireland and visited the sweepstakes office. Luck has brought Marsha Brashear a Fortune and taught her a lesson. Money does t solve All your problems. My prob lems Are just different now " j
