European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 18, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 suffering from school phobia by Gayle Young United press International t Erese Denehan told her 6-year-old daughter Tara to stay put in their new York Cit apartment Tor two minutes while she ran out Toby sugar. Two minutes later Tara had banged on All the third floor neighbors doors screaming hysterically that her Mother was missing. By the time Denehan got Back upstairs the police were on the Way. I did t know what to do with her said Denehan in her upper West Side apartment. Tara could t leave my Side Lor a minute. The first Day of school she was on the floor crying with Tara was diagnosed a few months later As suffering from school phobia a separation anxiety disorder that psychologists say affects up to 5 percent of All children nationwide. Psychologists have recently become interested in school phobia because some studios indicate it May be the first manifestation of agoraphobia a crippling disorder whose sufferers panic whenever they leave the safety of their Homes. Children with school phobia become extremely anxious when separated from the family because they have an irrational fear their parents siblings and even pets will die while they Are away. The irrational fear is Seldom expressed by the child who instead complains of stomach aches diarrhoea sore throats and headaches anything to get out of going to school Camp or even the Corner store alone psychologists say. The aches and pains Are real. Induced by the extreme stress irom which the child is suffering. Kids realize they Are being irrational so they cover up said Rachel Gittelman who Heads the Only school phobia clinic in the United states at Columbia presbyterian Hospital in new York. They Are taken from. One doctor to another. Only about 10 percent Are properly diagnosed and the disorder strikes both boys and girls at All Ages but most cases occur in 12-year-old9, Gittelman said. Often a trauma such As an Accident or a death in the family will touch off the problem she said. Julie Kime a pretty Green eyed teen Ager bore up Well when a close Friend of the family died one summer a few years ago. But she panicked that fall when she started her Sophomore year at Pachek Valley High school in new Jersey. Eventually refusing to attend a single class the straight a student followed her Mother to work every Day. Doing Homework while Marcla Klee did bookkeeping for her firm. We could t get her into the school building because she was so sick when she got there Marcla said. Both Julie and Tara were successfully treated at Guttelman s clinic where they first Learned to articulate their fears and then overcome them by taking increasingly longer trips away from Home with the reassurances of their parents. Julie Klee telephoned her father several times a Day from school to Check some children Are medicated with the same anti depressant drugs prescribed to adults who surfer from phobias and panic attacks Glt Lelman said. Without treatment most children with school phobia will eventually grow out of the problem she said. But recent studies have shown a High number of agoraphobic suffered from school phobia As children. The results Are inconclusive but some psychologists Erma Bombeck believe school phobia holds the key to severe adult disorders. We believe Many of these disorders May be genetic because they seem to pass from one generation to another said David h. Barlow director of the phobia and anxiety disorder clinic at the state University of new York in Albany. We have to pay a lot More attention to anxiety disorders of children he said it s been a neglected Tara s Mother can remember suffering from school phobia when she was a child in her native Ireland and has recently sought help for anxiety she feels As an adult. E i am hoping with Tara we can Slop it now. When she s still Little she said. It is so misunderstood. The nun Al school were just terrible calling her spoiled and they were very disgusted. Ii would be so helpful if people especially in the school systems were aware this Tara now Al lends third Grade daily Al a Catholic school near her Home. She has gone by herself to a store on an errand. Julie entered her freshman year at College in Pennsylvania this month. We Haven t heard irom her in a couple of Days her Mother said. It s very Day i wait for some Tacky writer to come out and lament the High Price of wedding gifts. I know. It s a Lousy Job but someone has to do it. Of so what has happened to the plastic salad bowl and tongs that Cost $15.95 and look like heirlooms or How about the four Bamboo place Mats that got you a sit Down dinner at the reception and a place in the receiving line in my Day if someone got you four Job Tell. They had the Promise of your first child. I m telling you it s a new Day for brides. I be been invited to ceremonies where i d never seen the Bride to be in anything but bib overalls. She lived on beaches Lor six years eating raw berries and playing the guitar. She had no idea How to turn on a stove and the closest she came to domesticity was a plastic Fork tucked in her sweatband. J3h returns to civilization to be married and the first words she utters Are Gilt when i Check through her list for a wedding present tuned in to jogging by Lee Siegel associated press logging to your favorite tunes May make exercise seem less stressful says a researcher who found nine runners released lower Levels of a stress chemical when they listened to Rock music. What we have shown in this simple study is already known to thousands of people who Are logging while listening to music the music is helping them said Ohio stale University pharmacologist Gopi a. Tejwant. He and graduate physiology student and Jogger Eric Miller who performed the study with funds from weight watchers foundation had nine experienced runners jog on a Treadmill Lor two 30-minute sessions. In the first session five joggers wore portable stereo headphones and the others did t. Then they switched. It s Light Rock music Tejwani said. It s a collection of a lot of songs. There were some songs by Diana Ross and Donna summer analysis of blood samples showed the runners who listened to music had significantly lower Levels of Beta endorphin a natural opiate released by the brain in response to stress or pain. Yet music did t cause any difference in the runners exercising heart rates or their Levels of lactate a byproduct of Energy use during exercise. Tea run Nara questioned repeatedly As they jogged also said they Felt less while listening to the music. These results suggest stereo music decreases the psychological stress associated with the exercise As evidenced by the Lack of increase in the Beta endorphin level but does not affect the physical stress Tejwant said in a paper presented in Anaheim calif., at the annual meeting of the federation of american societies for experimental biology. Tejwant said a person with a heart problem might want to avoid music while jogging because he might Over exert himself without knowing it but he said that s pure or. Bob Goldman vice chairman of the Amateur athletic Union s sports Medicine committee said he was t surprised by the findings previous studies have concluded music affects heart and breathing rates and blood pressure and can lower Beta endorphin Levels during other types of exercise he said. Just look at the Sony Walkman portable stereo Mutie molten jogging More fun. Market Goldman said in a Telephone interview irom Chicago. Bui there s also a danger because a lot of joggers and bicyclists run and ride with their headphones on very loud and they re oblivious to he said. If you have Madonna or Prince or Michael Jackson on you re not going to hear the car Goldman and Tejwani said the stress reducing benefits of music probably occur Only when the listener enjoys the music. The therapeutic value of music has been known for a Long time Tejwani said adding music has been used As an adjunct to a Estheia for surgery and to Speed the recovery of injured people. Why do they play music in a gym and generally very upbeat music asked Goldman who also is director of sports Medicine research at Chicago osteopathic medical Center. They play it because it aids the training she has listed words like Wallace. Wedgwood and water Ford. Where do these kids learn language like that they certainly Don t pick it up from their parents. I suppose there was a time when if a couple would t get a Silver Candle snuffer in their pattern they weren t legally married. But when sanity took Over gift giving became More practical. Now we Are Back to tradition again. Among the most requested gifts kids want today Are Posta makers components Lor their stereos answering machines Vars food processors and espresso Cappuc Cino machines. Of sure and i want eight glasses that match and a cookie Sheet that does t look like an Oil pan from the garage but who says i m going to get it a sister to a Grade school intend of my second son who used to hang around when they played Tennte sent us an invitation to her wedding recently. The entire family decided to Chip in so we could buy one Nice gift instead of five Chintzy ones f invited them Over for the unveiling Belore i wrapped it. They stood around like they were witnessing a birth in a Manger. Finally they All stared into the Box. What is it one of them asked. It s a Pickle Fork. In her How much did it Cost ventured another voice. will she know that she asked. I m leaving the sales slip in the the Bride to be probably needs tin ironing Board a tool Box a Cookbook dish rags heating pad scissors Exten Sion cords Light bulbs and plastic leftover dishes but maybe the Pickle Fork in her pattern is a part of the dream we All have when we get married. Maybe the stuff does t fit us now but Well grow into it. Until then the Pickle Fork is great Lor picking the lock on a bathroom door when the kids lock themselves in. 1c i. Lot an to tin i
