European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page in the stars and stripes wednesday december �3,1987 column today s crossword is this the season to be sad the is awns of ii year Art Only what we think of them As being for a Short time Winter did i officially begin until dec. 22 hut we All know fill was Over sever Al Wicks before dial one of those in Lorn periods be to can seasons that s really no season Al All but people were talking As if it were Winter. The american psychiatric association says about -150, x 0 people will be afflicted this Winter wit what Len a Call says seasonal affective disorder they might also have called it symptoms the society says include excessive eating increased sleeping and weight i have to question the american psychiatric association diagnosis that this is a Winter disease because i had those very same symptoms last summer on vacation. It also sounds to me As though the association has invented a Nice Lille disease that its members can treat easily. I mean what s a professional society for if it does t help i dues paying members ? the affliction won t kill anyone no one will have to be hospitalized with it and if we will All go to our Friendly family psychiatrist once a week there really is no cause or worry Al All. Psychiatrists often Are faced with such difficult problems that i suppose they deserve an easy one once in a while. It seems Likely that most of us arc More Apt to be de pressed when the world around us is dark As it is Morem Winter rather than Light but docs this really Call for a group of doctors to give the feeling a name and suggest treatment Don t they have enough serious work to do with some of he nuts All around us if any of you nuts arc Reading this i m Only kidding of court ii has been my experience that depression is brought on by problems not seasons. If i get worried about my family my Job my hair my u Elk or my eyesight no amount of warm summer weather can cheer me up. If on the other hand things Are going Well in Rny life i can look out the window on a cold Gray and dreary Winter s Day and feel just Greal. I Don t have says i have glads. Or. Martin Keller a psychiatrist at Massachusetts Gen eral Hospital says that the ailment they be identified should be treated Lik c any other psychological disorder. Psychological disorder Why is being depressed about negative factors in your life 0 disorder if you were not depressed then there d be something wrong with you. It s like that sign thai was so popular for people to have on their desks a few years ago if Vou the Calm Cool and collected Vervone around you is losing is head. You probably dont under stand Tilk situation. It May be a Good thing for the american psychiatric association to have pointed out that a lot of people gel depressed in the Winter because it s a Comfort to All of us when we know that other people arc in the same kind of trouble we re in. 11 does t sound like anything psychiatrists should Bank on sending i hair kids through College treating though is says really worse than a bad cold i have several Good friends who arc psychiatrists but i be never been to one professionally. It would be inter Esting logo to a psychiatrist but. As far As i know i Don t have anything they treat and you Don t go to a psychiatrist for a yearly checkup to Sec How your psyche is. If you did the chances arc thai like most Doc tors they d find something wrong. For inc Lime being though even if i gel a Little de Resu d this Winter and suspect i have says. I think ii limit myself to going to inc kind of doctors who make in take your cloth is in the complaints women have with their lives it is always implied that inc fault lies with men. I Rise Here to our defense. First Lei me Quoc some recent head lines "56 percent of women in work Force fall fashions Call for skirts above the knee acid washed Blue j eans Are in Survey shows More women smok ing it has always seemed to Roe As a Meek mild mannered Man. That we men lend to accept whatever women choose to do. We re Happy to have inc whether we work with them or for them. We accept with equanimity the most bizarre fashions without complaint. No matter what we think we nod smile and say ii looks assume for a minute that men actually dominate women. What do you think a woman s reaction would be to any of the following demands dear i m going to have to ask you to go to work. You re going to have to gel a Job and Start making some contribution toward supporting inc family. I m tired of being the Only one making any Money around i be been meaning 10 Tell you your Skirls arc too Long 1 want you to shorten All the skirts in your closet so that they come Way above your knee. It s ridiculous for a woman with Good looking legs like yours to be hiding them under a skin that looks like a barrel. I know it s going to be difficult to be modest when you sit Down and it s going to be Grafly on a cold Day but Hal s the Way it has to be with your clothes. In inc future your Skirls will be very Short. Now i la make one exception to the Short skirt Rule. If you Don l Wear very Short skirts i want you to Wear Pauls. Yes i know pants have always been consid ered to be clothing for men but i be decided 1 want you to Wear pants. I Don l want any argument about it i be been meaning 10 speak to you about some of inc clothes j of be been wearing. They All look Loo new. I want you to get some Blue jeans that look old and worn As if they d been used for years and washed a thousand times. They should have a ragged worn out you re not going to like this but 1 want you to Start wearing sneakers out on the sired when you go to work. You can bring along your Good shoes to put on artwork if you want Bui when you re walking to work Oul in Public where everyone can see you i expect you Tower Low Flat heeled rubber Soled athletic shoes say i be noticed you Aren t smoking cigarettes. I want you to take up smoking. I d like you to smoke Al least a pack a Day. I know there is incontrovertible evidence Ihal Cigar lie smoking leads 10 lung cancer and heart disease but we men have been doing most of inc cigarette smoking for Long enough men Are responsible for a lot of bad things in the world but not for any of the above. C to brio Modo us vices across i we Phe sews. Lotsof a skews. 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