European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Handling that by sue Miller Baltimore evening Sun Omen need to take a lesson from men on How to handle he blues says a clinical psychologist in the United Sites who has found tha 93 percent of the nation s working women Are caught up in a blues  women in a Low mood alien become inactive turn inward and Start focusing on their Laws deflating their sell esteem and worrying about All kinds of things. This is the psychological equivalent of ruining Barefoot into a blizzard Wilh a blossoming head cold says Harriet b. Braiker an author and lecturer with a private practice in los Angeles. But most men Deal with Blue moods differently. They lend to become More Active engaging in activities hat Chis Kracl them item thinking about their Tow moods and problems. And they charge their failures to bad Luck rather Hart to personal fews or Lack of  need to learn to be very sensitive to the earliest warning signs which i Call the Blue Alert understanding that depression just does not hit you like a ton of bricks she says. If you develop a kind of an emotional radar system you Wilt be Able to know and learn your own warning signals and abort the  a great majority of he 1.000 working women Braiker surveyed said that the three most frequent causes behind their episodes of depression were too Many demands on their time feeling drained by the needs of other people and feeling tired. Those rankings confirm the importance of Type a stress the stress of being everything to everybody As a major cause of mood problems among women said. Braiker who first identified Type e stress and Wreata the Type Wecman m 1986 ii women begin to eel they Are under chronic stress it s a real Good bet thai the next thing dial is going to happen is that their a Vood is going to  the psychologist said in an interview. That s the strongest predictor in this Survey of mood  the women surveyed came Tram All regions of the United states and from All socioeconomic and occupational groups. Almost half 43 percent said they gel the blues or fee depressed at least once a month. Almost Ona Quarter 23 percent said they feel depressed once a month. Women who have never been married and relatively younger women reported a tendency to have the blues or gel depressed slightly Moro often than those who were married or those in the Onemo group. And women whose household incomes exceeded $50,000 were less Likely to report frequent bouts of depression than women whose household incomes what to takes to Cope with career discontent by Gina Kolata ,.newyork times. A new study in the United slates focuses on professionals who arc intensely. Dissatisfied with their careers  or trapped in roles thai do not meet their. Expectations. The research  thai seem to help some of these people emerge irom these periods of malaise with renewed happiness and satisfaction in their lives h reflects a recent emphasis among porno american psychologists on How people can nurture change and. Growth in adulthood rather than simply learning to. Accept Ichii Rolos and  often have viewed professionals doubts about the direction of their lives As a " failure to accept the life one is living said or. Douglas Labier. A Washington psychologist with the project on adult lives an organization thai studies How people adapt to crises and conflicts in their careers and personal lives. The usual concept is that maturity and Fullil ment come from a successful adaptation to the norms of the culture Labier said. The successful Lite is one in which a person accepts what a achieves in it and. Does t complain.", -.-. By contrast the new study emphasizes ways in which some people seek to increase personal satisfaction in life rather than simply accepting its limitations.,. In Robert Rosen a psychologist and president of healthy companies a Virginia consulting concern that helps companies to Cope with the discontents of their workers supports the approach. Labier he said is. Moving in the right direction in looking at the positive Side of development and not the negative  if you can understand what successful people do. You can use Hal to help prevent other people from having problems he added. Labier conducted extensive interviews and gave Standard psychological tests to More than 100 professionals mostly College educated business people scientists doctors and lawyers who were deeply unhappy with i hair jobs. Labier studied the participants while they were in their jobs and followed them Tor up to a year As they adapted or resigned themselves to their fates. Some of the study participants who adapted Well changed Obs. While others restructured their jobs to make them More satisfying. Allol those who were successful in adapting to heir situations developed their lives outside of work. About half of the study participants remained unhappy and concluded that they would have to resign themselves to be discontented but others who underwent this crisis of values Weie Able to change their lives to make them More fulfilling Labier said.  ,. In detailed interviews Wilh these men and women. Labier has identified characteristics that enabled them to change their outlooks. The work not yet published will form the basis of a forthcoming Bocc ho.sakj.-. The first trait is an almost spiritual mystical kind of longing for a connection of a larger  their Day to Day lives Labier. Lound. This is often resolved in religious practices meditation or even activities like gardening that give a person a sense of nature to said. For. One person this look the cum of learning and Prelc timing his musical instrument he added it opened up for him a sense of he Beauty of sound Page 14 the stars  tuesday -i1