European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse To your health phobia control by Janet d Agostino medical writer confess what secret fear 13 it that set your stomach rolling your Palms sweating and you heart racing is it the deep throated nimble of a summer s Thunder storm that makes you want to Craw under the bed 7 or do you walk three blocks out at your Way to avoid your neighbor s dog because you ate Jure the skulking beast is just waiting to gnaw on your Call a nop Hobrat maybe it s Friday the 13th. The 13th Moor or anything that has the number 13 attached to it that makes your Mouth Loci As dry As stale cake phobias Rue a age aerated trait of situations and objects that Are Reni vuly Sale the oars cause one to to out of the Way to avoid the source of distress that Oid Inan / i to Safe almost everybody either As an adult or certainly As a Chiki ims had a phobia of some said David flu Hiraml. A clinical a Cho Oral at the Fra Klutt army nug Mowl cent i phobia that emerge in childhood Aio called Dvo of in vital phobia1 Chi Lcuien May develop Tea s Tofini Inal. Of Igig thu Bathtub dram or the toilet. 01 of Dii j to school. Mid or col Robert Shearer thit t of the it at the fian Kurt Hila tear of separation Inch a going to school is ii Fiti Louerl i Ai children face a school phobia a i when a. Him scum.", his Mother s Abii or a d i at Phuol Shear i cart school phobia 01 other types of phobias in Chii Cipun rarely become Scveii-1 Hough to dec in 3 treatment most children tie said eventually Oul Giov their phobia1in a supporting environment that says the i basically a a a e place " school phobia can be rented effectively with psychological i Easmunt when it Nta cres with a child s i Dop Manl sometime in addition to the to Lix Cal treatment tha . Isipra Trinu to Ranil is used said Shearer Man adults who have phobias Liy to hide their Leais because they think they Are silly childish of trivial. Recognizing the lad thai the Lear is unreasonable does riot nuke it go away phobias Usi ally do not disrupt daily life and do not require treatment Ruhland said ii the phobia does interfere with daily Lite it is Wise help because phobias can to treated Elte cutely there Are two main types of phobias simple phobias and social phobias a separate diagnosis is made for people who have agoraphobia a fear of open spaces sometimes associated with panic disorder. Agoraphobia i events its victims irom leaving their Homo or immediate neighbourhood Tor fear of having overwhelming feelings of panic. A simple phobia is the unreasonable Lear of an object 01 situation and is probably the most common for example the fear May be of snakes Oppidi phobia cats Gal phobia or of crossing Bridges Zephyr phobia those with a social phobia fear being judged by others they tend to avoid social situations where they believe they will be singled out. Ridiculed and considered inadequate. These people Are most anxious Over the embarrassment of losing control of a situation in front of others. A person with a social phobia May be afraid to speak in Iron of a group or to go to a Paity. The cause of phobias has yet to be disco cod. Exist log theories Point to a combination of psychological social or biological factors in the development of phobias. There Aio Many different typos of treatment Foi phobias but they All seem to have a common thread re Quinn the patient to confront the source of his anxiety and fear through various therapeutic techniques the cry an 1895 lithograph by norwegian artist Edvard Munch who was haunted by personal anxieties. Schizophrenia its cause remains a Puzzle associated press Lionel Aldridge a 6 foot-4. 225-Poundlotmer Green Bay Packer was afraid to go Home to believed his Wilo was a part of Abc s television spoils Asling team Aldridge was driven irom Job to Job in City after City by image any voices. He now sorts mail on the 3 30 p m. To Midnight shift in Milwaukee schizophrenia Cost him a career a manage and lust about every person i had in my life at thai time i figure he Oaid recently it Cost me everything " such Are the Slakes in schizophrenia. That s Why research advances such As recent evidence that a single Gene May cause some cases Are Mote than just nifty science. They Are another Slop in understanding a devastating disease that Slikes perhaps one in every 100 people at some Point in their lives schizophrenia usually begins Wilh an apparent personality change that nov include social withdrawal difficulty in communicating and lethargy later in its to o Active phase in can make victims see hallucinations and hear voices. They May feel controlled by invisible agents or believe their thoughts Are being broadcast to others they May adopt new identities. Nobody knows what causes the disease scientists have Long suspected an inherited Iril Cuenco and the new study provided biological evidence for a Gene in afew families but that gone is not a Factor in other families support my a longstanding suspicion of multiple factors maybe environmental and genetic. The voices and hallucinations Are gone now Lor Aldridge 47, thanks to daily medication that keeps his illness at Bay. I m enjoying relatively Good health now to said but nothing is guaranteed me Lor the future Al Dodge s Battle began in 1974, alter he retired from athletics and turned to sport casting. He had trouble concentrating to could t get his work done on time and As a result his broadcasts often ran Shorter than planned. I became very suspicious of people especially the people i worked with. The workplace Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday May 9, 1989
