European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse F re is i i amp i r h f. % by . Komi Nicke senior staff writer Ark this those Holiday tidings of great Joy Don t always mean peace inner peace at least for All men on Earth. Stationed far from Home separated from family and friends and haunted by the ghosts of christmases past Many americans end up feeling something More Akin to hum buggery than Holiday cheer according to social workers and experts in the varied Fields of mental health. But there is a Bright Side to that Bleak news. While Many people report vague feelings of despair during the holidays few suffer True clinical disorders or take their own lives. Actual Holiday depression however much you be heard the term does t really exist. Quot we in the mental health Field always thought that it did Quot said or. Lawrence e. Kusman the army s senior psychologist in Europe. Quot clinical lore As it was passed Down warned that your patients were going to get worse at this time of year. Quot but As a group people Are fairly Happy around the Kusman a lieutenant colonel who Heads the psychology department at the army s medical Center in Lan Stuhl Germany said the incidence of suicide it a linux i t n a Tir 4 i t j Tot
