The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 59, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1982 Page: 24 of 24
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THE BAYTOWN SUN_Thursday, Jxnmry 7,19t2
Phobics Tackle Their Fears Head-On At Clinic
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Doug
Wt so trapped when be got into an
elevator that be began ripping at his
clothes. Judy’s hands shook when she
served food. Marleen could not drive
across a bridge or shop in a crowded
store.
They are phobics - people whose lives
are hampered by terrifying fears
generated in their own minds.
Now Doug, Judy and Marleen are lear-
ning to change by doing the very things
they fear most. It begins at a phobia
clinic like the one at the White Plains
Hospital Medical Center.
"1 had to deliver some papers at
sebool. I got up there and handed them to
the woman and I got red. My tongue was
, tied. I got these weird physical feel-
togs,” Marleen said at a recent session
where participants spoke to a reporter
with the understanding that their real
names not be used.
Her fellow phobics nodded as the
..woman continued: “You never know
when It’sgoingto happen.’’
Marleen has a form of agoraphobia,
* commonly called “housewife’s disease,”
but authorities say it affects men and
women alike. It encompasses many
fears - traveling away from home, be-
ing in crowded places, being alone in an
elevator, riding a train or subway.
It can prevent phobics from living nor-
mal lives.
Doug lives in the suburbs but works in
New York City. His tear of being closed
in will not let him take a commuter train
to work. Instead, he opts for the
headaches of btfmper-to-bumper driv-
ing. '•
He is afraid of elevators, so
psychiatrists at the phobia clinic sent
him out with a trained aide to conquer
the fear.
An aide stood outside the elevator as
Doug went in alone. The doors closed
and a maintenance man stopped the
elevator between floors.
“I pressed the ‘on’ button to make It
work again. It didn’t work. I don’t
remember what happened next,” Doug
~ ‘fold the^peup; twisting the fid of his^
shirt in his hands.
What happened is that Doug felt
Kendalls Farm Scene
himself trapped and began removing his
clothes. He was barechested when the
aide and maintenance man freed him
from the elevator.
Psychiatrists say that Doug is getting
better by doing the thing that scares
him, at first with the aide and then alone.
The clinic teaches phobics that they can
disease or some physiol illness.
“All I knew was there was something
wrong with my body and I didn’t know
what it was,” said BUI, another phobic.
“All I knew was that I reacted under cer-
tain conditions and the reaction couldn’t
be controlled.”
In
cpntrol their panic if they just let it hap-
pen and monitor the fear as it rises and
falls.
“You go through a couple of terrible
experiences and it goes away,” Dr.
Frederic J. Neuman, leader of the
group, told Doug. “You say to yourself,
‘If Ididn't go crazy then, Iwon’t.’”
Phobics are not crazy, psychiatrists
say. Thor are afraid of fear, afraid of
losing control, afraid of embarrassing
themselves. They haVe taken a natural,
healthy emotion — fear — and let it rim
theirlives.
Ordinary events such as entering a
new store for the first time set off alarm
bells of panic, sweating, rapid
breathing, a feeling of impending death
or collapse and dizziness, all for reasons
the phobic cannot understand.
“If you Imagine the most terrible thing
in the world happening, a phobic person
feels that in an ordinary, everyday cir-
cumstance,” said Jo Ann Antonelli, an
aide and former phobic who for 12 years
was afraid to leave her house.
Dr. Manuel D. Zane, who founded the
clinic 10 years ago, said that phobias
develop because of stress, usually in the
early 20s as young adults confront for the
first time emotional upheavals like
death, sickness, graduation, childbirth,
marriage or divorce.
“They get into life a little bit and start
getting some of the real pressures and
that’s when it starts to happen, when the
stresses begin,” Zane said.
The feelings are increased by the fact
that the phobic feels alone with the fear,
hesaid.
“No one talks about it. You grow up in
a society where you don’t ordinarily
disclose what we're feeling,” Zane said.
“You finally feel you can’t stand it and it
just bursts out in a panic.” r
Phobics sometimes mistake the reac-
tion for high blood pressure, heart
MOO to learn how to control the reaction
and to recognize that their fears are not
coming from reality but from their im-
aginations. '_
A six-month follow-up on one group
Showed 71 percent felt they had been
helped by the clinics and progressed
even further afterwards. The figures
were similar on a four-year follow-up.
Most of those in Dr. Neuman’s group
showed progreas by their third week.
: guests, still has not stopped the
fear or the shaking. Ruth, married and
in her early Sts, said she had terrible
dreams about being crushed in an
elevator that shrinks like a tight box
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drove by bereelf across a bridge that she
pulled her car off the road and sat for an
hour.
Like many phobics in the clinic, she
and her reactions. And like many,
Marleen Is finding this year, for in-
stance, she had a different approach to
the holidays._
“I have a terrible fear with the
holidays comtag of Christmas shopping
in crowded stores,” she said. “I usually
have it done before Thanksgiving
because I can’t take crowded stores.”, . .
But this year, Marleen waited until the
Christmas rush to do all her shopping.
She smiled u she tbSTthe group :
reason.
"I want to be like a normal person,”
she said. _ ~
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HURRYI ♦ DAYS ONLYI
Wednesday thru Saturday
Suspension Of Talks On
Grain Could Aid Soviets
By DON KENDALL
AP Farm Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Reagan’s deci-
sion to suspend negotia-
tions for a new long-term
grain agreement with the
Soviet Union could wind
up working to the ad-
vantage of the Soviet
government he’s trying to
punish.
Reagan’s order - In-
tended as retribution for
the imposition of martjal
law In Poland — does not
affect current sales of
wheat and com to the
Soviet Union. The Soviets
have permission buy up to
23 million tons in 1981-82.
If Reagan does not per-
mit a new grain agree?
ment before the current
one expires next Sept. 30,
one result will be the
transformation of the
Soviet Union into just
another customer of the
American farmer.
So long as Reagan slap-
ped no embargo on grain
sales, the Soviet Union
could buy as much grain
as It wanted - a good deal
considering the fact that
the current multi-year ac-
-cord puts restrictions-ow
how much grain the
Soviets can buy ^
It authorizes a max-
imum of 8 million metric
tons a year unless the
United States approves a
higher level for a specific
year, aa it did this fiscal
year, and requires the
Soviets to buy at least 6
million tons a year.
Without a new. sccqrd.
Uw situation would revert
to the pre-agreement era
of1975.
Faced with shortages in
its own crop that year,
Moscow bought such
large quantities of U.S.
grain that then-President
Ford embargoed further
aalea. A 5-year agreement
got 14.6 million tons in the
second year; 15.7 million
in the third; and were
heading for even larger
quantities the fourth year.
But on Jan. 4,1980, then-
Presldent Carter decided
to punish the Soviet Union
for its actions in
Afghanistan. The total for
1979-80 thus was held to 8.3
million tons, roughly the
level guaranteed in the
pact.
The embargo was one of
the top agricultural issues
of 1980, and Reagan cam-
paigned heartily against
It that fall.
Despite farm pressures
to act immediately after.
taking office, Reagan
didn’t get around lifting
the embargo until April.
The Soviets came back in-
to the market last sum-
mer and wound up taking
about 9.6 million tons of
wheat and corn in the fifth
year of the agreement.
Meanwhile, the Soviet
Union and the United
States agreed to extend
the current agreement
another year - until Sept.
30,1982 - so there would
be plenty of time to work
out a new agreement.
It was this time cushion
that was canceled by
Reagan.
Hazardous Substance
Regulations Revised
AUSTIN (Sp) -
Revision of the. Oil and
Hazardous Substance
Pollution Contingency
Plan has been announced
by the Texas Department
of Water Resources.
Included in the plan is
nntllnp nf nntlflraHnn
procedures necessary at
the state level for the per-
son or persons responsible
for a spill or accidental
discharge of oil or hazar-
dous substances. In addi-
tion, the plan is designed
to provide for a coor-
dinated response by the
agencies in the state
which are concerned with
protection of the environ-
ment and public health
and welfare.
The updated version
alio includes changes In
telephone numbers and
names of individuals to be
contacted in the event of a
spill. Some other changes
also have been made to
clarify actions that must
be taken in caae of a spill,
as required by state law
In scope, the plan la ef-
fective for all waters
within the territorial
limits of the State of
Texas. Those responsible
(or any spill or discharge
are not absolved or excus-
ed from complying with
applicable federal regula-
tions concerning spills of
oil, hazardous substances,
or hazardous wastes, or
from the responsibility o
reporting directly to the
EPA or U.S. Coast Guard
concerning spills.
Anti-Crime Program
To Be Discontinued
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the main elements H
the Nixon administration’s anti-crime program, the
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, will be
hablt. shut down as of April 15, says the Justice Department.
The Justice Department said that from 1969 to 1900'
.. the LEAA gave $7.7 billion to local law enforcement.
™ agencies. The LEAA grants gave local governments
*“ _— I„, wiiiinmAnt and facilities for police,
Union took about
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and corn.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 59, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1982, newspaper, January 7, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020675/m1/24/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.