Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1985 pages 1322 Standin wife latest wrinkle in personal elderly suffer in literary researcher doctors use treatment for patients in depression by Dave Haynes watching his friends launch promising professional careers threw University washout Manley Waldman into a bout of depression so severe he didst bother getting out of bed some antidepressant drugs didst bring him so in when he was 23 years Waldman had a psychiatrist run an electric cur rent through his those Electr convulsive Shock treatments brought him out of the but Waldman says his memory and personality have never been quite the my brain is says in quite Dull be i would say i was an average to above average i would say in probably below average in stacks of surveys living at Home with his parents and bouncing from Job to Waldman is angry about what the treatment did to he now actively campaigns to have it bit most backed by stacks of surveys and say act is an essential therapy that produces Only temporary such As memory none of us like the idea of an electric current being passed through our says John head of psychiatric services for the but by and it is a relatively Safe and effective the continuing development of powerful arid specific antidepressant medications has considerably lessened the need for act in the provinces hospitals and psychiatric treatment but it is still extensively particularly with the most severe Werner chief of Grace hospitals psychiatric uses act to treat five or six patients a the health sciences Centre and Misericordia Hospital do Simi Lar no specific numbers Are available for the extent of its use across the the treatment was introduced in the after doctors noticed schizophrenics who also suffered from epilepsy showed behavioural improvements after psychiatrists started experimenting with inducing first by in Sulin and then by electric patients were strapped Down so the induced convulsions would not Frac Ture possibly a patient died from respiratory the procedure was there were reports of act being used to control and punish Resi dents of some mental health institutions and such Hollywood films As one flew Over the cuckoos nest and Frances have Only served to reinforce those but for the last two the procedure has been overhauled and modified to make it far less Trau Matic for they Are put to sleep for the treatment and Given a muscle blocking drug that prevents actual working with team that includes an a doctor fits padded electrodes Over the temples and delivers a 150volt Shock for a period usually no longer than one the patient then awaking to mild euphoria and a typical effect is the temporary loss of some recent although there have been some cases of much longer memory deeply depressed such losses Are extremely difficult to but in the last doctors have tried to re Duce this by giving unilateral passing the current Only through the nondominant Hemi sphere of the doctors Arent sure Why act but one common suspicion is that the electrically induced Sei Zure alters the chemical balance of the it is Best used with severely with drawn schizophrenics and the deeply people who Haven responded to treatment by we consider Shock treatment says Hun and i would consider it a mistake if it were not Given in certain verge of suicide Hunzinger and Toews have seen countless patients with depressions so severe they were starving to or on the verge of some Are in such bad shape they cannot authorize the act treat so psychiatrists often seek the consent of with the backing of a second Hun Zinger says there is still a wide spread misconception that doctors give Shock treatments without any using the results of most recently from Britain Royal col lege of physicians and Hunzinger says the treatment has an 86 per cent Success they go from being totally out of to being Normal they go Back to their some of them Are Bill Manitoba director for the Canadian mental health says he knows a psychiatrist who treated a personal bout with depression with the says now controls any recurring bouts with a adds Martin i Haven talked to any individuals whole said thank god i got Shock but i have talked to family Mem Bers who said thank god that one family member got but he has also met several for Mer act patients who described their experiences of 20 and 30 years ago As i have talked to people who have said they would sooner die than have it a group of former act patients has formed a coalition against Shock treatment in prompting the prov inces health minister to ask for a study on the but in Mani the fight has been limited to a few vocal people such As Wald he recently walked the River Heights area and enlisted several pages of signatures supporting a Stop to the use of the he has written letters to to health officials such As and to and magazines around the but for the most he has been who now Sells Maga Zine is driven by his own and by what he has read in magazines and medical physicians and psychologists have written articles suggest ing act causes Lon term brain affecting memory and the ability to one doctor said the sight of a brain after an act series was very Waldman firmly believes his brain has been similarly he functions in the but not he figures whatever wit and dynamism he had is and his memory is now so bad he cant learn a new but his situation goes against the Grain of the balance of Shock treat ment research and at Waldman and other disgruntled former act patients appear to be exceptions to the Toews admits the medical Community would Welcome medi cation or some form of treatment that didst have the Martin says he tends to look at act in the same Light As other medical such As the nitroglycerine tablets used by heart it May or May not be Good for but it saves your by Rita Rubin Dallas morning news Dallas lonely depressed Call a Start a not Only might you feel better emotionally right but new studies show you also might feel better physically in the Long most people accept the idea that stress increases their chances of getting although until recently that bit of conventional Wisdom lacked the support of scientific the new studies show that the stress of bottling up feelings about a Trau Matic event might hinder the body ability to fight disease even More than the event the general idea Here is that when a person inhibits his behaviour or Doest talk about something that important to that act of inhibiting is physically said James a Beha vioral psychologist at Southern methodist University who has published several studies about the relationship Between confiding and in the Long it appears to be associated with increased Dis ease striking effect Pennebaker has found that the effect of inhibiting feelings is especially striking in people who under went traumatic sexual experiences before they were people Likely to be punished if they talked about their As a Penne Baker there More prone to reporting every kind of disease imaginable kidney one of the most traumatic events in anyone life is the death of a Pennebaker and graduate student Robin Oheeron studied peo ple whose spouses had died a year they found that the More that you talked about the the less you obsessed about your spouse and the healthier you Penne Baker confession Doest always require a willing listener to be he and graduate student Sandra Beall found that Sim ply writing about problems appears to reduce the stress linked to health Pennebaker and Beall asked undergraduate students to write an essay for 15 minutes on each of four consecutive one group assigned to write about trivial sub members of another group were asked to write about Only the facts involved in one or More Trau Matic experiences in their a third group was told to write about Only the emotions involved in a Trau Matic while a fourth group was asked to write about both the emotions and fewer doctor visits Pennebaker and Beall found that students who had written about their emotions or the emotions and facts had fewer doctor visits after the Experiment than some Stu dents found the writing exercise so helpful that they began keeping a Pennebaker students who wrote Only about trivial matters or the facts of a traumatic experience showed no change in doctor writing about traumatic experiences enables people to give mean ing to events and emotions they May have been trying not to think Pennebaker prayer is another example of confiding can be beneficial even without direct feed he two Ohio state University re searchers Are studying the biochemical changes that take place in the body when people have no one with whom they can Beha vioral psychologist Janice Kiecolt Glaser and her microbiologist Ronald have conducted a number of studies of the relation ship Between loneliness and stress and the body ability to fight Dis in one they found that medi Cal students who scored highest on a psychological test for loneliness had a White blood cell count 30 per cent lower than their in another Kiecolt Glaser and Glaser compared blood samples from depressed psychiatric patients and red Cross blood they found that the Dan in the blood donors samples was better Able repair the damage from radiation than the psychiatric Dan is the genetic material in Dan repair is thought to be important in the body defence against Kiecolt Glaser if its not it always has the potential of developing into a mutant in a third Kiecolt Glaser and Glaser compared blood samples from 45 residents of a Retiree com on third of the residents received training in relaxation tech another third received visits from College students three times a the remaining patients made no changes in their after the Experiment blood samples from the group that Learned relaxation techniques showed an in crease in disease fighting White blood cells called natural killer supporting the theory that stress reduces the body ability to fight As blood samples from the residents who made no changes in their lives showed no killer cells Kiecolt Glaser she and Glaser were surprised to find no change in killer cells in blood from the residents who received visits from College the re searchers had assumed that the visits would decrease the residents improving their ability to fight Kiecolt Glaser the residents probably we rent lonely to begin they already had Strong social she although confiding apparently is some problems May be better left Pennebaker if you write it talk about it and some Way youre Able to resolve then it is beneficial to talk about it 20 years there Are some events that Are untre for Pennebaker a study of concentration Camp survivors found that the Healthiest were those who were Able to put their experiences behind people should be selective in whom they confide As Well As what they Pennebaker its really important whom you talk Pennebaker some times its Good to talk to your sometimes its not if it would Ever be used against you in a Subtle like a spouse thinking youre sitting with hands behind your head could be signal of trouble with heart Ottawa up sitting Back with your hands clasped behind your head could simply be a comfortable Way to then says Henry Landry of it could be a sign that your heart is having Trou ble getting All the oxygen it Landry has been watching the position for most of his career and was Quick to adopt a colleagues Sugges Tion nearly 30 years ago that he Call it Landry the first suspicion of a link be tween the sign and heart disease came when Landry was a Young medical student at the University of he walked into a Ward of heart attack patients and found them All stretched out and relaxing with their hands behind their i am of the opinion that All patients with a recent coronary relax spontaneously with their hands be Hind their he writes in a recent Issue of the medical Landry also believes the sign is a Good indication that the amount of oxygen being delivered to the heart muscle is less than Ideal and that the patient could develop heart prob lems in the Landry sign Over the years and we Haven always carried Electrocardiography in our Black bags a patient who relaxed by displaying Landry sign in full color meant to me that i had a heart Case on my i acted Landry says the vast majority of these patients had heart the rest of them had a heart Condi Tion known As angina Rectoris and were having trouble getting full re Lief from the nitroglycerine tablets they took to relieve the i Landry article suggests that sit Ting with the hands behind the head improves the hydraulics of the heart and its major when people sit in that it allows their hearts to work More efficiently and they feel serious blockages or spasms in the coronary arteries Are the main cause of heart the heart muscle is deprived of the blood and oxygen it needs to work Landry says theres no need for doctors to Rush out and order a Complex series of tests if their patients display Landry yet in patients who frequently relax with their hands behind thai Heads spontaneously and Union it might be a Good idea to pursue the Issue further or simply Tell them to no longer relax with their hands behind their Heads if they can from the news services new York president Reagan told people Magazine he always wanted to play an Errol Flynn Type of role and then went on to say he once foiled a i was under contract there Warner for 13 years and they had me in the comedy Type pictures simply be cause if you Are in one that makes youre typecast from then he said in an they were successful but i wanted to do some More out door pictures 1 wanted to play the Errol Flynn Type of Reagan went on to say he once foiled an armed robbery outside the Des Rooming House where he lived in the Reagan said he was in his second floor apartment and heard a woman outside take everything Ive got but let me and to Ace a Man pointing a at Ive always had some guns and i started for one on the mantel and then realized that i didst have any knowing that he see into the dark where i i drop it and get going or in going to blow your head Ive got a up he turned around and pointed the gun up and realized that he see Rae in the i drop it and All of a sudden he dropped the suitcase and took off and Reagan painting sets record new York a bidder paid saturday for the girl in a red by 19thcen Tury artist Phillips More than doubling the record auction Price for an american Folk paint the Dorothy an 88yearold widow who lives on Cape bought the painting for than 50 years Laine reported stable san Frankie whose hit songs sold More than 4r million was in stable after undergoing a quadruple bypass opera a Hospital spokesman said Laine entered mercy hos Pital in san Diego on wednesday complaining of Chest pains and underwent the operation Pioneer dead Paris jazz drummer Kenny Klook who broke with traditional rhythms and became a Pio Neer of bebop in the Early died of a heart attack at his Home outside members said he was or made More than 300 playe both with Avant Garde jazz like thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker and the More traditional Louis Armstrong and saxophonist Denny actor gives new York actor Paul new Man has donated to a fund for the needy from the proceeds of his food products which Spaghetti salad dress ing and his partner the donation is tiie largest corporate gift Ever received by the new Yort Timon neediest cases which is conducting its 73rd annual Appeal this the newspaper re ported China allows contest peking a monthlong Beauty and Talent contest for Young men and women is under Way in the Southern City of sponsored by local news Media and the communist youth i he event represents a turnaround in policy from years past when Young people were urged not to Wear Western fashions or grow Long Scorsese hums along Rome director Martin scor whose Gritty films have often explored mans alienation in the modern May be taking a giant step Back in history to direct a 19thcentury director of taxi Driver and raging is expected to be named the Surprise director of Giu Seppe Verdis opera to be staged at an italian cultural festival this the newspaper 11 ales More ;