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Page 2B/The Battalion/Wednesday, August 31, 1983 Suffering anxiety? Talk yourself well United Press International WASHINGTON — Talking to yourself can be considered a sign something is seriously wrong. But a Minnesota psychiatrist says it’s a good way to overcome anxiety. Instead of prescribing tran quilizers, Dr. Richard O. Ander son of Minneapolis teaches pa tients who suffer anxiety attacks and phobias to talk common sense to themselves in their im aginations. “If you can get the healthy part struggling against the un healthy part, you can make progress,” he said. “There’s no pill in the world that will do the job as well as learning to talk to yourself.” The patients he teaches are those who have no medical reason for their anxieties and who do not fit the patterns of classic mental illnesses. They have severe attacks of panic, perhaps accompanied by shaking hands, rapid heartbeat or perspiration, when con fronted with certain normal situations like entering an eleva tor. Or, there may be no specific cause for their upset. In an article for the Consul tant medical magazine, he said his technique is a modification of transactional analysis, which postulated people’s personali ties have three components: pa rent, adult and child. Anderson says he teaches pa tients to listen to the adult and child. The adult is the one with the common sense; the child is responsible for the neurotic and fearful feelings. He then questions patients to pin down their ultimate fear. The pounding heart may make them fear a heart attack or death; they may fear the ner vousness will grow so severe they will crack up. If a patient fears the pound ing heart and racing pulse of an anxiety attack will cause a heart attack or death, he asks them how many anxiety attacks they’ve had and if they’ve died yet, or had a heart attack. The answer, he says, is inevitably no. He says the patients can learn to ask themselves the same ques tions or talk common sense to their “child” when the next anxi ety attack occurs. This helps them realize phobias and anx ieties are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. One patient told Anderson after he had learned to control his panic whenever he felt the old jitters coming on, he told himself, “Here comes that dumb kid again. I’m not going to let him run my life anymore.” Anderson says it takes disci pline and drive to make this technique work, and some peo ple look for an easy way out. “When an anxious patient starts shaking, the path of least resistance is to give in to that child, go to an emergency room or reach for some pills or alco hol,” he says. “If I give you some pills anc you continue taking them for 4(. years I’m going to be your worst enemy. You’ll be hooked You’re going to be this inferior person who can’t deal with ele vators, for instance. “I don’t doubt the medicine works and I have some patients on it,” he said in a telephone conversation. “But I tell my pa tients if that’s all I do, I’m doing them a disservice.” Similarly, he says, science may well prove someday that the amount of anxiety a patient suf fers is related to the patient’s biochemistry. But that’s no ex cuse for a patient to say, “This is the way I was born, I can’t help it,” and ask for a drug, he says. Anxiety attacks can happen lO anybody, he says, at any age, no matter how at ease they appear in life or how successful. “We all have that potential child in us,” he says. “Your neighbor who staggers through life and never has anxiety is ab out 20 percent of the popula tion. “But it’s called luck.” staff photo by Eric Evan Lee A natural way to go Click East, an English sophomore from College Station sells his all-natural knapsacks Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center. East is being sponsored by the Whole Foods Club. East's customer is Kawat Chantong, an animal science graduate student from Thailand. UniU'd Hi CAFE c. Two ast :hine al _ allenger [te living C( rst time in jmeday o roved trea id other a Guion ! ardner, st ee other separate •oducing ' cells fron tpituitan increas. The iclei at a proo aphoresis ge of' live hital fligl sired cell and in la n be ; irth. 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He praised the vegetables in one meal but downgraded it for low meat content, runny sauce and chewy pasta. He said the plain white rice in another “had an awful card board aftertaste, as if it had been wrapped in newsprint and left out some place overnight;” the enchiladas in a Tex-Mex dinner were “greasy invitations to a night of agony.” He liked a chicken dinner from Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine line of single-serving frozen en trees that are, in fact, one-dish meals of 300 or fewer calories. Trade sources and competing companies said Stouffer’s, of Solon, Ohio, sets standards for the industry. Early TV Dinners featured such entrees as pot roast, fried chicken or roast turkey with stuffing. They were packed in divided aluminum trays. Now, micro- wavable containers such as paperboard trays and reusable, heavy gauge plastic plates and trays are gaining ground. Familiar entrees are still popular, but so are fancy, sauced foods and inletnational and American regional special ties. 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