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o Doctors Warned To Go Easy on "Happiness Pills1 for Depressed AcSf vwf By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (W It takes an expert to recognize a depressed ppron and even experts run the risk of confus ing a depress ed person with an anxious one. This strik ing insight in to people was contained i n the newest warning to family doctors Delos Smith to go easy on giving "happy pills" to the de pres2d. Dr. Frank J. Ayd Jr., well known psychiatric specialist of Baltimore, said the "happy pills" (and he included the whole fam ily of tranquilizing drugs) were "depressants" of the sympathet ic nervous system and were dan gerous vH?n given to depressed persons. A depressed person already is suffering from under-reactivity of the sympathetic system, he said, and so "to superimpose a drug which(S a sympathetic de itfessant only aggravates the ex isting emotional depression and increases the risk of suicide." (ijLitt the Symptoms Yet family doctors continue to prescribe them for people who shouldn't have them, he said. Ayd assumed these qogtors ei ther were confusing Ihe tran quillizing drugs with the family or stimulating drugs, or didn't recognize depression when they saw it. If it were the latter, it was un derstandable, he said. Depres sions are hard to recognize in othe people although they are "among the most common ill nesses" the general medical man sees. One reason is that the de pressed person has at least one Bet of engaging physical symp toms when he goes to a doctor and will, the chances are, try to hide his depression. Nevertheless "everything about his appearance and behav ior suggests otherwise," Ayd said (f "Current Medical Di gest." "He may-orce himself to talk, not to crypto smile, to ap pear cheerful, yet he walks slowly, reacts sluggishly and ap pears dull and lacking in vital ity. During an interview it is evident that his thinking Is re tarded as well." Anxious persons also go to doctors with sets of physical symptoms which will also prove unjustified when investigation turns up no bodily causes for them. These anxious persons can be helped by "happy pills" whereas the depressed are harm ed. So the two must be told apart. Must Study Moods Look at moods, Ayd said. In one the mood is primarily de pressed, and anxiety is second ary. In the other, anxiety is out standing and depression is sec ondary. The deprsed usually are reluctant to talk about their symptoms but the anxious are eager to talk about them. The depressed person will be critical of himself and blame himself but the anxious person will think he's an all right Joe and blame other people. The depressed person has lost his interests and no matter what is happening, he pays very little attention to what goes on around him. But the anxious person usu ally hangs onto his interests and he responds to what happens around him. The depressed per son feels worse in the morning: the anxious person, in the evening. The depressed person can be helped by proper treatment, Ayd said, but he is not going to be helped if he is told: "There is nothing really wrong with you. Get a hold on yourself. Stop worrying. Get a hobby. Go out more. You have to cure your self." "Such platitudes," Ayd con tinued, "are a grave injustice to the patient and an admission to medical ignorance. It causes rel atives to pressure the patient to attempt to do things which he is unable to do. This increases his feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness." HORNBROOK Halloween Carnival Held By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook The Halloween carnival Oct. 31 at the Grange hall sponsored and presented by the Parents club of the local grammar school brought out one of the largest crowds of the year in this community. In the costume parade, prizes for the most original went to Frankie and Jeanie Cardoza; for the prettiest to Barbara Burcell; and for the funniest to Terry Cobb. Al Kutsky won the live turkey, and Bertha Bradley the ham. Pat Williams was voted queen of the seventh and eighth grade room, and Steve McMaster had the most votes for king. The Parents club, through their president, Mrs. Frank Car doza, expressed appreciation to residents in making the carnival a success. The proceeds will be used to purchase equipment for the new wing which is being added to the school. A Halloween party was given Tuesday afternoon in the social room of the Community Metho dist church for the smaller chil dren who have been attending Sunday school regularly. Assist ing In the games and refresh ments were Mrs. Carl Williams, Mrs. Harley Baker, Mrs. Robert Farmer, Mrs. Harry Chapman, and Miss Shirley Moffett. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bear and John and Mike Brunk attended a farewell party in Yreka Satur day evening in honor of Father Patrick McTague of St. Joseph's Catholic church, who is being transferred to St. Joseph's Par ish in North Sacramento. He will be succeeded in Yreka by the Rev. Thomas Boland of Colfax, Calif. Downtown Trade Competition Higher Chicago m The motorist trade that downtown stores have lost to the suburban shopping centers cannot be won back, Mabel Walker, executive direc tor of the Tax Institute, wrote in Public Management, magazine of the International City Man agers' Association. Regional centers are growing rapidly, Miss Walker wrote, and competition for the remaining downtown trade has increased. Regional branches of downtown stores are often more profitable than the parent stores, she added. Miss Walker predicted that urban redevelopment, although having some importance, will not bring suburbanites back into town except from time to time. City stores can remain pros perous, she said, by serving those who remain in the city, but the appeal must be to the pedestrian, not the motorist. on her heel about two weeks ago at a Sacramento hospital. She expects to have the cast removed from her foot in two weeks. Wednesday, NoYStnber 6 1937 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEJf Max Howard is in Siskiyou County General hospital in Yre ka where he was taken last Wednesday. He suffered a severe cut on the upper part of his thigh when a saw he was operat ing at the local mill slipped and struck him. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walsh and daughter, Sharee, attended the wedding at the First Baptist church in Yreka Sunday of Miss Charlotte Hufford and Robert Houdeshell. Miss Walsh, a class mate at Yreka High and a friend of the bride, served at the wed ding reception. Mrs. Duane Hamner returned to her home here last weekend from the Ashland hospital where she underwent surgery earlier in the week. Also returning home last Sat urday was Miss Hellen Whitten who had skin-grafting surgery Preliminary work was done last weekend toward preparing the inside of the Grange hall for a coat of paint. A series of card parties will be given to increase the building repair fund, accord ing to Mrs. Tom Collister, who is chairman of the building com mittee. The first of these parties will be given on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. at the Grange hall Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ohlund re turned home Sunday evening from a visit in Portland with their son and his family. The vis it became an extended one when both of them contracted influenza. The Hornbrook Water com pany began work last weekend on installation of 2,400 feet of new pipe line. The work is ex pected to be completed next weekend. 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