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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON MONDAY. MAY 1, 1981 Early Treatment of Mental Illness Improves Chances of Recovery Bible Conference Gets Under Way I n Medford Tonight ;The West Coast regional Bible conference of the Na tional Child Evangelism Fel lowship will get under way this evening at the First Church of the Nazarene, 520 North Holly st. Approximately ISO dele gates from seven western states are expected, according to Mrs. Nina Gain, local Child Evangelism director. The conference will begin at 7:15 o'clock. The Rev. Rle dar Kalland, Los Angeles, as sociate national director of the Child Evangelism Fellowship will be in charge. He ' will speak on ' the conference theme "Greatest in the King dom." Music will include a vocal solo by Roland Gangstee of First Baptist church and an accordion selection by Danny Hill of Berean Baptist church. Dr. Frank R. Mann, Grand Rapids, Mich., national direc tor, will be introduced. Local Ministers ', Local ministers will par ticipate in the conference. Ses sions will continue through Friday with a 1:30 p.m. ban quet scheduled at the church. Daily sessions will be held Tuesday through Friday at 9 a.m.; 12:15 p.m. luncheon in the church fellowship hall, and Tuesday' and Thursday 1:30 p.m. sessions. Wednesday afternoon a tour of Jackson ville has been scheduled. Eve nings sessions start at 7:15 pjn. daily. All sessions are open to the public. The morning schedules in clude Miss Glee Cooper, San Luis Obispo, Calif., at. 9:30 a.m. teaching visual aids, and Miss Ruth Turnwall, Pacific Palisades, Calif., managing editor of the Child Evangel ism magazine, at 10:15 a.m., v ho will teach a course on Child Study. Other morning speakers are Mrs. Shirley Wisner, Los Angeles, teaching evangelism; and Dr. Kenneth Miles, Seattle, Wash., Bible study. - - . Tuesday at 1:30 pjn. Ed ward Case, missionary of the International Child Evangel ism Fellowship to Cuba will report. It will be followed by Dr. Mann's talk on "Children: Our ' Golden Opportunity." Roy Mathison, Los Angeles, Christian Promotion and Ad vertising, will speak at 3 p.m. This schedule will be repeated Thursday except Ira Hovey, missionary to the Philippine Islands will speak. Management Session Tuesday The first annual southern Oregon management confer ence will be held tomorrow at the Rogue Valley Country club. Sponsored by the Medford Chamber of Commerce in co operation with Dr. R. W. Lindholm, dean of the Uni versity of Oregon School of Business Administration, the first session will start at 10 a.m. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. with the group joining the Rotary club for luncheon. Topics to be discussed dur- Mrs. H. A. Berntson, Jack sonville, will be in charge of the Wednesday afternoon tour of Jacksonville. ' Evening Schedule The evening program will start at 7:15 p.m. with songs directed by the Rev. E. L. Rassmussen, Oakland, Calif.; introduction of CEF state di rectors; music by local groups with Dr. Miles speaking at 8 p.m. on "Does God's Word Affect You?" - Tuesday evening the Med ford High school choir direct ed by Lynn SJolund will sing and an organ solo by Miss Lana Stiles of the Free Meth odist church will be played. Wednesday the Nazarene church will provide music and Thursday it will be by Trinity Baptist church. Following Dr. Miles' talk, films will be shown nightly. It DR. R. W. LINDHOLM Cooperates With Chamber lng the session will be "Chang ing Patterns in the Consumer Markets" by Dr. Norman Taylor; ."Business Decisions, Payoffs and Adequate Profits" by Dr. David A. Baerncopf, and "Selection or Develop ment - Management s Peren nial Dilemma" by Dr. John B. Miner. Dr. O. K. Burrell will speak on "The Flow of Gold and Its Effect on Business" at the noon luncheon. 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Bob W. O'Harra . MU 2-2361 the light i NEVEft FAILS " A I' HI '-' ' ll J Things To Know To Protect Self Against Disorder Editor'! note: Thin is the first of four dispatches in which Dr. Georca I. suvcnion, a noted psy chiatrist and president-elect of the World Federation for Mental Health discusses what the layman should know about mental illness. Dr. Stevenson, of Red Bank, N. J., is a past president of the American Psychiatric association. .. SP 2-5362 MU 9-2651 ... SP 3-4931 Br GEORGE S. STEVENSON, M.D. Consultant. National Association for Mental Health ! When we have an ulcer we feel pain. We may relieve it with a drug or a selective diet, and follow a regime of do's and don't's to encourage the healing process. With varia tions, we guard ourselves against many illnesses. Our century of medical achieve ment has taught us how to give ourselves the best pos sible chance when sickness threatens. And that includes mental sickness. . Mental and emotional dis orders are sicknesses: They are disturbances of function that can be diagnosed and treated. And the earlier many or tnem are treated, the better the chances of recovery. Things You Should Know : So there are things you should know to protect your self and your family against mental illness. But you may ask, "Why me?" and declare you aren't "ready for the booby hatch" and that your Aunt para may be "eccentric" but "not off er rocker." These are flip whistlings in the dark. Per haps because the very thought of mental disorder fills you with alarm; perhaps because you have never really dis carded the superstitions and stigmas which still cloud the subject - in spite of the un derstanding that has broken through the miasma of mis conceptions that have obscur ed mental illness throughout the centuries. The first step toward men tal health is to acknowledge that a mental disorder is noth lng that one should be asham ed of, that it can happen with' in the circle of your family and friends. If it is hard to be lieve, ask yourself if you don't know someone who has been mentally or emotionally sick enough to need care in a hos pital or clinic, or privately. And then absorb these facts: Many Hospitalised On any day in the year, there are as many people hos pitalized with mental illness as with all other diseases com bined. And half of all medi cal and surgical cases treated in hospitals or privately are primarily emotional or com plicated by emotional factors. . An emotional or mental dis order may be as mild as a head cold or as severe as a coronary. In other words, mental ill ness and mental health aren't 'black and white.' Between are every color and shade of the spectrum, gradation from the quite normal person to the mentally sick person for whom there is little hope -at present. In recent years scientists have discovered ways to treat disorders once considered hopeless, and long range re search continues to probe for the factors - the ultimate mystery of the different kinds of mental illness, the cause or causes of psychoses about which we now know little. Psychoses and neuroses are the two major groupings of mental and emotional illness. Psychoses are severe men tal illnesses. They are found in all parts of the world, prim itive or civilized; many of them are unrelated to stand ards of living, ideologies and other environmental factors. World of Unreality The psychotic la forced by the factors, partially or total ly, into a world of unreality. He often has periods of nor mality; the change from clar ity to unreality can occur within the hour. Some victims of psychosis may become ad justed and live fairly normal lives, raising families and holding Jobs. When one meets them one is aware of 'oddness' or 'strangeness' rather than derangement. ' We shall return to the psy choses when we come to the specific problems of the young, the middle-aged and the elderly.' Many more people suffer from neuroses, and fortunate ly, in certain respects, we know much more about these emotional disorders. But before we go on to ex plore them, let me settle a doubt that may be large In your mind. Every one of us behaves abnormally, unreaiis tically and even Irrationally on occasion. It doesn't mean that we are emotionally or mentally sick. None of us is immune to dis- dividual Instincts and desires collide with the taboos and traditions of socity. No social system is perfect, nor can it ever be from the viewpoint of the individual. Ideally, society can only seek to give as much freedom as possible to the greatest number and enforce sacrifices of individual liber ty necessary to avoid anarchy a-.d chaos. Neurosis Occurs With occasional transient exceptions, the normal person learns to bend to the reality of this compromise. Neuroses occur when we fail to resolve our emotional conflicts and repress them into our uncon scious. The neurotic doesn't lose touch with the real world, but he sees it out-of-focus, as he fears it to be or wishes it to be. He usually sees himself as Inferior and helpless, and oth ers as stronger and sure of themselves. There may be lit tle basis in fact for the neurot ic's feelings of self-doubt, In security, fear of being hurt. But that doesn t make these feelings less painful. Driven to overcome them whatever the nurotic does is apt to be exaggerated: He is too anxious, too afraid, too suspicious and angry; and with the swing of the pendu lum, he becomes too friendly, too trusting, too enthusiastic, too generous, brave and self-sacrificing. When he cannot bear the pain of dealing directly with his emotions, he may develop ar unconscious stratagem to side-step them. This strata gem, if continued becomes his neurotic way of life. Flights Into Fantasy The pattern may be escape: Avoiding people; taking long flights into fantasy, day dreaming, watching TV for hours; drinking; avoiding change, responsibilities of a new job or marriage. Or attack: The chip on the shoulder; sensitivity to advice; hostility sights set for any tar get - children, mate, employ er, fellow worker, neighbors and friends, Then there is the better- than-you-are pattern: Striving for distinction as a scholar or power in politics; seeking wealth to display superiority or women to prove manliness. It's normal to try to excel, but the neurotic pushes himself beyond endurance and others without mercy. And in the end this ruthless accomplish- ment means little. He remains unconvinced and looks for new way to prove himself. The egocentric pattern is easy to recognize - in others! Talking endlessly about frus trations, fears, hopes and achievements; not listening when others talk. The self centered neurotic cannot share. Friendship, if he can find it, is a one-way street. He expects to be given time, at tention, concern and money. . Of course, these neurotic patterns overlap, as do symp toms of neurosis, which we'll talk about in the next dis patch. (Next! The signs of a neurosis.) Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Corp. Harrli CONTRASTING TEMPERAMENTS ; There are, basically, two kinds of temperaments in the world: . Those who get to the air port early enough to gas, oil and wash their plane, and those who get there just as the gates are closing Those who squeeze their toothpaste from the bottom of the tube and roll it up, and those who squeeze It any which way, losing the top in the process. Those who sieep raw, un der a thin sheet, and like the windows open at night; and those who sleep in flannels, under blankets, and like the windows closed at night. Those who read their news papers neatly folded page by page, and leave them in the same condition they were found in; and those who de tach the sheets and scatter them in unholy disorder. Those who love parties, danclns. conviviality and late hours; and those who fall aDart by 9 P.m. and are at their peak waking at 6 a.m. Those who carefully item ize their checkbook stubs, balance their accounts, and know how to budget their outlay; and those who have no Idea of how many checks they wrote, charges they ran up, or money left in tne nans, if any. - Those who flourish in, out door surroundings, and whose Idea of joy is huddling damp ly in a marsh waiting for ducks; and those whose noses begin to run after a few min utes in the great outdoors. Those who enjoy the elab orate and Ingenious prepara tion of new and exotic dishes, and those who want nothing but bacon and eggs with ketchup poured all over the concoction. Those who believe that regimen of strlckness and discipline is the only way to bring up a child; and those who believe that easiness and freedom contribute more to the child's character. Those who want the house filled with company at every possible opportunity, - and those who find entertaining a painful burden and an Inva sion of privacy,, . Those whose Idea of "trav el" is dashing about from point to point, moving fre quently, and taking in all the sights; and those whose idea of travel is renting a house on a secluded beach, and ly ing on the sand. Those who look forward without fear to growing old, and those who dread it mor tally and do everything to perpetuate the Illusion of youth. These are, basically, the two kinds of temperaments in I the world - and it is the su preme irony of the human condition that almost invari ably they are married to each other. SATURN FIRES O.K. 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