LIFESTYLES SCIENCE j enter 4.1967 CagthégitNews cs ‘ hy. Castlégar News October 14, 1987 HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save alot” VANCOUVER (CP) — Are you lonesome tonight? If the answer is yes, don't fret. You're not alone and it doesn't take a miraculous change to beat the often unhappy syndrome, according to the experts. “Loneliness and the resolution of it exists in all of us,” says Victoria psychologist Al Fatt. The trick to overcoming it is not letting the heart- that pushed you to lonely despair (For the member who has limited requirements for cheque writing, but gains a benefit of tiered interest rate on chequing.) Package (For members who utilize a chequing account extensively where interest on funds is a con- cern.) Golden (A great package account for age 55 and over that provides flexibility, savings and competitive interest on all-in-one.) 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Many people even see the sensation of loneliness as a body blow to the ego. They assume that someone who is lonely is a failure. Often, the result of that mistaken view is a mad dash through life, working to eseape the pain Lonely? You're not alone naturally building up through a life without human intimacy. “One of the common myths about loneliness, is that it is an unnatural state,” notes Fatt. “So it’s hard to talk about. People are afraid they will look weak if they admit Greenwald says the feeling of self-love, self-trust and intimacy with every aspect of one’s self is the most essential element to breaking out of loneliness. “Self-love is the basis of all love,” says Greenwald. “We cannot accept from others what we are not able to to loneliness and no one wants to make appear less than the other person unless they really trust that person.” The lonely mistakenly place blame on the targets for their sadness — perhaps attacking the hardened souls they work with, the death of a relative, the demise of the pet parakeet, or just plain bad luck. Unfortunately, dwelling on the unpleasantness of the past is like living in mortal fear of a lightning bolt which likely will never strike: SOLUTIONS WITHIN The solution lies within, putting bad or grossly unfair experiences in the past and not letting them twist the present hopelessly out of proportion, says Fatt. Most lonely people are guilty of not loving themselves. They dig a void filled with a hopless empty feeling which can't be filled by anyone else. In his book, Breaking Out of Loneliness, Jerry give ... We must and love unconditionally, accepting negative patterns without judgment.” , the ephemeral path to achieving self-love involves being alone, says Greenwald. “... often when we feel lonely, our reaction to the prospect of being alone is usually anxiety and often panic. While the fear of solitude is characteristic when feeling lonely, we may discover that, when circumstances force ms tos slam, we gre ecpieble of dionyrering soliveds 25's din says Fatt. Troublesome children are often stranded in bed- rooms by parents or sent to corners by teachers. The result is youngsters associating solitude with punishment as opposed to an opportunity for inner growth, an unfortunate attitude in a society where people are often alone. Brown is back as fashion color: LONDON, Ont. Brown is back. It didn’t arrive with a flourish, but sort of sidled in, preceded by khaki and earth colors of the past season that prepared the way by getting people used to these tones again. Canadian consumers tradi- tionally dislike brown, which until now had been put on the list of taboo colors. In some quarters of the fashion in- dustry, there is a feeling that the return of brown involves some risk for retailers and many breaths are being held to see if the color will be accepted. To that end, it is camou- flaged by a variety of names, many ‘of which are food oriented — nutmeg, coffee, cognac, chestnut, russet, cin- namon and chocolate. At one time, brown was brown. But technical ad- vances have pushed the boundaries of each color (cP) — range toward the infinite, so there is no longer just one brown or one green or one red. Some browns have a rose undertone for warmth, while others with a yellow tone veer toward rust. Edie Johne, for example, used rose as an undertone for camel instead of the tradi- tional yellow, not just to give her line a new look but to lend flexibility since more women can wear the warm tone. LOOK ELEGANT These browns are nothing like the tired combinations of the past. Instead, they have a freshness, especially when paired with the latest sub- dued shades for a country look or with black for a look as elegant and sophisticated a anyone could wish. For a person who wears brown well, various tones can be combined in layers. LEARNING-DISABLED Project helps students By MARLENE HABIB Press TORONTO — Susan described herself as “having a hunger which never seems to be fulfilled.” Other students with learning disabilities have been labelled Jazy, emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded. But most learning-disabled individuals are average or above average in intelligence and just haven't learned how to overcome their problems, says Harold Minden, director of the counselling centre at York University. Minden is the architect of a five-year pilot project to help York students who have difficulty learning. “Perhaps 10 per cent of the Canadian population has a learning disability, but that doesn't have to condemn them to a life of mediocrity or less,” says Minden. “These people can function as well as anybody else and there are methods to help them unlock tremendous & “The program has been a godsend,” says Sinclair, whose with perception and direction have plagued his studies since Grade 7. “T also have a bad short-term memory and didn’t get the help as early as I had wanted.” Minden says students are just now “coming out of the closet” and seeking help. They're sometimes embarrassed about their disabilities and don't know how to ask for help — from their parents or teachers. HELPS OTHERS “It is very difficult to explain to others what it's really like to be learning disabled,” says Susan, the York student quoted in a brochure on the program. “For me, (it’s) like having a hunger which never seems to be fulfilled. “Although your overall intellectual ability is intact, many functions of the brain seem to be impaired or unable to work at all. This often results in communication barriers which make it difficult to fit in socially, to explain yourself to potential. There is a wealth of ii it ty and talent among them, if only people would take the time to look.” But many learning-disabled students never get as far as university, having dropped out of the educational system in frustration. MONITORS RESULTS Minden believes York's learning-disabilities program is a first for post-secondary institutions in Canada and the United States, and says institutions in both countries have been monitoring its results. am, now in its third year, hag had such The ~ success helping students overcome what can be demoral- izing disabilities that the federal government recently inereased funding for the five years to $1.4 million from $600,000. Minden says most learning-disabled people have genetic or central nervous system disorders that affect their ability to process information. Some of the common disabilities include dyslexia (re- versing letters and numbers while reading) and the inability to differentiate between right and left or directions like north and south. Neil Sinclair, a 22-year-old phychology major, is among about 80 students receiving help from Minden and 16 tutors and counsellors during the current school year. Whitener and other students and generally just to keep pace with the academic work. “Having learning disabilities . . . (means) that we may Jearn in different ways from the ordinary student and that we may have to work a lot harder just to keep us.” Help for learning-disabled students didn't really begin until the 1960s, when programs were developed in elemen- tary schools in Canada and the United States, Minden says., Similar programs were later added in secondary schools. DOES TESTS Students fa the, York. Boner est _£0. shrough. compre- hensive di and edu- cational — to find out how ue process information. They're then assigned to counsellors who decide how to deal with their needs — recommending help such as tutors or workshops on time and stress management. “We focus on their educational needs to begin with, but also take a look at the emotional and social impact their learning disability has on their lives,” Minden says. “In some cases, their families don’t understand them, so the (coun- sellors) try to intervene and resolve the differences they have.” The worl are vital, Minden says, because learning-disabled students “usually have a history of failure and they need something to help them deal with that stress. increases EVIDENCE POINTS TO FIFTH FORCE LOS ANGELES El Physicists says they have found val evidence theories al a-fifth fu governing the workings fy! the universe, a force that slightly counteracts gravity. The oe Institute of Physics said the study — by Uni Paul Boynton — llth “the most sensitive experiment conducted to date” to determine whether a fifth force exists. The journal Physical Review Letters will publish the study. “Everybody working in the field perceives this as a major step forward,” Purdue University physicist Ephraim Fischbach said in a telephone interview from West Lafayette, Ind. “It's extremely important, although nobody wants to claim this proves the fifth force.” Last year, Fischbach published a widely reported analysis that proposed the existence of a fifth force in addition to the four forces already known to influence the behavior of matter. The four are gravity, which attracts objects to each other; el which creates light, radio waves, microwaves and other forms of Amnesia blanks out his memory By SUSAN YELLIN Canadian Press WINNIPEG — There are bits and pieces missing from Robert Betcher’s memory of the last day in July when a twin-engined plane spun out of control and crashed into his office, pinning the provincial government employee under his desk. The Beechcraft Queenair ripped a 10-metre hole in the roof of the low building, leaving its body a jumble of twisted metal. Betcher, 37, can recall the sound of the plane overhead. His next clear memory is waking up trapped in a pile of rubble. The crash itself is a blank. Betcher, who suffered a slight head injury, a broken collarbone, some chemical burns and some nerve and muscle damage to his shoulders, said people have filled in some of the holes of the plane crash for him. But in a recent interview from his temporary office in an modineins 9 area of the same building where the crash logist said he doesn't care radiation; the strong force, which binds neutrons and protons together in the nucleus of an atom; and the weak force, which makes some atoms break down in radio- active decay. COUNTERACT GRAVITY Ifa fifth force exists, it would counteract gravity 80a feather actually would hit the ground ever so slightly before a brick if wind resistance didn't slow the feather. “Our results are consistent with the existence of a fifth force,” Boynton said in a telephone interview from Seattle. “It's good evidence, but not conclusive.” In an experiment supposedly conducted 400 years ago, Galileo found that when two objects of different weights were dropped from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, both hit the ground at the same, contrary to the logical notion that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, Boynton's involved a 7.5- meter metal ring suspended horizontally at the base t a 120-metre granite cliff in the North Cascade mountains near Index, Wash. One half, or semicircle, of the ring was mide of aluminum, while the other half was made of beryllium. Although both halves of the ring had the same mass, which is what gives an object weight when it is pulled by gravity, Boynton found the two rings fell in different one toward the cliff and the other twisting away Like previous studies, Boynton's experiment sug- gests the strength of the fifth force is related to the chemical composition, or makeup, of an atom rather than its mass. While gravity keeps planets in orbit around the sun, physicists believe the fifth force counteracts gravity only over about three to 300 metres. whether Pig ever finds out exactly what happened. “If it comes up in casual discussion, that's fine,” he said. “But it's kind of past history and I don’t see that it would really be productive (for me) to pursue it,” Betcher’s not the only one who can't recollect the accident, which was called a miracle by officials since all five passengers on the aircraft as well as Betcher survived. PROBE STYMIED Canadian Aviation Safety Board officials say their investigation is in limbo because the 26-year-old pilot can't remember — and might never remember — the details leading up to the crash. Safety board representatives as well as city traffic officials say it’s not unusual for people to be unable to recollect minutes and sometimes hours of a traumatic incident, like a plane or car crash. Michael a clinical gist with the University of Manitoba, said people who have suffered head injuries after being knocked unconscious and can't readily recall the accident, most likely will never to able to remember it. “The neurological systems involved aren't able to store the information,” Stambrook said. “And hypnosis and techniques like that just aren't effective with the people who have been knocked unconscious.” Stambrook, who along with two colleagues is condueting research on head injuries at the Health Sciences Centre, said people who forget events that took place before the injury suffer from retrograde amnesia, a form of memory loss that can stretch from minutes before the accident to hours and sometimes days. Usually some of the memoriés return over time, Stambrook said. “Sometimes they can recall getting into a car, but then everything is a blank until maybe a couple of weeks after Victim forgets crash they wake up in hospital,” he said in an interview. they're better able to process and remember things that happen around them.” MEMORY REGAINING For those who have suffered a major head injury, like 84-year-old Frank Sojka, regaining the actual memory process takes 5 Sojka has been told he had a blood alcohol level over the legal limit of .06 when he was in a head-on car collision in August 1978. For years after his accident he had a hard time remembering events from one day to the next — what's known as post-traumatic amnesia. “There are a lot of things I do remember, but it makes me wonder what I may have done that was either good or bad or whatever that I can't remember,” Sojka said. “It seems like it's jut lost and it bothers me from time to time,” he said, adding he's been told he was unconscious in hospital for days after the accident. Stambrook said the inability to remember can cause different reactions in different people. Many, he said, are concerned and upset they can't recall certain events and need medical staff to assure them they're normal. “Most people value their mental and they're concerned when there's any possibility that they’re not 100 per cent,” Stambrook said. “It's very stressful sometimes when they can't and don't why they can't Men with sickle cell trait risky BOSTON (AP) — Healthy young men with the sickle cell trait face a risk up to 40 times normal of dropping dead during extreme exer- cise, a U.S. military study concludes. But the study also con- cluded the risk is still small, and experts said people with the trait should have no un- usual problems during ordi- activities. About eight per cent of black people in the United States have sickle cell trait, a condition that is rare among whites. People with the trait in- herit a defective gene for making oxygen-carrying hemoglobin, one of the main ingredients of red blood cells. They also have a normal hemoglobin gene. 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