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8B The News, Jan. 6, 1982 Phobia clinic helps folks cope with their fears WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) Doug felt so trapped when he got into an elevator that he began ripping at his clothes. Judy's hands shook when she served food. Marleen could not drive across a bridge or shop in a crowded store.

They are phobics people whose lives are hampered by terrifying fears generated in their own minds. Now Doug, Judy and Marleen are learning to change by doing the very things they fear most. It begins at a phobia clinic like the one at the White Plains Hospital Medical Center. "I had to deliver some papers at school. I got up there and handed them to the woman and I got red.

My tongue was tied. I got these weird physical feelings," Marleen said at a recent session where participants spoke to a reporter with the understanding that their real names not be used. Her fellow phobics nodded as the woman continued: "You never know when it's going to happen." Marleen has a form of agoraphobia, commonly called "housewife's disease," but authorities say it affects men and women alike. It encompasses many fears traveling away from home, being in crowded places, being alone in an elevator, riding a train or subway. can prevent phobics from Jiving normal lives.

Doug lives in the suburbs but works in New York City. His fear of being closed in will not let him take a commuter train to work. Instead, he opts for the headaches of bumper-to- bumper driving. He is afraid of elevators, so psychiatrists at the phobia clinic sent him out with a trained aide to conquer the fear. An aide stood outside the elevator as Doug went in alone.

The doors closed and a maintenance man stopped the elevator between floors. "I pressed the 'on' button to make it work again. It didn't work. I don't remember what happened next," Doug told the group, twisting the end of his shirt in his hands. What happened is that Doug felt 'himself trapped and began removing his clothes.

He was barechested when the aide and maintenance man freed him from the elevator. Psychiatrists say that Doug is getting better by doing the thing that scares him, at first with the aide and then alone. The clinic teaches phobics that they can control (heir panic if they just let it happen and monitor the fear as it rises and falls. "You go through a couple of terrible experiences and it goes away," Dr. Frederic J.

Neuman, leader of the group, told Doug. "You say to yourself, 'If I didn't go crazy then, I Phobics are not crazy, psychiatrists say. They are afraid of fear, afraid of losing control, afraid of embarrassing themselves. They have taken a natural, healthy emolion fear and let it run their lives. Ordinary events such as entering a new store for the first time set off alarm bells of panic, sweating, rapid breathing, a feeling of impending death or collapse and dizziness, all for reasons the phobic cannot understand.

"If you imagine the most terrible thing in the world happening, a phobic person feels that in an ordinary, everyday circumstance," said Jo Ann Antonelli, an aide and former phobic who for 12 years was afraid to leave her house. Dr. Manuel D. Zane, who founded the clinic 10 years ago, said that phobias develop because of stress, usually in the early 20s as young adults confront for the first time emotional upheavals like death, sickness, graduation, childbirth, marriage or divorce. "They get into life a little l)il and start getting some of Classified Ads Get More Results the real pressures and that's when it starts to happen, when the stresses begin," Zane said.

The feelings are increased by the fact that the phobic feels alone with the fear, he said. "No one talks about it. You grow up in a society where you don't ordinarily disclose what we're feeling," Zane said. "You finally feel you can't stand it and it just bursts out in a panic." Phobics sometimes mistake the reaction for high blood pressure, heart disease or some physical illness. "All I knew was there was something wrong with my body and I didn't know what it was," said Bill, another phobic.

"AD I knew was that 1 reacted under certain conditions and the reaction couldn't be controlled." In the eight week clinics, phobics pay $480 to learn how to control the reaction and to recognize that their fears are not coming from reality but from their imaginations. A six-month follow-up on one group showed 76 percent felt they had been helped by the clinics and progressed even further afterwards. The figures were similar on a four-year follow-up. Most of those in Dr. Neuman's group showed progress by their third week.

Judy, whose hands shake when she serves guests, still has not stopped the fear or the shaking. Ruth, married and in her early 20s, said she had terrible dreams about being crushed in an elevator that shrinks like a tight box around her. Marleen was so stunned when she drove by herself across a bridge that she pulled her car off the road and sat for an hour. Like many phobics in the clinic, she keeps a diary, writing down her fears and her reactions. And like many, Marleen is finding this year, for instance, she had a different approach to the holidays.

"I have a terrible fear with the holidays coming of Christinas shopping in crowded stores," she said. "I usually have it done before Thanksgi vin'g because I can't take crowded stores." But this year, Marleen waited until the Christmas rush to do all her shopping. She smiled as she told the group her reason. 1 "I want to be like a normal person," she said. (CHOICE) BONELESS Chuck Roast Shoulder Pot.

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