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oneself but is not considered too healthy
T.V. 12—Class is held in the basement of
the Commons Building any time during the
mornings and afternoons. Favorite topics
for observation: Were our parents this
strange? (Happy Days), Insanity can
occur in your child. (The Gong Show), “As
The Stomach Turns” (soap operas).
Hunger 62—This course requires a small
participation fee which is collected at class
location. Course includes Breakfast Gass
at McDonald’s, Lunch Gass at Burger
King, Afternoon Snack Gass at Pizza Hut.
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Gass location may vary with personal
taste.
Beer 207—This course is offered along
with Hunger 62 but only at Pizza Hut, This
course is in great demand but many are
turned away due to age requirements.
Sex 14—For those who can handle the
extra work load, this “quickie” course can
possibly be squeezed between other major
courses. Prerequisite: Birth Control 13.
Pot 21—No explanation needed. Only
requirements: sunglasses and chewing
gum.
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How To Handle a Crisis
University Park, Pa.—Everyone en
counters crises in their lives, triggered by
common events such as adolescence,
aging, family moves, money shifts and
deaths of loved ones or by unpredictable
events like rape or drug overdose.
How well will you cope with your next
crisis? The answer depends on how much
you know about yourself, the nature of
crisis and the help services available,
according to Dr. Lois K. Waters, assistant
professor of nursing at The Pennsylvania
State University.
"Crisis can either make you or break
you,” says Dr. Waters. “A crisis is a
teachable moment, a turning point, an
opportunity to learn new, coping skills and
to come out healthier'than before. Or a
crisis can be a crushing event that makes
you less competent to cope with future
crisis.”
What spells the difference is the kind of
help you receive during a crisis, she says.
“You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to
help a person cope with a crisis,” Dr.
Waters says. “You could be a friend, a
nurse, a tamiiy member. But the more you
know about crisis and agencies that trelp
with crisis, the better.
“In a crisis, your coping ability breaks
down. Your usual problem-solving ability
does not work. This may be because of
extreme anxiety or because you perceive
the situation as an unusual threat to you. It
may be you have never encountered the
situation before and just don’t have the
repertoire of problem-solving skills to cope
with it.”
You can recognize when you are in a
crisis “because you really get to the end of
your rope and you feel very anxious,” Dr.
Waters says. “You feel within yourself
that you have become desperate and that
you need help.”
She notes that “one’s own perception of a
stress situation determines whether it is a
crisis or not. What is a crisis for one person
would not be a crisis for another.
“Sometimes by changing your attitude
toward the event itself and putting it in
proper perspective - which a
psychotherapeutic approach could do for a
person, you could say ‘well, this is pretty
disconcerting but it isn’t something that is
going to crush me’.”
For instance, a person who always felt
success in business was paramount and
yet was not successful “might tend to
learn a different way of measuring suc
cess. Success is not always measured by
monetary gain,” Dr. Waters says.
“Perhaps this individual could learn to be
happy with less or perhaps the individual
needs to learn to recognize bis own
limitations and to live happily within those
limitations.
She also advises persons of all ages that
“another way to prevent crisis is to not
invest all of your love and interest in one
person. Have a variety of friends and
interests. Don’t put all of your eggs in one
basket.
TTie persons most vulnerable to crisis
are “people who don’t have the support,
the family, the close friends, the com
munity group, the church, with which they
can validate reality,” Dr. Waters says.
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