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SECTION 2 - PAGE II-PIjUNDBALER-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMDERt, IMS ^Sgeneral^^™ News Fears and emotions of suicide survivors Feature choir on club program The vestry choir of First Congregational Church, Crystal Lake, will be featured on the Chicago Sunday Evening Club's weekly telecast, "An Hour of Good News," Sunday, Nov. 13, at 5 p.m. on WTTW-Channel 11. Under the direction of Eva Wedel, the choir will You Love Me" by Thomas Tallis; "Holy Is The Lord" by Andreas Hammerschmidt; the spiritual "Steal Awav," arranged by Norman Luboff. accompaniment will be provided by Bob and Tom Vos and Davin Wedel. Hie Chicago Sunday Evenii Club is an interdenomination organization of Christian laymen which produces the Hour of Good News," featuring a different internationally known speaker every Sunday at 5 p.m. on WTTW-Channel 11. It is the oldest regularly scheduled in A morino ^2 Gloi ises mode while you wolt 1 (Single vision plastic only) Over 1,000 First Quality Metal or Plastic >20 Frames K'd # SIC! Frames ^1 H Metal or Plastic 1 Visit Our Boutique 1 Designer Section • SENIOR IBI •CITIZENS rKI • • p|| ja ISP WITH PURCHASE | EE rKAMI OF LENSES By Kurt Begalka Shaw Free Press Media "When you start looking at the statistics of how many families have a suicide in them . . . it's awesome," Mike BSber, counselor with McHenry County Youth Service Bureau, said. Baber frequently deals with the survivors, and their fears and emotions. "I don't you do learn to accept it," he said. His job is to provide that confidence. Baber began the group Survivors of Suicide in the county as a means to this end. But the group does not address the deep, personal fueling a shocked wife may keep trapped inside. For that individual counseling with a professional often is required, Baber said. Baber has been a counselor and therapist with MCYSB for 1 year and holds a Community Mental Health Center for McHenry County. "These people are men­ tally stable; sensitive," Baber said, "they're just hurting and they need somewnere to turn. They're not running around with loaded guns to their head. You don't have to walk on eggshells around them." aber acknowledges he th.f reassures them symptoms they are ex­ periencing are very normal. "There's no mystery to it all," he said. Baber said the most common symptoms are: isolation; confusion of past, present and future; reoc- current dreams: mood swings; unexplainable fears; hearing voices; ritualistic ceremonies and psycho- kinetic experiences. Frequently the survivor believes he or she is in . He--belo the y« . __ _ _ bachelor's degree in "* contact with the dead. Baber psychology. He also works said they might attribute a as a crisis line worker for . picture falling or other the Family Service random occurrence as a sign (g> mumriuiuNvii 4302 W. 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Rather than embracing the attitude of "what did I do to cause this," Baber emphasizes what the person did to keep the person alive as long as ne was. "I always try to use the rest of the family members as support systems." Baber said. Tney help in dispelling a common fear that sOmehow suicide isr inherent, Baber raid, 7fr " "It becomes almost an obsession," Baber said. "I start them thinking that the individual does have choice." Based on research from the Suicide Information Center iB San Diego, Calif., Baber said there are between 100,000 to 150,000 suicides per Iear in the. United States, [any are diagnosed in­correctly, he said. According to the center, about 80 cent of all people attemi suicide do not leave notes. McHenry County is not immune from the problem. Marlene A. Lantx, chief deputy coroner for the county, reported that from December 1981 to November 1982 there were 19 confirmed suicides. .Steven were men,-- three were teenagers. So far this year, there are 14 confirmed cases - seven male. "We had no one under 21 years old," Baber said. He credited the decline to a good mental health program in the county, an upturn economy and luck. "But we're happy wi| luck," Baber said. Warning signs are un­ s u c c e s s f u l a t t e m p t s , threatening statements and "tying up of loose ends," Baber added. "Because you're dealing with such high stakes, never take any suicidal gesture or comment as anything but serious," Baber said. Itmay be true the person is attempting to manipulate you, Baber said, but he is n wine in the, ritK X Make it yours with a monogram! Just imagine the possibilities. Blouses, sweaters, sleepwear. Belts and scarves and hats, too! We've shown just a few of the ways you can make any item personally yours. 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