Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan first succeeded because he offered simple, appealing solutions to an electorate, frustrated by the problems accompanying the dramatic economic, demographic and political trends changing the nation. He is now failing because those answers were only temporary pain-killers for a structural illness. Now, some of Reagan's more popular critics are running down the same path, courting disaster by proposing alluring but irrelevant cures as simplistic as the policies they are meant to counteract...
...Crimson's three-sport standout, the pain didn't seem fair...
...over the last two years with an illness that caused severe headaches, and later, depression. A series of doctors have failed to identify the ailment, but they eventually traced it to chemical fumes he was exposed to during a summer factory job he held after sophomore year. The chronic pain never subsided until this spring, despite various treatments, and pushed Elliott into a state of clinical depression. "The pain was bad," he recalls without visible emotion, "but your mental state gets so dark that everything that had looked good is gray, and everything that had been bad is pure black...
...hard to believe that this gregarious, cheerful young man spent days on end lying in the dark, hoping for sleep "because that was the one way to escape the pain and depression." He never ceased his long-distance political work or bailed out of classes altogether. But the costs cannot be recovered--the long periods of isolation, the decision to drop plans for a senior honors thesis. "It was going to be on Jacksonian era conceptions of the American Revolution....It was something that would have been the great challenge. It became impossible." He also lost an opportunity to travel...
Only when Elliott himself suggested the combination of chemical and psychological reactions this year was progress made toward relieving his condition. "I read just about every book on pain and psychology and medicine I could get my hands on...until in this one I found that answer, what the [author] called 'biopsychogenic pain.' I diagnosed myself, and I think correctly...