Show Secrets of off Health and Happiness a guess HOW Hor SOME SOl PERSONS FAKE 1 IE ILLNESS WITHOUT MEAN MEANING TO TOBY BY DR LEONARD KEENS KEENE HIRSHBERG A. A B. B M. M r. r A A. 1 M. M D. D Johns Hopkins University Just where herc truth en ends s and faking begins In those persona who think they are er very sick and are not or r who pretend thc they have a chronic illness which Is not nol present is not easy to define I Acute seeming illness is 15 often otten called hysteria It Is probably due to some ome disorders of ot the glands because It Is 18 associated with an emotional cause Some kinds of oC epilepsy are of this emotional emotional emotional emo emo- sort Hort Another example of ot temporary malingering malingering ma ma- lingering is or loss of or voice due to an emotional paralysis of oC tho the vocal cords This Is generally generall called erroneously nervousness Certain kinds of or suppressed feelings cause this These Those conditions are not nol faking The victim actually undergoes n a temporary temporary temporary tem tem- physical change chango of ot some kind traceable perhaps to the thyroid tery or 01 other glands It is not a will to do but a lack of oC I the tho will to do what Is needed to counteract counteract counteract coun coun- the symptoms an and nd overcome I the loss of physical stability The patient paI patient pa- pa pa pa- I tient Is not crooked hypocritical or Insincere but Is merely powerless to correct tho the twisted quirk into a real equilibrium or agreement between personality personality personality per per- and the world lion how To 10 DI Discipline education training knowledge and public opinion cause a alot alot alot lot of natural appetites tendencies inclinations In Inclinations In- In wishes desires and motives motive to be concealed and suppressed Their natural outlets are arc dammed with a consequent consequent consequent con con- sequent pressure of or these torrents and of ot feeling feeling- being turned turnell aside to force their way out In some other direction This discharge e then occurs when there Is some form of oC discipline or habit which prevents the emotions emotion s se seeking or ordinary expression The potential po po- energy which Is not used up accumulates accumulates ac ac- cumulates until it comp compels ls some Kind of ot unreal foolish or abnormal mani mani- Malingering therefore is not to be blamed upon Uon the patient whose wishes are arc clear clearly beyond control for tor the time being Rather Bather public opinion with Its croco crocodile lle tears and the customs laws and codes of society which cause hypocrites hypocrites hypocrites hypo hypo- crites an and concealment suppression and repression of oC feelings feelings civilization so- so called IK is justly to be blamed should out go to the malIn malingerer ma lIn lingerer and hysteric and some sort of t resentment t should be asserted ag against the made machinery-made public opinion with its lack of ot human charity A workman employed b by a public service sert ice corporation which pa pays 8 half half- wages to those Injured suffered some soma damage to a a. leg le- He Tie became spineless an and depressed an and lost Interest in most things lIe He was a member of ot several sick benefit societies and came cam in tor Under tinder er the workmen's compensation com com- acts There were no outward signs or an any others to show that he w was s injured at- at though h he ha had man many subjective introspective in symptoms symptoms-symptoms symptoms symptoms are the things told of b by the patient signs are what the doctors d al the experimental experimental mental montal psychologists can find 4 o Upon adding up his society benefits his pay half and his compensation rights it was found that this mans man's In Income Income income In- In come was actually greater when sick than when h he was at regular work Yet the man did not consciously cons feign tel He was unconsciously guided or forced b by the obvious rewards into the f tate state of ot a malingerer The overpowering overpower overpower- ing motive of ot a better reward suspended suspend- suspend cd ed d his ordinary normal norma acU for alter altered d ones just as the tire hypnotist uses similar su suggestive motives to urge the mesmerized subject to carry out the formers former's will Of or co course the instant I the motive is 18 either removed remo or 0 made to pear openly unworthy y the tho malingerer malingerer ma ma- lingerer usually usual begins Ins to mend Thereafter Thereafter There There- I after he Is amenable to ordinary treat treat- ment |