Show e- e DAILY HEALTH SERVICE I Emotional Troubles Can Be BeI Beas 1 I I as Harmful as Physical Ills I By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia Hy- Hy I gels gela tho the Health Magazine In our public schools toda today as pointed out by Dr James L L. McCartne McCartney McCartney Mc Mc- Cartney Cartne there are about four bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred thousand children so handicapped handicapped handicapped handi handi- capped mentally that they could not possibly follow the ordinary courses of study Nevertheless wo we have ha not yet ct elaborated a system that would detect these thes cases before the they begin school s so o that both their time and I that of the teachers and other pu pupils pu- pu pus pils could be saved It Is generally recognized that there are a half halt million lion feebleminded feebleminded feebleminded feeble feeble- minded people In this country de demandIng demanding de- de manding the constant care and attention at it- of ot those whose mental states approach more nearly what Is called normal True Truel these defectives detectives constitute constitute constitute con con- a great problem but in man many ways they are not so difficult of control as those with good mental mental- y It ity but with emotional In Instability tab lih Think o of the hundreds of or thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of or people who react too strenuously strenuously to simple little situations in everyday 11 life to Think of the tho bo boy tied to his mothers mother's apron strings In youth shoved out Into a cold unfeeling unfeeling un un- un- un feeling world to make his own owna a way Again and again In great industries ho Is seen hanging like a a. parasite on the decisions of some motherly executive male or female whose pity has been aroused See Sea the woman in jn Industry who stays home homo every two or three weeks with headaches and dizzy spells because she has learned to avoid the difficulties of ot life Ufo by sick sick- ness Then there Is tho the man who comes down to work disturbed by some domestic trial that Is not known to those with whom ho works If It he heIs heIs heis is an executive e the workers under him suffer Buffer for the pettiness that he has been made to feel at al home If It It h he a Is s a a. worker far down in Lii the ranks ho plods hopelessly and with l out Inspiration at his work because he ho feels that he lie is b getting nowhere The human being as has been emphasized again and again Jn In these columns is a a. composite of ot a a mind and a body In his dally daily life lIe the reactions of his mind are far for more flora frequent and disturbing tha than tho the reactions of ot his bod body How many people have been ben taught consciously con con- to rationalize themselves out of oC their emotional conflicts And yet et in iii the great storms and stresses of life lite such rationalization Is probably Just as Important It Ie not more Important than the ability abil It ity to relieve an obstructed obstruct d intestinal Intestinal intes Intes- tract by bv a a. suitable la laxative the a or orto orto orto to c cure re a cr crop p of bolls boils by the right righta a antiseptics nt ice Hours and hours of sleep are lost lost- particularly to people be beyond ond middie middle middle mid mid- dle die age who carry great respond respond- because the they have never learned to say to themselves convincingly con con- that tomorrow I Is another da day and because they have never never studied enough of life me and of ot history his tor tory to know that the great biologic lc mechanism of ot Ufo life moves steadily onward ard in repetitious cycles j |