Show Daily Health Service By DR DIL I 1 MORRIS FISHBEIN Neurotics have ha been said to Uvel live 1 In I Ia a dismal twilight of ill health drifting drift ing from doctor to doctor or from Iron one fake ahe kind of treatment to another and finding it impossible to reedy receive freedom from their worries as to the theIr health and their illness However there is beginning to b bi be some order in the chaos and confusion confusion contusion contu- contu sion which have existed in the pas past relative to the nature of various nervous nerv ous disturbances Every neurotic case ought to b be studied carefully for the presence o of some actual physical disturbance Sometimes a hidden infection in th thc sinuses or in the lungs or an on un unde unc c. c early disturbance of the nervous nervous nerv ous system may be responsible foa fo foi foia for fora a disease which seems to lie wholly in n the mind Other physical conditions which may seem to be neurotic In their car liest stages singes are inflammations of th thc brain tuberculosis brain tumors occasionally oc oe disturbances of or digestion and the various forms of anemia There are other forms of l disturbance in which great weakness isa s a significant symptom associated with an amount of pain which ordinarily ord would be negligible but which becomes become exceedingly prominent because because be be- cause of the neurotic type o of mind I Disturbances of ot the glands of inter I nat nal al secretion particularly failure o ohe d at atthe the he adrenal glands lands to act efficiently ma may be responsible for many cases o ohis ol of this his character 0 Then there arc are cases of neurosis whIch are the result of ot wrong condIti conditions condI- condI ti ns in t the e home during childhood and nd of ot faulty education As the indi vidual grows older conditions of life change hange and it may be necessary to break reak up lifelong habits Under sue such circumstances the person who ha has seemed to be quite normal may become be be- come ome neurotic Some forms of nervous disturbances disturbance are re associated with improper adjustments adjust adjust- ments between the partners in mariage marriage mar mar- with occupations in which there ire are re undue amounts of fatigue on ny my and strain and there are also those lose forms of occupational neurosis in n which the individual develops the dea idea of oppression exploitation or persecution by those in positions of power A recent study of true neurotics lists those hose lose who show symptoms of distor distor- lion Jon on of their ordinary instincts and motions emotions These distortions are arc rc- rc re d classified into several types e e 0 There is the neurotic who is submissive sub missive resigned and placid because he ic c finds the world too hard a place to toive toive ive live in and who desires security and lack of ol responsibility without with- with out ut loss of respect Th These e invalids invalids' frequently develop eloi disturbances of digestion and of the bowels x wels which give them a a. quite com corn or mild invalidism and thereby there- there by y a certain amount of freedom from and struggle with the world orld Another type is the invalid who is riving driving and ostentatious because he heas has as found that through illness he may maintain a sort of tyranny and prece prece- lence dence ence in the household Another submissive type is the one who vho copies the th symptoms of another person whom he loves or fears These symptoms are mostly related to swallowing swallowing lowing owing and digestion Finally there is the invalid whose neurosis arises from conflicts which tie he e is unable to win He therefore solves olves his difficulties by retreat into a i safe comfortable and respectable illness |