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Show HEALTH ADVICE By Dr. Morris Fishbein Editor, Journal of tho Ameritea Modi-cat Modi-cat Anoeietiee This Is the fourth In a aeries in which Df. Fishbein discusses cause, effect and treatment In cases of nervous breakdown. Followers of modern psychologic psychol-ogic ideas characterise the psychasthenics, psy-chasthenics, who aremarked by an easily latigutd mind. as sufferers suf-ferers from a "compulsion neurosis,' neu-rosis,' as doubts, fears and obsessions ob-sessions trouble the mind of the patients. Consider the mental attitudes of two workers who have been called "on the carpet" for an interview in-terview in the head office. One prepares for the worst. He knocks on the door timidly, and walks in with his knees shaking. He is licked before he starts. Two foreign for-eign dictators have their audience rooms arranged so that the visitor visi-tor will have to walk a long way across the floor before he reaches the dictator's desk. Timid people are ready for the worst before the first syllable is spoken. The person with confidence In himself and in his work may feel a alight apprehension at first, in the nature of being keyed up. The moment the first word Is spoken! ' he finds he Is quite capable of taking tak-ing care of himself. Psychologists have classified neurotics in various ways. There is the neurotic who ia submissive, resigned and placid, because he finds the world too hard. He desires de-sires security, refuge, and lack of responsibility without Joss of respect. re-spect. These people sometimes develop disturbances of digestion which give them a quite uncomfortable or mild invalidism. With this, they obtain a certain amount of freedom free-dom from responsibility and struggle with the world. Sometimes these people develop different types of complaints symbolizing sym-bolizing mental difficulty, fear or frustration. Psychoanalysts say that a woman who fears constantly constant-ly that her husband may throw away all his money may, as a result, re-sult, develop serious constipation. Another type of neurotic may be driving and ostentatious because be-cause he has found that through illness he may maintain the "upper "up-per hand" in his household. A person per-son confronted with a situation that is too much for him, may solve his difficulties by retreat into chronic invalidism. Many such people have alternating periods peri-ods of depression and restlessness so that their characters may seem exceedingly unstable. Early detection and understanding understand-ing of every case of nervous Instability In-stability is important ao that proper mental hygiene may be practiced promptly. This may mean the difference between recovery re-covery and complete mental breakdown. As worries accumulate. Hours and hours of sleep may be lost, i Furthermore, people affected are i usually those beyond middle age. They do not have the powers of recuperation of younger persons. NKXT: Treatment in nervous breakdown. |