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Show 'Letting off Steam' Held Good for Person's Nerves MILWAUKEE, WIS. Doctors are just about agreed that it is good for the average individual to "blow his top" every now and then for by so doing he lets off emotional steam which does him no good if kept tightly bottled up. Doctors, according to many reports, re-ports, are much concerned with tensionits ten-sionits causes, results and relief. Psychiatrists offices are filled with people who have been driven to illness ill-ness by the problems and challenges chal-lenges of modern living. "How can ordinary men and women wom-en who do not need psychiatrists, wno oniy occasional find themselves them-selves in a state of nerves' regain their serenity?" one writer asks. Doctors advise them to learn to blow their tops. They do not advocate advo-cate a complete and continual lack of self-control. Instead they believe there is a time and place for such healing outbursts. "On the debit side of the ledger." she continues, "are the examples concerning the wrong time. There are the people who have 'told off the boss' and lost good jobs in the process. There are the ones who sassed the cop who arrested them for speeding and wound up in jail. "Modern mental hospitals have installed punching bagj and other equipment for violent exercise for their patients' use. Science now knows that discharging tension through bodily activity is good mental men-tal hygiene. |