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Show CHARACTER IN THE INSANE. A Deeply Interests Study, ThongJi at Times Attended With Sadness. If it is deeply interesting to Etr.dy character among the insane, it is also at times both saddening and humiliating. We often lock with indulgence upon what we call harmless vanity or a natural nat-ural love of admiration iu a rat her frivolous friv-olous girl, but look at the same girl when by some accident or misfortune . the mental balance is overthrown. Now the believes and does not hesitate to say that she is perfectly beautiful, has im exquisite figure, is in everyway charming charm-ing and attractive and that every man who sees her immediately falls violently in love with her. It is only an absurdly exaggerated sense of self importanco that produces the veiy common delusion delu-sion that the patient is a king or a queen, even a deity. Again a natural humility and a tendency tend-ency to self depreciation are frequently frequent-ly exaggerated by disease into the delusion de-lusion that the patient is an object of dislike and contempt to every one, that he has committed seme crime, and that consequently he is beyond redemption and is regarded with horrcr by all around him. If he is of a religious turn of mind, he believes himself to be eternally eter-nally lost and sinks into a state of chronic chron-ic melancholy and apathy. On the other hand, a natural self reliance, no longer controlled by common sense, expands into a belief that the patient has done and can do feats beyond the power cf any mortal man. Hospital. |