Show neurotics are numerous and make life unpleasant for the rest of the family those difficult people whom we call neurotics are getting plenty of advice nowadays but how about those long suffering ones who have to 1 live i ve with neurotics it time they received a little of the aid and comfort that is being passed around A nervous invalid can reduce a whole family to serfdom and what cant one do to the family pocketbook countless scores of men and women more often women suffer from aches and pains for which no P physician hys ician can find an organic cause they wander from one doctor to an another other looking hopefully for the miracle man who really understands my case some have heart spells or gas on the mick or throw a mysterious kind of fit when they are crossed writes raymond G fuller in in cosmopolitan magazine the handy illness flares up in a family emergency just when calmness and efficiency are especially needed when moving day comes or johnny breaks his leg or aunt emma arrives for a visit a headache or something sends the fragile one to bed while more mature members of the family have to carry on then there are the family dictators who rule by direct methods rather than by appeals to sympathy and pity they are fathers and mothers who turn their children either into weaklings wea klings or into bitter rebels against authority wives who browbeat their husbands into apologetic timid souls husbands husban ds whose wives tremble with fear at their frown neurotics are hard to get along with because they find it hard to get along with themselves because they are uncomfortable they make others uncomfortable they really grown up but get their own way by playing on other peoples sympathies or scaring them into submission just as children do whether clinging and sweet or tempestuous and domineering they are family tyrants when allowed to be and neurotics do make cowards of us all |