Show self pity undermines health poisons the soul and destroys our happiness to learn the lessons that life would teach to profit by them to be made finer as a personality to be made perfect by suffering that is what it is to turn life into an experience of genuine value writes wintred winfred rhoades in forum self pity breaks down the mind poisons the soul undermines the health of the body prevents rightful relations with other people and destroys the happiness both of the individual who permits it to take hold of him and of those who have to live with him there is perhaps no more disintegrating emotion to tc be found in the whole roster many a case that cornet corne to a doctor in the guise of physical physical physic ai breakdown is primarily little more than a surrender of the spirit in cases in which some specific malady is actually present it can be the altitude of the spirit that keeps the malady dominant and makes it worse that is why there is a mental aspect of medicine and why it is being increasingly recognized and included in the treatment of sickness it seems a bit surprising that it j has taken the medical profession so long to realize that when a man is sick the whole man needs treatment not merely his stomach or his circulatory system need attention I 1 but also the part of him that thinks and feels and wills that desires i and schemes and makes efforts that feels disappointment and resentment and humiliation men and women are something more than physical and chemical organisms needing to be toned up or put in repair they are even more than harassed strugglers struggle rs needing help in the finding of jobs or the composition composition of family difficulties they may need medicine but certainly they need insight and vision |