The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-04
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with curious AIT The brain, too finely wrought
Fre,s on herAeli, aud Is Destroyed by thought,
The failure Of brain and mental power,
or demen!ia, ia often canRod by exceRsive
meu.a! strain, This is not the only cause,
for there ia the dementis Of old aye, the
dem ,ntia following diasasea Of the brain,
the dementia depending on extreme ply
steal exhaustion or some sickness, and
80 on.
Tao dementis of Overwcrk Ia most
closely connected with the kind Of 'lRbor
that i, attended with caro- and anxiety, and
that leads to great worry, Oae Of our
most common exaGReratioua is the e1'
preston "worried 10 DEATH" There can
bs no doubt, however that many man
ia worried to mental death by work that
Is accompanied by deficient rest by ab'
sorptIon of thought on QUE topic, by too
great enthusiasm, by cvermuCh speculS'
tim, or by surroundings that themselves
w1rry and distract
The nlgps Of dementia from overWork
ara very aimilar in al casea, There Ia q
col;clouaneas Of lack OF tho accustomed
yigor al mind and body. This is followed
by restlessncls and craving for more
work. TAero is disturbed sleep, and Of
tan voluntary twitching Of tho musclCa GA
lying down. 'fhtso feelings may be
knosn only to The msn himself ior
months, but after awhile, II the cAusei
co ltinue, his friends look on him as d
mn too full Of anxietIes, and sometimes
they Joke him on HE absent mindedness'
Ho torgets engagements, and his jaded
miad plays him many trick.
Hat thig stage the much needed rest be
taken, will an absolute retirement for a
time from all tho sources Of tho trouble,
there are good chances iorR complete
recovery. But II the oyerWorks continue
without q break in it's endless require
ment', thon moro alarming symptoms in
terveue. Instead Of resllesaResg there 10
sleeplessness, Lapsas oil memory occur
in place Of tho ahGont.mindedncRs. The
victim ia doubtful Of his own work, and
leaves cut wordH or entire sentences from
his letters. Ho finds trouble in wording
telegram that he could formerly have
cent without an eIort IiO becomes dis'
trus!iul not only Of his friends, associates
In business, and his clerks, but even Of
himself, and well be may, for occasionally
he finds himself contemplating suicide,
while he shrinks in terror from the
thought,
Among tho terme oiteneu, employed in
connection with all forms Of insanity are
three that arc generally used rs having
the same meaning. But there is q dis.
tinction to be made between these terms,
hallucination, illusion and delusion. Hal.
lucinalion is ialse perception Of an or
gan Of sense for which there is no extel-
nal cause or origin: Gs when a man in
total darknees thinks he reeG an object, or
when ho hears sound in absolute hi'
lence. illusion ia q mistaken perception,
as when n person sees or hears some
thing and takes it 10 he something else,
Delusion is such q strong belief in either
Of these Impressions that tho person can.
not DO persuaded Of lis fAlsity,
A man who saes rat running
across tho room when there is nothing
has On ballucination, Ifho Bces ball
rolling on the floor and thinks it 10 arNt,
he has M illusion. II he cannot be
persuaded that the hallucination or illus.
ion is merely atreak o!isncy, he has de-
luslon.
Tho commoneg. course Of thesa cases Of
brain failure from overwork Is toward the
worst end. This end can be seen in any
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