Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-20
REAL WAY TO STOP WORRYING.
Insulted Stomachs are the Cause Of
Remorse and Abnormal Anxiety,
Says this Physician.

advice you hear on all sides. And
that is just what you want to do. try
to do, but simply cannot. The more
you try the more those worrying.
harassing thoughts and ideas pile over
your mind. It's so easy to say, stop
worrying!" What you want to know is
how to stop worrying. I am going to
try to help you.
Do not confuse useless and killing
worry with anxiety. Anxiety is nor
NAL part of woman's life. Worry is a
symptom of some physiologic disturb
ance which reacts upon the brain cells.
For instance. the boy leaves his
mother and home for the first time. He
is starting to take hold of his career.
Anxiety as to his comfort, his success
or failure, is natural. But If that mo-
Their worries continually about his be-
ing cold, i'll, starved, meeting rough
men and evil women, If she sees in ey-
erything she sees OF hears something
happening to her boy, she is approach
ing Il state of unnaturalness-a state
of danger to her health. Such wo-
man does not see life as it is-every-
thing is distorted, 1t is all worry-to
her.
Soon this unnatural worry is affect
ing her husband and friends. The wo-
man reads of railroad wrecks, and i'm
mediately writes or telegraphs her son
to stop travelling Often, to have peace
at home, the father goes to the son
in order to calm the worried mother.
OF course, there are hundreds of va
rying forms of rain-tearing worry,
ali ha frnn nd fn
four causes, and when these causes are
known this useless worry may be
avoided.
To continue with this mothers con-
dition. Her natural anxiety merged
into unnatural worry. This soon
brings about self-fear or selfworry
She hears or reads of some woman
about her age who died of cancer. Then
she hunts for some sore or tender spot.
In this state of mind she can always
find one A slight neuralgia pain is
to her the commencing of cancer pain
She loses appetite and sleep her whole
body is affected and she literally wor-
ries herself into a serious illness.
This. in outline, is about the history
of the majority of the nervous
wrecks" we doctors have to see-and
do what we can for them.
To advise a person suffering from
this really serious loss of self-control
by saying, stop worryingl" is cruel
and unscentific
The condition of the brain cells de-
ponds upon the condition of the blood
flowing through the brain. Now, this
blood is affected by the secretions OF
IN, fhn
are the kidneys, the adrenal glands,
the pancreas. the thyroid, and others.
When one of these glands is secret
ing too much or not enough of cheml-
cal elements some disturbance takes
place In the quality of the blood. The
brain cells become irritated and then
worry is added to normal anxiety.
The kind of worry that takes hold
Of the individual depends upon the
form of normal anxieties. For exam
pie, man is anxious about his invest
ments or about his position. If, how
ever, his physiologic system is all
right, he controls this anxiety. does
his best and looks at the matter phil
osephically Let him. however, indulge
in a few days of dissipation, and wor-
ry takes place of controlled anxiety.
Then he becomes reckless, more wor-
ry follows, and unless properly treat
ed the end soon comes.
This happens because the dissipation
has caused a disturbance of some OF
the secreting glands and the brain
blood is poisoned. Remorse IS, under
ordinary circumstances. only symp-
tom of a clogged liver. singing
conscience is frequently only the KICK
back of an insulted stomach-and
warning not to repeat the insult.
When one commences to worry over
matters that are realized as being real
" unimportant ii means some COM
mencing disturbance of the seeretlng
glands Try TO find the cause. Have
YOU deprived your body of rest? Have
YOU been eating and drinking too much
either soda water or alcohol? Have
YOU ceased exercising? Have you for
gotten to give your brain rest, or have
Won culled it by too much sleep? Have
YOU danced long or late or been breath
ing the hot. poisonous air of crowded
rooms or halls? Have you in any way
disturbed the physiologic rhythm OF
your body?
Remember you are law unto your
self iii details. Every one has in his or
her body some weak spot which must
be considered. This you must find out
for yourself.
Any work, sport, study or amuse-
ment which leaves you trembling, anx-
ious or brain-muddled is the thing
which you must avoid or continue with
care.
A man who speculates and who has
to resort to stimulants to keep himself
AS he thinks they do-from over
worrying, should change his vocation
The nervous strain affects some Sc
cretory gland and brain nagging fol-
lows The daily Dutch courage" in
creases this state of affairs. This is
the cause of recklessness, insanity
suicide.
On the other hand. there are men SO
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