Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-20
IF YOU FEEL BLUE
BY H. Addington Bruce
on confess to respondent state of
Y mind that is becoming almost chron-

Y on confess to respondent state OF
Y mind that is becoming almost chron-
ic. You insist that you have every
reason to feel blue-business cares, family
anxieties, miscellaneous worries.
But dependency will never help you to
deal with these effectively. 1t will only tend
to multiply your problems and your perplex-
tiles by clouding your judgment fatiguing
you, and otherwise lowering your working
power Besides, if you entirely honest
with yourself, you may actually find that
you have more reason to feel optimistic than
pessimistic. Have you ever tried the Du-
bois system of day-by-day determination?
1t is very simple, and it was invented for
the benefit of persons tormented, precisely
like you, by gloomy trends and dire fore
bodings.
Every evening, the last thing before going
to bed, make tabulation of the days occur
rences with reference to their effect upon
yourself. In one column set down the hap
penings that have troubled you, in another
the happenings that have been in any way
to your advantage.
You are pretty sure to find the latter
outnumbering the former. Especially will
you find this the case if you apply to the
troubous happenings the test, ''Was l really
justified in feeling troubled by this?''
1t may further be of great help to you to
supplement this moral self examination by a
physical examination made by some good doc
tor.
Often it happens that persistent despond-
ency has it's origin in an unsupported bodily
defect, or in an unhygienic living habit that
lowers the physical tone By kind of re-
flex action the moral tone is then unfavora-
bly, affected.
Some people, for example, feel blue be-
cause, without approaching it, they are poi
soning themselves through a faulty diet
Others feel blue because they do not eat
enough to be nourished properly.
Failure to exercise regularly is another
common cause of dependency AS a result
of non-exercise there is both poisoning of
the system and an unhealthy slowing of the
circulation of the blood.
This causes disagreeable sensations and
nervous weakness that may readily have de-
spondency it's chief symptom. Things in
general seem in bad way because the one
to whom they so seem is physically not in the
best of ways
There may be nervous weakness due to
wrong methods of doing ones work, with
resulting overfatigue, or nervous weakness
due to failure to work at all. Idlers are
VIGOROUSLY addicted to the blues.
AS is not surprising. For today it is known
that idleness has a singular capacity to dis
turb the whole bodily organism, particularly
the circulation of the blood and the action
of the nervous system.
Or the victim of chronic gloom may, all
unawares, be suffering from eyestrain, dental
disease, foot trouble, or other seemingly triv
ial Embellishments. With these corrected
the attitude to life may Immediately and
incredibly be changed.
Therefore, study yourself morally and let
a doctor study you physically if you habitu-
ally suffer from the blues. You need not thus
suffer and you should not thus suffer.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)