Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
THAT "TIRED FEELING" IS
JUST "NERVES," IS CLAIM
BY MARGUERITE M. MARSHALL,

copyright, 1921.)
NEW YORK.-"Have you got that
tired feeling which at this time OF
year specialization vacation is so
near and yet so far-makes most OF
us hate our jobs, our families, our
lives?
Then cheer up, stop worrying and
get an enthusiasm-fo the anti-pro-
hib1tion parade, for the clothes you
will take away on your vacation, Tor
something or anything that will keep
you from thinking about your sensa-
tions or fatigue. Before you know
it, the sensations will be gone, and
you can got off on your holiday
ready to have a good time and not
merely to rest.
That is the invigorating message
of DR.. Josephine A. jackson, whose
new book, "Outwitting Our Nerves,
written in collaboration. with Helen
NJ. Salisbury, is likely to prove
boon to many readers of this nerve
racked generation. DR.. Jackson
frankly a believer IN the theory and
practice of the new science Of. psy-
cho-anaIysis, takes middle ground be-
tween those irritat!ngly superior
persons who shoe off nervous suffer-
ers with the obvious remark thar
their troubles are JUST nerves.
as if they didn't know it!-and those
other practitioners who coddle the
nervous woman until she Is convinced
that her misbelieving nervous system
is the most thrilling and interesting
thing in life and that normandy Is
q state to be scorned.
DR.. Jackson says, in effect, that
nervous troubles cause plenty OF gen
uine suffering, even il there IS no
"organic disorder" yet that the way
but to forget them and redirect one
energies toward other things. For
example, take what is perhaps the
most widespread of nervous kinks,
that tired feeling
"Fatigue," the doctor points out,
"Is a safety device Of nature to keep
US within safe limits, but it is a de-
vice toward which we must not be-
come too sensitive. AS rule, 1t
makes US stop long before the danger
point is reached. If we fail into the
habit of watching its first signals,
that they monopolize attention. At
tention increases any sensation, es-
pecially if colored by fear.
HE who learns to take his fatigue
philosophica1ly, as natural ana
harmless phenomenon, which Will
soon disappear if ignored, is likely to
find himself possessed Of exceptional
strength. We can stand almost any
amount of work, provided we do not
multiply it by worry. We can even
stand a good deal Of real anxiety
provided it is not turned in on our
selves and directed toWlrd our own
health.
ct IS a healthful sign that the rest
cure is fast going out of style.
Wherever it has helped a nervous
pattent, the real curative agent has
been the personality of the doctor
and the patients faith in him. Peo-
pie suffering from nervous exhauS-
ton are likely to be just as. tired
after a month in bed as they were
before Why not? Physical fatigue
is quickly remedied, and what can
rest DO after that? What possible
effect can rest have on the fatigue
of a discouraged instinct?
Since the best releaser Of energy
is enthusiasm, don't try to get that
by lying around in bed or playing
checkers at a health resort.
IF you are chronically and perpet-
ually fatigued, or if YOU tire more
easily than the other people you
know, consult q competent physician
and let him look you over. If he
tells you that you have neither tu-
berculosis, heart trouble, Bright's
disease, nor any other demonstrab
disease, that you are physically fit
and merely nervous give yourself
a good shake and commit the follow
ing paragraph TO memory" pre-