Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-04
Nervous nrenkdown

I OHS VI tue ever l0CI6foiho Nc'NN'N'
of disability among the people Of
United States is nervous breakdown,
which seems to attack both men ana
! women. Few Of it's victims can
clearly explain their trouble few OF
them can ever give definite date
for it's onset Many of these I'M
portant victims would gladly exchange
their trouble for most any other
disease, would rather have pneumonia,
typhoid fever 0l any disease which
has definite time to run and from
which one RECEIVERS fully or dies.
Death, they consider, would be a re-
llief.
What has caused this increase
with this trouble Are we all sub
ject to it or can we avoid it?
If the general class of people hav-
ing nervous breakdown are carefully
studied they are usually found to be
| an interesting group, consisting Of
two types of people, the first type
is the over-anXious, eager, progress
sive fellow who loves to shoulder
responsibilities, who keeps adding
them on, until his load is too great
for the short "a hours of the day, he,
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to make every moment count, does
business at the lunch hour, eats and
talks business at the same time If
asked one hour after lunch what lie
ate would not have the slightest
| idea, but would remember only the
business deal he took care of while
eating. He never thinks about his
physical self a moment, but uses it
only as a means to accomplish some
thing else. He hates to ever give UP
| the time to sleep, it seems such
dreadful waste to him. He prides
himself upon being looked upon as
| the up and coming business man of
the world, one of the leaders, one
of the fellows who can put things
over.
Almost invariable egotism grows
in a case of this kind until he feels
he must hold all the responsibilities,
he dares not shift any over on other
shoulders, he refuses to even train
men to fill his place. When he gets
to this stage, he is at his peak and
soon starts down. Habit had put
firm claims on him, he can't throw
them off, he has always been lone
fighter and can't do team work, it
irritates him. His irritation along with
a few other minor irritatons soon
begn to show on hm, of course he
fights and insists upon keeping up
the same pace but he finds he can't
sleep as well as, before, can't eat as
weA and his old body does not seem
to be functioning 100 per cent like
it did before.
nervous indigestion becomes more
pronounced but still he feels it is
only temporary affair and does not
require any material change in his
way of doing business, so he fights
on according to, his personal ideas.
This method allows the condition to
grow worse and when it has reached
the stage where he finds he can no
longer concentrate on his business,
can not think quickly and accurately,
has failed to remember a few inn
portant facts, he becomes frightened.
He now can see only ruin ahead IF
him, has lost his courage he was
so proud of, feels he would like to
dodge the most important issues, so
he gives up his work, accepts the
diagnosis of a nervous breakdown
and tries to recover that once won
derful nerve of steel.
This he finds takes months ana
iss just as hard battle as his bat
ties for success in business.
This is an illustration of nervous
breakdown without some organic or
functional disturbance preceding it.
There are many diseases and many
conditions which prey upon the nerv-
Gus system and give all this symp-
toms of nervous breakdown, which
which ought not be diagnosed as
such and from which recovery is
possible by having proper treatment
for these conditions.
The illustration used showed how
men acquire it, but practically the
same method is followed by women,
they become so enthusiastic over
their club work, their church work
and society activities that they strive
to do more than any one human
should do and are found in this
same condition as a result.
The other group may be less am