The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-10

with such medicines as are pre- scribed for indigestion, kidney trouble. bad liver, colitis. The de- pression-shock victim-in other words, the psycho-neurotic or neur- asthenic patient-actually may have such disorders. They are not imaginary. But in the majority of cases such ailments are functional, rather than organic. They have been caused by nerves-and only by treatment of the nervous system can they be cured. By the hundreds of thousands, patients whose ail- ments are of such origin move as chronic invalids, hopeless, from doctor to doctor, for years. When their money is gone, their health completely broken, and their jobs gone, these people fill our free clinics. Of the millions being treated for physical disease in tho United states today fully sixty per cent should be treated for psycho- neurosis.
 Psyche. analysis Wrecks
 "Since medical education and training in the physiology of tho brain and nervous system Is so in- complete and intellectual, mental healers' gain great following. while attempting to do the impossible in defiance of the laws of science or common -sense; and faith healers. charlatans and ouacks prosper. All because the medical profession has failed. Little wonder that scores, perhaps hundreds of thousands, turned to Freud's followers, the psych o-analysts. The racket which has grown up under the name of psycho-analysis has plunged more patients into deeper misery, has lnuddled and confused more minds and has been of real help to fewer people, than any other racket yet inaugurated in the medical world. Patients already too conscious Of self, and of inner unrest, and who are unsure and bewildered, arc forced to dig up buried memories of utterly no significance in rela- ton to their present condition. The psycho-analyst adds wreckage to wreckage. building higher the ob.. stancles between his patients and normal. unselfconscious health They are offered clap-trap inter- pretation of dream symbols, and Q sex Interpretation of all nervous ailments. In twenty-five years l have never seen a case of psycho- ncurosis caused by sex.
 Here are helpful rules or sug- gestions for those whose depres- sion shock has progressed no fur ther than deep fatigue: CD. Re- member that your 'symptoms'---the various sensations which have frightened you-started as warn- ings. If not needed, serious con- seauences may follow. CD Stop fearing your feelings. (3) Rest.
 But some. having permitted a keyed-up strain to grip them, can- not win sleep. For these: (4) Stay in a bath of about 100 per cent Fahrenheit for about an hour, with n cold compress on your head, That brings the blood-supply into the capillaries surrending the cells and nourishes them. This will rest you, and you will sleep well.
 "'But get up tireder than when went to bed,' many will declare. or these: (5) Stay in bed. Get more rest. You are on the mend, but far from fully rested.
 "If your fatigue has been so deep that you have had the symptoms indicated in this article, then you cannot cure it with single dose of rest. Therefore: (6) Seek more recreation, more social companion ship. CD But avoid excesses. Re- member that you are literally, physiologically, tired all over.' (S Try a hobby, or an avocation--or take up some new line of interest"