The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-15
Your Health
ny WILLIAM BRADY. N. D.

There is little difference between the symptoms, functional derange- ments or ailments induced by nor bid insrospection or misguided ina gination and those due to represseo or unexpressed emotions.
 A personable woman aged 2I. happily married. with two fine children suffers from kind of stage fright from the very prospect of attending a party or social function of any kind-her stomach becomes fiutteYy, and often this leads to actual vomiting.
 Fear alone causes this young wom- ans trouble. Just what she fears perhhaps a psychiatglst or pSycho- logist could find out and show her how to overcome.
 Fear is the emotion chiefly re- sponsible for shock-Shock from in- jury, shock following an operation or just fainttng from some sudden fright or unpleasant sight or re- ceipt Of bad news.
 A question correspondents submit repeatedly has puzzled me because can't quite perceive sWihy the ques- tion occurs at all They ask me to explain the difference between men, tai fear and physical fear
 I suppose they have specific cir ,,.r,,esa,,roe sr,v svax4orarae ssa mind hrJr do not see fit to reveal these inner thoughts. Or they may wish to know whether there is a difference be- tween moral courage. such as the courage to say No when the entire gang wants to break your will or make you yield to their and the courage to stand by your convictions no matter who or how many may oppose you: and the courage ii takes, for instance. to risk your own personal safety or even your life to try to rescue from mortal danger some one you never saw before
 So far as I know there is no signi- ficant difference. Call it courage valor, bravery. fortitude, or what you will, as it seems to me it is all mental in the sense Of will, char acter. spirit.
 Anxiety and worry are expres- sions of fear, diluted fear, chronic fear-long continued fear.
 From here on I must take care ] don't meet myself head-on. For the plot thickens now. to wit:
 (a) It is instinctiVe or natural to
 fear what we don't know or
 understand. For example, the
 young child at first close view
 of locomotive, Dobbin or dog
 the ignorant contemplating an
 operation. Generally if the
 child'S parents or other teach
 CTS are not afraid of the loco
 motive. horse or dog the child
 soon learns there is nothing SC dreadful about these strange
 creatures after all. By the
 same token if the ignorant in-
 diyidual 0gnorant of modern
 medicine and surgery is en- frightened by some one who
 knows about it, he or she takef a major operation as a bless
 ing. I know. I've been there. Ob) Then there is Dutch courage
 which might as well be called
 English, American or Chinest
 courage-the reeklessness oi
 the individual under the in.
 duence of alcohol or othel
 narcotic. This, Of course. il
 not courage at all, but jus
 loss of ordinary judgment, dis
 cretion, good sense.
 Under the influence Of alsohO or any other narcotic the individual knows no better. for the moment than to do something that may en. danger others or himself-and tha' is all there is to so-ealled Dutct courage.
 So far I haven't met myself-bui wait-I wonder who this old geeze' coming down the garden path
 There is still the snake in thu grass. We hear again and again ol babies who have snakes for pets and being taught to accept thu Auakes as playmates from the frs hNese children have no fear O. snakes at all When does such { baby learn that there are harm. less snakes and venomous snakes and when does the child learn how to distinguish the one kind iron the other? Only a few adults ars intelligent enough to do so wheT they come upon a snake suddenly -they generally wish only to xii the snake whether it is harmless ol useful to man or not.
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