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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 6, 1940"

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN:

"Nerves;" Cause And

It is doubtful whether there is a nibre, common condition, especial- ly among women, than that which we call "nerves." What are nerves? The complaint has noth- ing to do with nerves at all. If you examine the nerves of a per- son with "nerves," you will find them in a perfectly good condi- tion.

Control

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to talk of them and laugh at them. It is known by the rather techni- cal name of "over-compensation.” We walk down a dark lane and are frightened-but we hum.a tune and swagger rather unneces- sarily, just to keep our courage up. What is a bully? A. bully should really be pitted as a psy-

that

Firstly, we have "real, car. from without." An ex- In the past doctors have ample of this is the fear we ex-cological wreck. He has to be a spoken about nerves tonics" and hibit when a mad dog springs at bully because he is a coward. He "nerves foods" and although we us. It is a very reasonable fear, over-compensates his own fear of have now advanced beyond that and there is nothing at all abnor inadequacy by trying to make a stage of knowledge, an impres-mal in it. Secondly, there is "real powerful man of himself and hav- sion has been left that a bottle of fear. from within." This is ing other people frightened: medicine can flow straight to our harder to understand at first Another way. of dealing with nerves and cure them. One wishes glance. It will, perhaps, be appre-fear is call regression. It explains that it were as easy as that. ciated, more readily when one itself when we remember

"Nerves," as we use the term, points out that certain diseases or re-gression is the opposite of pro- resolve themselves into a state of abnormal bodily conditions in-gression. It is, in other words, -a mind and of mental outlook. There Auence the state of health.

going back, and it is seen more have been many descriptions and

But the most important variety commonly in women, Who among definitions of the trouble; the sim- of ear. in this classification is us has not met. the young wo- plest is, perhaps, the best. "Ner

called "transferred fear." The de-man who adopts at times the ves are years, expressed or unc finition is easy of explanation if manner and speech of a child of pressed, wairly unexpressed. In one gives a moment's thought to five? All in fun, of course, and the long run, we fear things be-it. It means that the fear is not only for a few minutes, or per- cause we have a feeling that we of any actual thing, but rather of haps just a sentence, Have we not are unable to cope with them. We some vague association it contains. all met the young wife who, after: fear thunder and lightning only Take, for instance, the tiny mouse, committing some little indiscre when we fear our inability to deal When a mouse comes into a room tion, has looked up to her husband! with them. A doctor once told and runs past a woman a com-

with babyish innocence and ut- me he had a patient who for many motion is caused. Everyone knows tered five-year-old talk, shrewdly years always ran under the bed that a timid little mouse could not: calculated to assuage his ruffled when a thunder storm came. If it hurt anybody, and that it is enor- temper? The wife has regressed looked thundery when he was out mously more frightened of a hu- into childhood as a means of. es- anywhere, he would always make man being than a human being caping her fear of her husband's- some excuse to run home. The rea- could be frightened of it. The displeasure: son for this condition was traced woman acts as she acts in front. Still another way of dealing to an early fear. Similarly, we fear of a mouse, because the mouse with our fear is one that concernis all things that we cannot fully brings into her subconscious mind: the doctor very seriously. One has control. The student fears his something else of which she is heard of "hysterical paralysis." It examination, not because it is an afraid.

is rather unfortunately named, for examination, but because he fears How can we deal with our it has nothing whatever to do with his inadequacy to deal with, it "nerves" or fears? There is noth- what: the layman calls "getting We have all heard of the old ing a fear hates so much as being hysterical." It is a paralysis in lady who had a blessed word; brought out into the light of day, which the trouble has to do with "Mesopotamia," which was a very Buried deep: in, the subconscious the mind rather than the limb or present; help, In time of: trouble. mind, it can do a lot of unplea-the nerve paths leading to it: We To-day we have a similar verbal sant work, but, brought out of saw a lot of it in the war. Some charm, "inferiority-complex," that depth, looked at, examined, of the men who had suffered enor- What is an inferiority-complex and laughed at, it is helpless and mous shocks to their nervous sy but a feeling of inadequacy to deal beaten. Fears. like other evil stem and mental outlook found' with certain situations? Someone things, live best in darkness. So that they could no longer control has divided fears into three main one way of beating your fears is

Beauty Treatment

them. So they revealed conditions which were of the mind rather than the body. The conditions simulated every form of real dis- ease, such as lameness, blindness, and deafness. On.no account must this condition be confused with malingering. It is an abnormal condition of the mind. a case of

Three Queens have entrusted honey, apricot or geranium oil., "nerves," or "fears." The physical their complexions to the expert You feel the thin film tighten-infirmities appear in answer to hands. of a famous Viennese ing enlarged pores and refining the fears. beautician who is a world-wide, the skin-no pack, no tying-up; Examine your "nerves." Find authority on cosmetology. From no discomfort.

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