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NOWING your own type is the first step to stabilising your personality, to converting. your neurotic tendency into successful achievement and Stubb's Road happiness. First type is:-

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The Hesitater

This is the man who admits

he suffers from an inferiority complex."

Commonest symptoms are:

This

Yesterday we published fifty teat questions, your anaivers to which stone- ed whether or not you are neurotic-that is, "highly strung." article describes the six aurte of Nervoka Ben- sibility, and tells you how to adapt them an powerful factora for Buccess and happiness.

ARE

strung

The 'Up-and-Downer?

HE

the moody,

emotional-often brilll-

The Blamer. ALOOFERS sometimes

grow into another ant-person who swings regular- type-even more dangerous to ly from highest ecstasy to deep mental health. despair.

The "blamer" is touchy and In the upswing he is brilliant, grouchy. When things go peppy, zesty, optimistic, and re- wrong, he blames circumstances acts to life on top gear.

or other people: never will he

Of his type are the artists, the take a share of the blame. supersalesmen, the purveyora of He will torture, an innocent good cheer and high-pressure wife with his suspicions; pester ballyhoo, the millionaires who hla colleagues or employers with- regularly make and lose their accusations of conspiracy or millions. All of them are people naglect: demand receipts for 'with tremendous emotional everything, insist on having the horse-power.

most trivial things in writing.

Suspiciousness le the cancer of

In the downswing, melancholia and nervous breakdown are the the mind. It tends to grow; and risks he runs.

as it grows, it gnaws and eats How

should the "up-and- into the mind. downer" conduct his life?

Hongkong Telegraph, blushing, shyness, or stuttering; work or dress in a certain fixed been planned in the calm be-

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937.

RAW MATERIALS It is a step in the right direction

that the League of Nations Countil has set up an international committee to study the vexed question of access to raw materials. This has been one of the most debated mattera in the international sphere for some considerable time past, and if some means can be found of meeting the wishes of those nations who feel that they are suffering economic handicaps, a really worthwhile achievement will have been recorded. The question is usually discussed in relation with that of colonies, In some quarters, there is a popular illusion that the posses-

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excessive smoking, drinking, or way. doping: unreasonable feelings of guilt or inferiority; morning fatigue, nervous restlessness or fidgety mannerisms; phobias or unreasonable fears, i.e., of heights, closed or open spaces, germs, disense, death, etc.

BECAUSE he lacks con-

fidencé and feels in-

than women.

The "blamer" is a difficult: If he is going to harness his person to help because his tremendous energy, he must attitude to life has been acquired make a conscious adjustment to at an early age. And because The Doubter

the phase ho happens to be in at he doesn't usually want to be helped, nor does he realise the HE must do things in a any given moment.

certain fixed way, and In the upswing, be must be- need.

When he does, it is possible by spends hours haunted by the ware of overwork to exhaustion, doubt that he may have omitted of over-optimistic spur-of-the. consclous reasoning and self- part of his ritual.

moment impulses, of irrevocable study-especially at moments of failure or frustration-to modify The worrying temperament; He must touch lamp-posts, decisions and.commitments.

slowly his attitude. anxious dreams;

He should start and carry poor, in- avoid pavement-cracks, count

Use Your Neurosis sufficient, or excessive sleep; window-panes, etc.; he must through enterprises that have

your tween downswing and upswing.

UNDERSTAND

neurosis and yourself: He is over-conscientious and In the downswing, he should over-methodical to a degree that relax and indulge his most Admit, study, understand, and sometimes paralyses efficient passive hobbies, such as reading correct shortcomings that can be corrected: habits of day-dream- and music. work.

postponing decisions, The obsessional or compulsive Ile should cutlivate a friend-- ing,

unpleasant facts, neurosis is what they call it. or marry a woman-of stolider evading Intellectuals and brain-workers temperament: some one who making elaborate excuses, blam- are especially prone: men more will curb him when he is up and ing others first, shirking con-

Dr. Samuel John- encourage him when he is down, tacts with people, etc.

Accept gladly the shortcom- son was a classical example.

The "Aloofer" ings that cannot be changed: HE "wants to be alone." the shortcomings that give drive

Not because he is shy, and urge to your life.

Be proud of that urge and Frankly, the psychology of but because he prefers his own

stabilise your personality, your this neurosis is highly com- company. He is considered a bit drive and use it to round off and If he becomes hard- character, and your work. Cut plicated, technical, and not yet queer. completely understood. If it is bolled, he can be cold, ruthless, out self-pity.

At least ten. millions in this at all work-crippling, only a

He is a schizoid (pronounced country alone are in your boat. psychologist should be allowed to treat it.

shidz-old) personality..Napoleon, Profit by your neurosis. Re- Beethoven, and mind yourself constantly that Usually he is able to reveal Newton,

were schizoid the fun is not in success, but in subconscious feelings of heavy Schopenhauer

the succeeding. If you think guilt; feelings that date from "aloofers."

If the "aloofer" is submitted that is platitudinous "dope," aak unpleasant experiences in early Childhood" and have long been to great stress or strain, the riak any one who is successful.

You cannot completely cut out forgotten, but have left this of nervous breakdown is greater

than in the preceding types. He unhappines any more than you. damaging trace.

The gradual revelation and ad- should do everything he can to can completely cut out fatigue. justment of the sufferer to these acquire the social techniques and A little suffering is the best and. unpleasant memories that have graces that come naturally to only seasoning for happiness. So long as you don't get to like been repressed into the depths others.

Friendship and love-which unhappiness for. Ita own sake. of the mind offers the only

But it is no he finds so difficult-are his At the moment you are one in chance of a cure.

strongest safeguards against the five. If you can learn to tap the easy task.

If the neurosis is mild, the aloof self-absorption that leads forces that are in you, you may general advice later on in this to unbounded conceits, timidities become one in a million. At any article will help.

--and even delusions,

rate you will become happier.

ferior, he hesitates before tasks of which he is easily capable and do? leaves them undone. It is n vicious circle. Excessive anxiety disturbs his efficiency. Ineffici- ency reinforces his anxiety and makes it habitual.

And this vicious, circle is what the soul-doctor-or medical psychologist calls the anxiety

neurosis.

What should the anxiety the problem of raw materials, neurotic do? Sir Norman Angell has, how- He should face his problems ever, lucidly demonstrated that squarely: admit his

short there is no real evidence in sup-cominga: correct them where port of this contention, and a possible, compensate for them very great deal to disprove it.where not: limit his ambitions On the other hand, the problem and objectives until his con- of free access to raw materialsfidence has returned: above all, Is one which certainly demands he must make definite decisions urgent attention. This fact was and abide by them.. recognised by the League As- sembly last September, when it naked the Council to set up a committee composed of represen-

subconscious mind tatives of the Economic and takes a hand and converts worry Political Committees of the or anxiety into bodily symptoms. League, together with other How easily this may happen you qualified individuals, to go into know from the way in which the whole question. Now the fear makes perfectly normal Council has acted on the recom-people blush and stutter. mendation. In order that there

The Evader

IN this neurosis, the

functions.

WHAT should the "ob-

sessional doubter"

cruel.

:

LAUGHTER IN COURT

"Very well, replied the Judge, the Lord Chancellor intervened and shall be no blassed consideration Any doctor will tell you that DESPITE the fact that "laughter"

is sternly discouraged in Courts "I will alter the sentence to one for said, "We pronounce the word here of the issue, invitations will be at least 50 per cent of those who of Justice, there are perhaps more life."

as enough. "Then there was the Irish Judge!

"Very well, my lord," was the issued to Non-League States to consult him for physical symp genuine laughs in Courts in the join in the investigation, in toms are suffering from effects course of a year than is generally who, in his summing-up in a murder reply, and throughout the next half- henot only pronounced of chronic worry on heart, realised. Not all the "quips" and case, remarked to the jury, "Well, hour which connection the hope is ex-

evidence we should drop the sub-also such words as plough" which, pressed that the United States, digestion, and the other bodily amusing Incidents appear in the gentlemen, I think that after this "enough" with the "hard" sound, but

Press

he rendered as "pluff!" ject." Germany, Japan' and Brazil will

The epigrams and witty remarks

In a police court a woman, an old Commoncat forms be willing to take part. There

The result was extremely comical; are: of famous Judges like the inte Mr.

Justice Darling and Mr. Justice offender, was asked her age and re- and the law lords and barristers were scems at the moment some doubt nervous indigestion (by far the cardie, were always widely pub-plied, "30. You gave the same age hard put

to it to keep their faces regarding the attitude of Ger-commonest kind of indigestion);lished, but let it be whispered that when you were here five years ago." straight.

"Have you anything to say?" ask-. many, but, if she is anxious that nervous palpitation, and most not all the wisecracks" uttered by interposed the Clerk,

"Well," answered the woman with a these two popular men were 22

ed the clerk in a Police Court to a the question be thoroughly ex- nervous headaches. And to a

loss of her head, "I'm not like the woman charged with drunkenness. plored, and believes that she is large extent migraine, aathma, carat original.

Probably the most famous "quip" riff-raff wot says one thing to-day "Only this, she answered, "If I'm sent the jail, the Ballle winna hao a not at present getting a fair deal.some types of hay-fever, and of Mr. Justice Darling was the one and another go who said to

The witty

clean shirt to put on till I come sot. there would appear to be every- chronic eczema.

ho made when a witness declared thing to gain on her part by

Usually the sufferer does not that he had entered the "Elephant slow witness named Gunn, "Come, I dae his wife's washing."

Mr. Gunn, don't hang fire," and A Scots palmist was once up charg- I "A trunk call, taking an active part in the deli-associate his worries with his Ina" on his way home.

re- later, "Mr. Gunn, you can go offed with fortune-telling. "Surely, presume, berations. It is obvious that a symptoms. But if the source of marked Lord Darling. According to you are discharged, convulsed his seeing you can foresee the future you will be able to tell what my sen- mere redistribution of colonies anxiety is faced and removed, Inw gossip this was first uttered by Court.

thirty

tence on you will be?" sarcastically would not solve Germany's eco-the bodily symptoms disappear a witty Irish barrister over

years ago.

A girl applied for a paternity order, remarked the Magistrate to the nomic problems, and, were that with it.

Sir Edward Carson had a classic and the young man concerned was offender.

# duel with witness, 'faulacy realised, and some in-

"Do you being ably defended by his counsel. THE psychologist's name drink?" paked counsel. That's my In the middle of the latter ce butel dication given of a willing-

for the neurosis is business," replied the witness. Any amination the Magistrate intervened but I

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and his resemblance to the

а совс root of the trouble, fruitful re-

of the Court, agreed to be put sults of general international or shirking, or the. Victorian heard in Dublin when a youth...

young man is most striking." "But, quest when a phrenologist, at the re-

Honour,

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some of the Yankee Judges have a He should realise that his grim sense of humour. Some years but, in these days of growing

Even the House of Lords when murderers, barristers, MPs and inter-dependence, they can be ailment is one of the emotions ago, a lawyer in an American Mid-sitting as a judicial tribunal has other persons. In the Cours the partially so. It will be for the rather than of the body, and that die West Court, pleaded hard with had its laughs. There was a famous poor man declared that No. 1 "Ex- cen off an equally famous English Lard, with homicidal tendencies. The committee now appointed to It is a sort of alibi from his the Judge to reduce the sentence of Scottish advocate who scored neatly hibit was the head of an imbecile

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|abudy this and all other aspects worries. He should admit that: years which had just been of er During the bearing of | head was that of the Judge trying

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ble disease, your Honour the Ugallon was concerned with a land counsel, sald movingly, "and he is dispute. The Scots barrister several

years.

Ins "enow," an old usage. At length

There is an old Irish barrister who

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