Outwitting Our Nerves

Whenever the subject of nerves is mentioned most people begin trying to prove an alibi. The man who is nervous and knows that he is nervous realizes that he needs help but the man who has as yet felt no lack of stability in himself is quite likely to be impatient with that whole class of people who are liable to nervous breakdown. It is therefore well to remind ourselves at once that the line between the so-called normal and the nervous is an exceedingly fine one. Nervous invalids and well people are indistinguishable both in theory and in practice [1] and after all we are most of us more or less neurasthenic. [2] The fact is that everybody is a possible neurotic.