Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear
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Dr. Weekes Claire. Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear
SELF-HELP
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Epigraph
Contents
CHAPTER 1 The Power Within You
CHAPTER 2 How Our Nervous System Works
THE VOLUNTARY NERVOUS SYSTEM
THE INVOLUNTARY NERVOUS SYSTEM
The pattern of fear
CHAPTER 3 What is Nervous Illness?
The Breaking Point
Two Types of Breakdown
CHAPTER 4 The Simpler Form of Nervous Illness
The Beginnings: Palpitations
Fear – Adrenalin – Fear Cycle
Tension Through Fear
Panic
Fighting
Sedation
Collapse
The Constant Pattern of Fear
Afraid to Admit Fear
The Single Pattern
CHAPTER 5 How to Cure the Simpler Form of Nervous Illness
CHAPTER 6 Cure of the More Constant Symptoms
CHURNING STOMACH
True Acceptance
SWEATING, TREMBLING HANDS
Hyperthyroidism
RACING HEART OR HEART ‘SHAKES’
SORE HEAD
Once More, True Acceptance
The Limited Power of Adrenalin-releasing Nerves
‘Floating’
Masterly Inactivity
Loosen Your Attitude
CHAPTER 7 Cure of Recurring Nervous Attacks
PANIC SPASMS
Other Ways to Conquer Fear
Continuous Sedation
PALPITATIONS
SLOWLY BEATING HEART
‘MISSED’ HEARTBEATS
TREMBLING TURNS
INABILITY TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH
‘LUMP IN THE THROAT’
GIDDINESS
NAUSEA AND VOMITING
LOSING WEIGHT: KEEP OFF THOSE SCALES
No Permanent Damage
NO NEW SYMPTOMS CAN ARISE
CHAPTER 8 Being Yourself Again
Keep Occupied
Quick Recovery
Gradual Recovery
Never Completely Overwhelmed Again
The Pattern of Recovery
CHAPTER 9 Nervous Illness Complicated by Problem, Sorrow, Guilt or Disgrace
PROBLEM
Exaggerated Reaction to Stress
Exhaustion
Playing the Record
The Groove
Loss of Confidence
Tricks of Vision
Noise
The Exhausted Family
Depression
Agitation
Obsession
Shock Treatment
CHAPTER 10 How to Cure Nervous Illness Complicated by Problem, Sorrow, Guilt or Disgrace
CHAPTER 11 Problem
It May not Depend Entirely on You
Accept the New Point of View
The Iron Band
Old Fears Return
Glimpsing the New Point of View
Stick to the New Point of View
The Insoluble Problem
True Organic Sickness
Change of Scene
CHAPTER 12 Sorrow
Brooding
The Suffering Habit
Avoid Unnecessary Suffering
Desertion
Bear No Grudge
CHAPTER 13 Guilt and Disgrace. GUILT
Guilty Thoughts
Guilty Action
Guilt that Cannot be Confessed and Forgiven
Another Chance
DISGRACE
CHAPTER 14 Obsession
The First Type of Obsession
The Second Type of Obsession
The Third Type of Obsession
CHAPTER 15 Sleeplessness
How to Relax
Head noises
Listen
The Jigsaw Puzzle
Children
Other Strange Hurdles
CHAPTER 16 That Dreaded Morning Feeling
Rise When You Wake
Have Company
Early-Morning Sedative
A Change of View
CHAPTER 17 Depression
Occupation
Small, Happy Daily Experience
The Lonely Peace of Solitude
Respite May Highlight Suffering
Living Alone
Depression is You, Not the World
CHAPTER 18 Loss of Confidence
A New Feeling Is Born
Ups and Downs
CHAPTER 19 Difficulty in Contacting Other People
Normal Emotions Frozen
Imagined Strangeness in the Behaviour of Others
Too Much Contact
Talking About You
CHAPTER 20 Difficulty in Returning Home
Facing Again What Made You Ill
CHAPTER 21 Apprehension. The Shadow of the Shadow
CHAPTER 22 Three Good Friends: Occupation, Courage, Religion
OCCUPATION
Middle-aged Housewife
Organized Occupation
COURAGE
RELIGION
CHAPTER 23 Do’s and Don’ts
CHAPTER 24 For Those Who Fear Further Nervous Illness
Let the First Shock Pass
CHAPTER 25 Advice to the Family
Sympathy
Occupation
Molehills That Can Be Mountains
‘Fight It!’ ‘Pull Yourself Together!’
CHAPTER 26 What Kind of Person Suffers from Nervous Illness?
Moderation
About the Author
About the Publisher
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