THE PENALTY OF WORRY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 13

THE PENALTY OF WORRY.

Medical exports, agree that worry, in its numerous' phases.' is the chief cause of insanity. '? i n'otice that in the oliicial returns of tho Commissioners in Lunacy intemperance, is credited with being responsible, for the largest number, of insane, persons," said a Harioy, Street specialist to an "Express", representative. '" Wo must bear in mind' that all tho eases . resulting from intemperance arc classed under one head, and figures amounting"- to 3338 _ placed under. it. Tho. cases .which might justifiably bo classed as 1 worry' are, on tho other hand, divided lip into sections. Put thorn all together, aiia the following is tho result Domostis • trouble 1318 " Mental' anxiety'arid, overwork ...1192 Adverso circumstances, 1025 Love affairs !..... 258 Privation and starvation .'. 202 ' , V ( 3995 , " These figures bear out in ii striking min« ner tho advice, '-.Don't .worry,'' which tha medical, faculty is'constantly enforcing upon 90 jicr cent; of-its patients, Worry, is the invoterate foe of all doctors, and the worst of it is that it is generally without cause. It is a groat 'mistako, when any troubltf arises,' to get into a flutter, wonder what/ tlio Olid will be, and reproach oneself for not performing a certain thing or other , which would have prevented it. Yet : that is what thousands do. ■ Surely, tho only, rational Bttitudc is- to look ht tho thing dispassionately—as it is, iiot as it might bo— consider how far it has gone, and then sit down qyietlv to think of some way first to arrest the danger,' and then to repair the damage. The paco at vyhich we live and tho , keenness of commercial competition are all : against this. People become excited, which leads to a frenzy of worry. They then find themselves in tho doctor's hands, or, worse still, often in tho lunatic asylum."