OVERWORK BLAMED

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1933, Page 6

OVERWORK BLAMED

THAT -'BELOW PAR” FEELING

LONDON, March 2.

The “Daily Mail,I’’ 1 ’’ commenting on the reference of the prime Monster (Mr MacDonald), to himself as suffering from an ..“invisible lack of health,” says that this exactly describes a state of mind and body that is baffling many sufferers. ..• .

There js something approaching ■ a “wave” of this complaint throughout

the country,

Scores of leaders in every department of life are feeling “below par,” with the result that the waiting-rooms of Harley Street physicians are crowded with patients seeking an explanation and a cure.

A psycho-therapist says that the complaint is due to th e stress and strain of crisis, politicians, industrialists and bankers ore obliged to increase their expenditure'.of energy, leading to a nervous collapse.

• The state of the patient, includes a curiously dull condition of th e brain, .producing absent-mindedtift-is and the use of wrong words, which, affect his work. Moreover, it is the first sign -of. an approaching breakdown. A Harley Street •physician says that the disease is noticeable everywhere. Thei’e a r e hundreds of tired and listless people in tilie streets, with pallid faces, dull eyes and listless gait, suggesting thi

at .even a inns cm out cannot » e enjoyed. much lose; work’, which, when well done, should bring ,a sense of elation and achievement. - - ■

Th & cause is partly inadequate diet, tut Js chiefly attributable to tjie lack of sunshine during the winter. The best r«m«dv, •he saya, is artificial. sunlight.