MENTAL DISEASES AND WAR STRESS
Sir,—Dr. Gray, Director-General of Mental Hospitals in New Zealand, has made some encouraging remarks about mental diseases at the present time, published by you last Friday in “The Press.’’ There is no question about people’s willingness to “take it,” to steel mind and nerve to withstand all the enemy may do. But, the dangers .of excessive haste and consequent worry, of the high pressure at which many lives are now carried on, and the diseases resulting from excitement, from dangers of invasions and the brutalities in invaded countries are well known to Dr. Gray, and the professlon. . It. is a' psychological impossibility and foolish to imagine there will be no increase of mental disorders from the mental irritation of the time. It is agreed as a psychological fact that our "insanities” are our safety valve. It is immensely important that we. remember that people must give expression to pent-up feeling and a wise understanding of the after-ef-fects of the present stress will do much to avoid future trouble and save many useful lives. —Yours, etc., M. J. BRETT. New Brighton, July 28, 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23394, 30 July 1941, Page 10
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