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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1934, Page 4

“Tub person suffering from a nervous breakdown lias not succeeded jii, lccoiiciiing himself wiui ins environment, that is to say, with things as they a*e around him, w: 1 ., .let it lie quite clearly understood, only a small percentage of nervous cases are due to overwork. Most people seem to think that is what they are all due to,” Writes Mr J. Monaghan Oh ahum, M.A. (Psychologist;, in Health for All. ‘‘ln neurasthenia and nervous breakdown the people concerned have found the stress or modern civilisation too great. They have not kept pace with it. They have fallen out in the race, and that I shells disaster. It must not l>s thought that w© are all either destined to succeed in reconciling ourselves with our environment or else to fail in the process. The majority of peop.e vacillate between success and failure The rncst successful are those who are known as “extroverts,’ active people who, rather than think morbidly about their failures, 'take the bull' by the horns’ and accomplish things. Those who are least successful iai‘3 the confirmed ‘intro- | verts,’ introspective people of more | sedentary habits who a e inclined to sib down and lick the wounds received •in’-life’s battle. As I said, tlie majority of people arc a mixture of both of these types. If the’/proffer’ balance be maintained life wil'Pbe awfeasaiit affair. Failure to preserVe' it 'will mean " an increasing tendency toward intro- pettion-, in which condition people dfe'arn away their time and drift out of touch 'wifcja realities. Obvlipfusly nve must keep a grip of things. We ought [ not to regard re possibilities <as something to be shuffled off. our shoulders on to those of our neightbour. Danton, famous leader in the French Revolution once said: ‘L’.audace, l’audace* et toujours I’audacei’ ‘Courage’ rather than' ‘boldness’ is the better translation. ‘Courage, courage, and always ■courage!’. ‘Man know thyself!’ These ar the words over the gates of the Greek temple at Delphi. , It is the. duty of each one to know himself. ly, his , .powers . and.jdiis, ; ,weaknesse,s

With that knowledge yon can enterconfidcntjy, .into life’s,. maelstrom a,nd find your ..particular niche. Not only that, j you can so ordain things that your inent.nl health "ill equal that of your body.” ;