Too Much Self-Control

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 10

Too Much Self-Control

“T A-M convinced that half the nervous troubles in the world, especially among \vomon, can be traced more or less directly to the unnecessary thwarting that goes .on in tlie lives of almost . every one of us,” writes a woman doctor to a London paper. “In the home, and during the process of earning a living, W'e are constantly being frustrated, and are compelled to exercise vast self-control in order successfully to sink our own wishes and desires. We deny ourselves self-expression. , “We ‘play up’ to each other too much, and are fpr ever holding ourselves in, until, in dpe time, nature rebels. All the. little annoyances and petty irritations which have piled up for "so long find a vent in one wild outburst of frayed nerves and hysteria. “Persons possessed of remarkably strong wills, who can hang on for a longer period, end in a nervous breakdown. “It is strange that those who love us most are often the greatest tyrants in the way of never allowing us to know best, or to go reasonably our own way. They want us to be nappy, but it must be in their way. this has a disastrous elfcct on the nervous system, and is equally injurious from a physical point of view. “It is the small, unimportant things of life which cause so much stiainiug at the leash. Too much repression and too many “Don’ts” in the. training of children are harmful Tor the same reason: , ; ,!'/■ ;