TOO TIRED

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 187, 16 August 1935, Page 6

TOO TIRED

PROFESSOR’S VIEWS MILDLY’ INSANE PEOPLE If you are too tired, you are fertile time being mildly insane. So Professor H. M. Johnson, of the American University, Washing, D.C., told the Virginia Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi at the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Virgina, recently. “This is no figure of speech,’’ he explained. “The tired person may show every characteristic symptom of some form of insanity, and not always in mild degree. Clumsiness, inattention, disturbance of speech, lapses of memory, headstrong persistence, momentary hallucinations, occasional delusion, wanton ruthlessness, and temper-tantrums, are common symptoms of fatigue, al- \ though they may not occur all at f once. “These symptoms may subside and recur repeatedly until the person has slept. But sleep may not restore a normal state of balance. It may first set up a new kind of abnormality, in which the person is too placid, unambitious, relaxed and disinterested to undertake any new tasks of his own volition. This condition may last a few hours to several weeks.’’ Profesor Johnson gathered evidence in support of his thesis during seven years of research on sleep at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh.