Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear

Giddiness is of two main types. In one, objects we know to be stationary may seem to move; in the other, we may simply feel unsteady, lightheaded.

Fighting is his natural defence, the only weapon he knows, so he fights even harder. But the harder he fights, the worse he becomes. Naturally – for fighting means more tension, tension more adrenalin and further stimulation of the adrenalin-releasing nerves, and so the continuation of symptoms.

While occupied, one can, as it were, divide one’s mind into two parts, the part that suffers and a new part that accepts and floats on.

is interesting to note the direct and yet temporary effect of emotional stress on appetite.

The involuntary nervous system itself consists of two parts, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.

You recover then by facing, accepting, floating, and letting time pass. You are beginning to know this pattern by heart? I hope so, because I want you to know it so well that you make it part of yourself. I want you to understand it so thoroughly that your thoughts fly to it when in doubt or difficulty. It will never fail you, if you apply it corre

it. If asked to pinpoint the beginning of nervous breakdown, I would say that it is at the moment when a sensitized person becomes afraid of the sensations produced by severe stress and so places himself in a cycle of fear – adrenalin – fear.

Sleep is lurking in the background, even behind such tension.

Your particular pattern has probably declared itself by now, so you can be comforted by the thought that you have experienced the worst.