Vulgar words in Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy (Page 1)
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What makes men go to war or build tunnels or found hospitals or make love or save for a home?
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No one can imagine himself strenuously making love while he is shaken by an agony of fear, or ravenously eating while he is in a passion of rage.
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He explained that he could scarcely listen to what I was saying because his brain was so fagged that concentration was impossible.
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After I explain that there is no physical reason why the teachers of some cities are fagged out at the end of nine months while those in other cities whose session is longer can hold on for ten months, and stenographers who lead just as strenuous a life manage to exist with only a two-weeks' vacation, they begin to see that perhaps after all they have been fooling themselves by a suggestion, "setting" themselves for just so long and expecting to be done up at the end of the term.
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Knowing the effects of a few nights of enforced wakefulness, and having had a little experience with the fagged feeling after a restless night, they believe themselves only logical when they fall into a panic over the prospect of persistent insomnia.
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If people who fail to sleep are perpetually fagged out, it is not from loss of sleep, but from worry and tossing.