Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear
Essential guide for everything you need to know to keep relaxed through every day lifeThe ebook edition of the phenomenally successful guide to dealing with nervous illness – Self Help for Your Nerves. This guide offers the most comprehensive insight and advice into coping with nervous stress.Sufferers of nervous illness regard Self Help for Your Nerves as their bible – many believe that if they had found it earlier they would have been saved years of unnecessary suffering.Dr Claire Weekes looks at:How the Nervous System WorksWhat is Nervous IllnessCommon factors in the development of nervous illnessRecurring Nervous AttacksPlus important chapters on depression, sorrow, guilt and disgrace, obsessions, sleeplessness, confidence, loneliness and agoraphobia.The book also shows the Dr Claire Weekes method, a practical programme on learning to take your place among people without fear.
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DR CLAIRE WEEKES
SELF-HELP
for your
NERVES
Learn to relax and enjoy life againby overcoming stress and fear
Thorsons
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Original edition published by Angus & Robertson Publishers
First published in the UK 1962 Published by Thorsons 1995
Copyright © Claire Weekes Publications 1977
Hazel Claire Weekes asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007385713 Version: 2017-03-31
Many of those who suffer from nervousness are persons of fine sensibilities, of delicate regard for honour, endowed with a feeling of duty and obligation. Their nerves have tricked them, misled them.
W. R. Houston
Contents
2 How Our Nervous System Works
4 The Simpler Form of Nervous Illness
5 How to Cure the Simpler Form of Nervous Illness
6 Cure of the More Constant Symptoms
7 Cure of Recurring Nervous Attacks
9 Nervous Illness Complicated by Problem, Sorrow, Guilt or Disgrace
10 How to Cure Nervous Illness Complicated by Problem, Sorrow, Guilt or Disgrace
16 That Dreaded Morning Feeling
19 Difficulty in Contacting Other People
20 Difficulty in Returning Home
22 Three Good Friends: Occupation, Courage, Religion
24 For Those Who Fear Further Nervous Illness
If you are reading this book because you are having a nervous breakdown or because your nerves are ‘in a bad way’, you are the very person for whom it has been written and I shall therefore talk directly to you as if you were sitting beside me.
I shall show clearly and simply, and yet with all necessary detail, just how a nervous breakdown begins and develops and how it can be cured. THE ADVICE GIVEN HERE WILL DEFINITELY CURE YOU, IF YOU FOLLOW IT. This will take perseverance and some courage. You may notice that I have not asked for patience. A nervously sick person is rarely patient, because sick nerves are usually agitated nerves – that is one reason why he becomes bewildered by them. To wait patiently in a queue can be almost intolerable misery for such a person. However there is a substitute for patience and this I shall present to you later.
It will not be difficult for you to read this book: it is about you and your nerves, and for this reason you will read it with interest, whereas to read an ordinary book or newspaper may seem an impossibility, or, should you succeed, may leave you more distressed than when you began.
I used the word ‘cure’ and this may surprise you, because it implies an illness and you may think of yourself as more bewildered than ill – lost in a maze trying to find your way back to the person you used to be.
On the other hand, you may be so depressed and exhausted that you may readily agree that you are ill. Whether or not you consider yourself ill, more than anything else you want to be yourself again. You probably look at others in the street and wonder why you can’t be like them? What is this ‘terrible thing’ that has happened to you? What is the meaning of these terrifying feelings?
Such feelings may have possessed you for a long time, even for years. Indeed, you may have reached a point of such desperate suffering that you could be thinking of suicide, or may even have attempted it. And yet, however deeply involved you may be in nervous breakdown, it is possible to recover and enjoy life again. I emphasize, however deeply involved.
The guidance you need is in this small book. The perseverance and courage you can, with help, find within yourself. The strength to recover is within you, once you are shown the way. I assure you of this.
Each of us has unsuspected power to accomplish what we demand of ourselves, if we care to search for it. You are no exception. You can find it if you make up your mind to, however great a coward you may think yourself at this moment. I have no illusions about you: I am not writing this book for the rare brave people, but for you, probably a sick, suffering, ordinary human being with no more courage than the rest of us, but – and this is the important thing –
