《Hope And Help For Your Nerves》读书笔记

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“The nervous illness was caused by no more than fear of the very feelings that fear itself had aroused, and as such is the commonest and most straightforward form of nervous illness we know. If yours is this type of illness, it is a step toward cure to see your various symptoms as part of a single pattern coming from a single cause, fear. These symptoms are not peculiar to you, but are all known to many like you.”

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“By your anxiety you are producing the very feelings you dislike so much.”
“This ‘thing,’ which seemed so terrible while you stayed tense and flinched from it, may fail to hold your attention for long when you see it for what it is —— no more than a strange physical feeling of no great medical significance, and causing no real harm.”
“Do not try to cure it by controlling it, and as you are prepared to accept it and work with it present, you will gradually become more interested in other things and will gradually forget to notice whether it is there or not.This is the way to recover.”