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How to Handle Your
(This, is the second of a special series
of articles excerpted from the new
book, "The Life Extensioii Foundation
Guide to Better Health," by Dr. Harry
Johnson. Copyright 1959 by Life Ex
tension Foundation, Inc. Ptiblished by
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood CUffs,
N. J.)
I never cease to be amazed at the end
less stream of sick men and women
who come to my office unable or un
willing to recognize that they have
been victimized by their tensions.
A typical case was that of a 31-year-old
assistant sales manager of a large
chemical company. He was a man who
had every reason in the world to be in
tiptop emotional and physical health.
Yet one day I received a near-hysterical
telephone call from him. I told him
to come right over. When he did, I saw
a man who had rapidly gained weight,
was extremely pale, and wore an ex
pression ' of painful anxiety. -
As soon as he sat down he burst into
speech: "I think it's my heart. I get
dizzy and tired and I perspire easily.
I can't focus my eyes when I read. I
feel as if the office walls are closing
in on me. Sometimes my heart races
and pounds so, I think I'm about to
faint. I've never been sick like this. I'm
worried about my heart."
It was obvious to me that this man
was in a state of nervous shock, and J
told him so. After a thorough examina- .
tion had disclosed no organic defect ex
cept a moderate elevation of his blood
pressure, which was due to his tense
state, I then went into his problems
more fully.
He had been thrust into a position of
great responsibility a lot sooner than he
had expected. He went overboard try
ing to meet that responsibility. Every
night he took work home with him and
stayed up until past midnight. He aver
aged only six hours' sleep. He let him
self go completely smoked excessively,
drank too much, neglected his recrea
tion and exercise, and ate too much.
As a crutch, I prescribed tranquiliz
ers (for one week only!). I ordered him
to get more sleep, more exercise, more
relaxation, to cut down his smoking and
drinking, and above all to learn to live
with his job.
He made a remarkable recovery, and
I'm confident I won't have to see him
16 Family Weekly, November 15, 1959
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again on account of illness that is caused
by tension.
I don't like to split hairs over words,
but there is so much nonsensical talk
these days about living and working
under emotional "stress," "strain,"
"pressure," and "tension" that we must
be more precise about what tension is.
Tension is a result, not a cause; it in
variably stems from our inability to put
up with the pressures of daily living.
Suppose, for example, there is a great
pile of work on your desk and it has to
be done the very next day. Ordinarily,
you'd need several days to get it done.
But now there isn't that much time.
You roll up your sleeves, dig into the
pile, do your very best nothing more,
nothing less.
Pressure? Certainly, there is. But it
won't harm you a bit because you ar
equal to it.
But suppose you don't just do you
best when you dig into that pile o
work? Suppose you also worry abou
it? Suppose you fume, fidget, and fuss'
Suppose you start looking for distrac
tions in diet, drinking, or smoking
Then you are not equal to your pres
sures, and if you don't get hold of your
self you may soon find you are livin
with a weird variety of functional ail
ments, real and imaginary.
As long as we live we probably sha
be under some sort of pressure all th
time. We feel it at home and in our per
sonal relationships outside the homi
We feel it most, perhaps, when we ar
on the job, whether we sit behind
desk, drive a taxi, or run a farm.