Chapter 6 overcoming anxiety

One night long ago, a neighbor rang my doorbell and told my family to vaccinate against smallpox.My neighbor is one of thousands of volunteers throughout New York City who ring doorbells.About 2,000 doctors and nurses worked day and night to vaccinate everyone.Vaccination stations were set up not only in all hospitals, but also in fire brigades, police stations and large factories.Why is it so lively?Turns out 8 people in New York City got smallpox—2 of them died—2 out of a population of 8 million. I've lived in New York for thirty-seven years and yet no one has ever rung my doorbell to warn me of a mental depression--a disease that has done more damage in the past thirty-seven years than I'm afraid. Smallpox must be at least 10,000 times larger.

No one ever rings the doorbell to tell me that 1 out of 10 people living in the world today is facing a nervous breakdown, mainly due to worry and emotional conflict. Now, by writing this chapter, I am ringing your doorbell to warn you.A few days ago, I met Dr. West Isley Bornan, a well-known medical expert in Philadelphia.On the wall of his waiting room hung a large wooden sign with his advice to patients: What is the problem that causes people to have ideological pressure?All diseases are related to each other, they are relatives, even close relatives - because they are all caused by worry.

Actress Manle O'Brien told me that no matter what, she would never worry, because worry would destroy her most precious capital on the screen-beauty.She told me: "When I first entered the film industry, I was worried and scared. At that time, I had no acquaintances in London. I contacted several producers, but none of them would use me. The only thing I have My savings were running out. For two weeks, I lived on biscuits and water. I asked myself: 'Maybe you are a fool, you will never succeed, you have no experience, no acting. Except for one Pretty face, what else do you have?"

"When I looked in the mirror, I suddenly realized the effect of worry on my appearance. I saw the fine lines of worry starting to form on my face, I saw my anxious expression, and I said to myself, 'You must immediately Stop worrying. The only thing you can offer an audience is your looks, and worrying will ruin it.'” Indeed, nothing ages women faster and destroys their looks more than worry.Worry can make us clench our teeth and make our faces look dull; it can make our hair gray and even fall out; It will virtually destroy the most beautiful face. A few years ago, while on vacation, Dr. Gober and I drove through Texas and New Mexico.Dr. Goble was then the chief medical officer of the Santa Fe Railroad, and his official title was attending physician at the Gulf-Colorado-Santa Fe United Hospital.When we were talking about the effect of worry on people, he said: "70% of the people who come to the doctor will get better if they can remove their fear and worry. Because they are living on their own. sick." "They're sick like you have a tooth decay, sometimes a hundred times worse. It's like nervous dyspepsia, certain stomach ulcers, heart disease, insomnia, headaches, and Certain kinds of paralysis, etc., are equally severe."

Dr. Guo Boer said: "The above diseases are all real. I am not talking nonsense, because I have suffered from stomach ulcers for 12 years. In fact, these diseases could have been avoided. Fear makes you worry, and worry makes you worry. It tenses up and affects the nerves in your stomach, making the gastric juices in your stomach abnormal. So, you get gastric ulcers." "Stomach ulcer symptoms usually flare up or go away depending on how emotionally stressful you are," said Dr. His theory was confirmed after studying the case records of more than 10,000 patients with stomach problems in Mayow Clinic.Studies have found that 4 out of every 5 people have stomach problems that are not due to physiological reasons.Instead, fear, worry, resentment, extreme selfishness, and an inability to adjust to reality are the root causes of their stomach bugs and stomach ulcers—and stomach ulcers can kill you.

Dr. Joseph Montan once wrote a book "Nervous Stomach Trouble", which also explained the same truth.He said: "Stomach ulcers are sometimes caused not by what you eat, but by your sorrow." The Mayor brothers claimed that more than half of the beds in the hospital were occupied by people with neurological diseases.But even when their nerves were examined with the most subtle microscopes and the most modern methods, most of them were found to be perfectly healthy.Their "nervous disease" is not because of any abnormality in the nerve itself, but because they express anxiety, frustration, pessimism, irritability, fear, anxiety, depression, etc. emotionally.Plato once said: "The biggest mistake doctors make is that they only treat the body of the patient, but not their mind. But the spirit and the body are one and cannot be treated separately."

Dr. Harold Haybin of the Mayor Clinic, who presented a paper at the annual meeting of the National Association of Physicians in Industry, said he studied 176 business executives with an average age of 44.3 years.He reported that more than one-third of the people suffered from the following three diseases-heart disease, peptic ulcer and high blood pressure due to too stressful life.Think about it, more than 1/3 of the people in charge of industry and commerce suffer from these diseases!And they are all under 45 years old, which shows how high the price of success is!Even if he wins the whole world, what good is it to him personally if he loses his own health?Even though he has the whole world, he can only sleep in one bed and only eat three meals a day.In this regard, in my opinion, a multi-million dollar man is not half as successful as my father.My father was a farmer in Missouri who lived to the age of 89 despite being penniless.

Dr. Alexis Currier, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, said: "Businessmen who don't know how to resist worry will die short." Of course, not only businessmen, but also housewives, veterinarians and masons. in this way. As the science of medicine continues to advance, medicine has eliminated dreadful diseases caused by bacteria such as smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, and various other infectious diseases that have killed millions of people .But medicine has been unable to treat mental and physical ailments not caused by germs but by emotional anxieties, hatred, fear, irritability, and despair.And the catastrophes of this emotional disease are increasing and becoming more common with astonishing rapidity.Relevant personnel estimate that: Among Americans who are still alive, one out of every 20 people has suffered from mental illness at some point in time.One in six young Americans enlisted during World War II was incapacitated because of insanity.

So, what is the cause of these people's insanity?No one can give a definite answer.However, most of the time, it is due to fear and worry.Most anxious and restless people have difficulty adapting to the real world, so that they have no communication with the people around them, and shrink themselves into their own dream world to solve all their worries. Worry is so powerful that it can make even the hardiest of people sick.The famous General Grant discovered this in the last days of the American Civil War.Here's the thing: The northern army under Grant had been besieging Richmond for nine months. Lee's ragged soldiers in the south were defeated.Several regiments even deserted, and the rest prayed in their tents—crying and screaming and seeing visions.Seeing that the war was coming to an end, General Lee's men set fire to the cotton and tobacco warehouses in Richmond City, also set fire to the arsenal, and then fled the city in the blazing night.Grant led the army to pursue the victory, attacking the southern allied forces from the left and right sides and the rear, and sent light cavalry to intercept from the front, demolished the railway line, and seized the vehicles transporting supplies to the southern allied forces.

At this time, General Grant, half-blind due to a severe headache, could not keep up with the procession, so he had to stop in front of a farmhouse.He wrote in his memoirs: "I spent the night there, soaked my feet in cold water with mustard, and put mustard ointment on my wrists and the back of my neck, hoping to be fine the next morning. recovery." Early the next morning, he really recovered.But what made him recover was not some mustard ointment, but a cavalryman who brought back General Lee's letter of surrender. Grant wrote: "When the sergeant came to me, I still had a terrible headache, but as soon as I read the contents of the letter, I was all right."

It was clear that General Grant was only sick with worry, nervousness, and emotional agitation.Once he regained his emotional self-confidence, thinking about his accomplishments and victories, he immediately recovered. Have you ever seen a person's thyroid overreact?I did.I can tell you that they tremble, tremble, and look like they're terrified.The function of the thyroid gland is to regulate the physiological balance. Once it is abnormal, the heartbeat will speed up, and the whole body will be hyperactive, like a big furnace with all the doors open. If there is no operation or treatment, it is very likely to die. Possibly "burn him dry". Not long ago, I traveled to Philadelphia with a friend who was ill.We are going to visit Dr. Nance, a famous specialist who has been treating this disease for 38 years.The first question he asked my friend was: "What's wrong with you emotionally that caused you to be like this?" He said to my friend, if you continue to worry like this, you may get other complications, heart disease disease, stomach ulcers, or diabetes. The famous doctor said: "All these diseases are related to each other, and they are even close relatives. They are all diseases caused by worry." Seventy years later, Roosevelt's treasury secretary, Henry Moresault, also found that worry made him dizzy.He wrote in his diary: In order to raise the price of wheat, President Roosevelt ordered to buy 4.4 million bushels of wheat in one day, which made him feel very worried.He said: "Before this matter came to nothing, I was dizzy. When I got home, I only slept for less than two hours after dinner." If we want to know what worry does to us, we don't need to go to a library or a hospital.Just looking out the window of the house where we're sitting right now, we might be able to see, in a house on another street, a man with a nervous breakdown from worry; in another house, a man with diabetes from worry— As the stock fell, the sugar levels in his blood and urine would rise. Heart disease is now the number one killer in the United States.During the Second World War, more than 300,000 people died on the battlefield, but at the same time, heart disease caused 2 million civilian deaths, and 1 million of them were caused by worry and excessive tension. caused by life.It is also because of heart disease that Dr. Alisis Corell said: "People who don't know how to resist worry will die short-lived." Worry is like a drop of water that keeps dripping down, and that dripping worry often drives people crazy and even suicide. In ancient times, when cruel generals tortured captured captives, they often tied the hands and feet of the captives and put them under a bag that kept dripping water. The water was dripping... dripping... day and night, and finally, the constant dripping of the water on the head seemed to sound like the sound of hammers, which caused the captives to break down and even go insane.This method of torturing prisoners was used by the Spanish Inquisition and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. As a child, I was terrified every time I heard a priest describe the fires of hell, but our pastor never mentioned the hellfires of the physical pain we have here and now. do you love lifeDo you want to live a long and healthy life?Here's Eugenie's story: Eight and a half years ago, doctors told me that I was dying, and would die a slow, painful death from cancer.Even Brother Mei Yu, the most famous doctor in China, also confirmed this diagnosis.Everything tells me that there is no cure for me, that the god of death is coming to me.However, I thought that I was still young, I didn't want to die yet, I couldn't die yet.In desperation, I called my doctor and told him of my desperation.He stopped me impatiently and said, "What's the matter, Eugenie, don't you have any fighting spirit? If you keep crying like this, you will die. Yes, you have encountered the worst situation. But, You have to face the reality, don't worry, let's think about a solution." At this moment, I made a solemn oath with a serious attitude.With my fingernails digging deep into my flesh and my back feeling chills, I told myself, "I'm not going to worry anymore, I'm not going to cry anymore, if there's anything I need to think about, it's that I must Win! I can't die! I want to live! I must continue to live!" After that, although I was skinny and my feet were as heavy as lead, I never worried or cried.I was smiling, although it was a forced smile.However, I am sure that a pleasant state of mind will certainly help in combating disease.All in all, I experienced a miracle cure from cancer firsthand.Over the past few years, I have never been healthier than I am now, thanks to the challenging and combative words of "let's face it, don't worry, let's figure it out." "Anyone who doesn't know how to resist worry will die short." To find peace and happiness, remember this rule: Learn to relax and enjoy, don't let worry destroy us.