DR CLAIRE WEEKES
SELF-HELP
for your
NERVES
Learn to relax and enjoy life again by 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
26 What Kind of Person Suffers from Nervous Illness?
CHAPTER 1 The Power Within You
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,