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Best 7 Hope and Help for Your Nerves Quotes by Claire Weekes

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“'Putting up with' means withdrawing from panic in panic; adding panic to panic, hoping that panic will go quickly and not come back; it means avoiding people and places that bring on panic so that one’s horizon becomes narrower and narrower until it is finally bounded by the front gate; it means always keeping the way open for quick retreat; it means expecting retreat. It means continued illness.”

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“If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.”

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“Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.”

Hope and Help for Your Nerves

“Recovery lies in
- Facing
- Accepting
- Floating
- Letting time pass”

Hope and Help for Your Nerves

“The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.”

Hope and Help for Your Nerves

“When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.”

Hope and Help for Your Nerves

“Without fear a body will quickly repair its sensitized state.”

Hope and Help for Your Nerves

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