The rural districts round Braemar, the Channel Islands, Cromer, Deal, Droitwich, Scarborough, and Weston-super-Mare are, in general, suitable holiday resorts for neuropaths.

Avoid alcohol, tea, coffee, much meat, all excitement, anger and worry.  Take tickets only for comedy at the theatre, and leave lectures, social gatherings and dances alone.

Nerve-starvation needs generous feeding with easily digested food.  Drink milk in gradually increasing amounts up to half a gallon per day.  If more food is needed, add eggs, custard, fruit, spinach, chicken, or fish, but do not forgo any milk.  Avoid starchy foods and sweets.

Eat only what you can digest, and digest all you eat.  Chew every mouthful a hundred times.  This is one of the few sensible food fads.

Drink water copiously between meals, and take no liquid (save the milk) with them.  Keep the bowels open.

If you must “occupy your mind”, take up some very simple, quiet hobby.  Gardening, fretwork, photography and gymnastics are not necessarily quiet hobbies.  Chess, billiards, and contortions with gymnastic apparatus are not to be recommended.

If you must read, peruse only humorous novels.  Never study, and leave exciting fiction and medical work alone.  Symptoms are the most misleading things in a most misleading world.

After your evening meal, take a quiet walk, go to bed and sleep.  You should occasionally spend from Saturday midday to Monday morning in bed, with blinds drawn, living on milk, seeing nobody and doing nothing.  The deepest degradation of the Sabbath is to fill it with odd jobs which have accumulated through the week.

Do not get out of bed too early in the morning, but rise in time to eat your breakfast slowly, attend to the toilet, and catch the car without haste.  If your occupation be an indoor one, rise an hour earlier, and walk or cycle quietly to work.

Take a warm bath followed by a cold douche on rising.  If no warm after-glow follows, use tepid water.  Keep your body warm; your head cool.

Be continent.  Nerve-tone and sexual delights are not compatible.  Matrimony, while a convenient cloak, is no excuse for lust.

Try suggestion for fears and impulses (see Chapter XVIII), for it is useless to try to “reason them out”, though it is useful for a brief period each day to try deliberately to turn the mind away from the obsession, by singing or whistling, gradually prolonging the attempts.

Rest, to prevent the manufacture of more waste products, the elimination of those present, and the generation of nerve-strength from nourishing food are the things that cure.  Chapters XIX and XX deal with the drug treatment.

Do not Worry.  Whatever your trouble is, it is useless to

    “Look before and after, and sigh for what is not”

for the future cannot be rushed nor the past remedied.  All patients reply promptly that they “can’t help” worrying, when in truth they do not try.