If you abuse your stomach, head, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys or eyes, you have distress and pain.
The nervous energy is like a barrel of water—you can draw water from the faucet at the bottom until you have almost exhausted the contents.
Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each day, like the rains replenish the cistern.
Conserve Your Energy.
A reasonable use of your nerve force, like a reasonable use of the rainwater, means you can maintain a permanent supply. But you must be reasonable; you must give the cistern a chance to refill and replace that which you have drawn out.
You, who have shattered and tattered your nerves, are not hopeless. You can come back, but it must be done by complete change of the acts that brought on the condition.
Get more sleep. Eliminate the useless, harmful fads, fancies and functions which disturbed and prevented you from living a sane, rational life.
Avoid extremes, cultivate rhythm and regularity in your business and your home life. Keep away from excitement. Read really good books. Walk more, talk less.
Eat less heat-making foods and more apples. Follow the diet, exercise and thought rules suggested in "Pep."
No Need to Despair.