CHAPTER 7 Cure of Recurring Nervous Attacks

Now let us consider the symptoms of breakdown that may occur in attacks – panic spasms, palpitations, slowly beating heart, ‘missed’ heart-beats, trembling turns, inability to take a deep breath, ‘lump in the throat’, giddiness, nausea and vomiting. Depression and sleeplessness are such an important part of the nervous breakdown caused by problem, sorrow, guilt or disgrace, that in order to save repetition I shall leave their discussion until describing this second type of breakdown.