Medicine: Benign Nervousness

That tired feeling when you get up in the morning, those nagging worries, that lack of enjoyment in work or friends, that feeling of indecision, of conflicting emotions, that nail-biting, that heart that beats too fast now & then, and that sudden flush—what causes all that? And how do you treat people who complain of these sub-neurotic symptoms?

Sub-neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them—but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people...