For, unlike other diseases, the cure does not need a physician, but must be made by the patient herself.
First, she must know that she has the disease.

Fifty nervous talkers might read this article, and not one of them recognize that it is aimed straight at her.
The only remedy for that is for every woman who reads to believe that she is a nervous talker until she has watched herself for a month or more--without prejudice--and has discovered for a certainty that she is not.
Then she is safe.
But what if she discover to her surprise and chagrin that she is a nervous talker?
What is the remedy for that?
The first thing to do is to own up the truth to herself without equivocation.

To make no excuses or explanations but simply to acknowledge the fact.
Then let her aim straight at the remedy--silence--steady, severe, relaxed silence.

Work from day to day and promise herself that for that day she will say nothing but what is absolutely necessary.

She should not repress the words that want to come, but when she takes breath to speak she must not allow the sentence to come out of her mouth, but must instead relax all over, as far as it is possible, and take a good, long, quiet breath.