Of course her living and intelligent interest enabled her to gain very much faster, for she not only enjoyed her growing freedom, but she also enjoyed seeing her experiments work.

Nature always tends toward health, and if we stop interfering with her she will get us well.
There is just this difference between the healing of a physical sore and the healing of strained and irritated nerves With the one our bodies are healed, and things go on in them about the same as before.
With the other, every use of the will to free ourselves from the irritation and its cause not only enables us to get free from the nervous illness, but in addition brings us new nerve vigor.
When nervous illness is met deeply enough and in the normal way, the result is that the nerves become stronger than ever before.
Often the effect of nervous strain in women is constant talking.
Talk--talk--talk, and mostly about themselves, their ailments, their worries, and the hindrances that are put in their way to prevent their getting well.

This talking is not a relief, as people sometimes feel.
It is a direct waste of vigor.

But the waste would be greater if the talk were repressed.

The only real help comes when the talker herself recognizes the strain of her talk and "loosens" into silence.
People must find themselves out to get well--really well--from nervous suffering.