This is the beginning of patrick jones. From this time on, his life is constant conflict. These conflicts exist in every human being, and we must learn how to deal with them. 10 years later, he is still immature in thought and action. Thinking, acting pat jones who can raise more hell than any other kid on the block. He has plenty of fun. Some of it not exactly in accord with adult ideas of peace and quiet, but all is routine. It makes him feel a little important to heckle his father. Not in any spirit of meanness, but because the old man represents authority and discipline. Yes, over the years, dad has learned the firecracker shooting must be restricted at times, and this is going to hurt dad more than it does pat. Finds grows older, he things people make a fuss over, like the time he won first prize in an interscholastic contest or the time he hurt his knee. Everybody made over and waited on him. He was a fourstar hero, and he loved it, as who . Inside himself unconsciously, pat will always carry this memory. Dad was proud as a peacock. He showed newspaper clippings until they were worn out. This is home, and its great friendly and protective. Ho means moms deep dish apple pie, so good dad always had three pieces home means. Its where he can call margie whenever he likes, ask her to the movies or to a dance or just down to the drugstore for a soda. Or if he feels like being alone, he can go to his own room. Theres something mighty comforting about your own room. And he is a man on his own, too, paying his own way, earning his own living. Patrick jones, junior foreman, holding down a job with a paycheck every saturday, and a good one for a guy of his age. I see theyr jones, are closing you out. Closing me out . I quit. Sorry youre leaving, jones. Im getting a better job. And he could quit his job whenever he liked for whatever reason he liked. His home life is left behind, and hes one of millions each known as seaman jones. That means he may not be our seaman jones. This seaman jones could have graduated from college in doing when, or he could be seaman rabinowitz who never paid it never made it past the sixth grade in for the school. This could be one of the swenson kids off the farm or obriens who never knew his folks and was raised in an orphanage. Whoever a man is, you can tell a lot about him i what is in his heart. Seaman jones might be a little along in years, have a wife and kids. Then again, he could be just a look themf and still over, if you know what i mean. Or he could be a boy going steady with a girl who has always been his and always will be. So lets take a look at the inside story of this seaman jones, who has gone from this to this. From moms deep dish apple pie to a mess line. From his own room, to this. Noise, confusion, no privacy. Cut it out. The change is a big one, and hes having a hard time adjusting to this new life. Seaman jones is homesick, unhappy, and disturbed. Lots of things seem to be combining to worry him. He feels like he is being unfairly neglected by his family and his girl. Hes had no mail for four days now, and it seems hes the only one who misses. Hes having trouble concentrating on his classwork. Doesnt seem able to follow. Hes a boy who used to win the silver cups in high school. All in all, this is no picnic for seaman jones. He finds himself panicky and men in a crowd of countless where everybody looks alike and is treated alike. No glory here like the time he was a football hero. Hes really worried about himself. So much so that one night [inaudible] hit the deck hit the deck my liberty this weekend. Ill be going out tomorrow. Ive got the jitters. Maybe im going nuts. Maybe it will drive me crazy. On top of his other problems, seaman jones, who had always been a gay, friendly guy who got along with other people, found himself unable to enter into the general, easy companionship of the men with whom he was living and working. Instead of joining in, he resented the sometimes loud, rowdy fun in the barracks. But nobody seemed to care how he felt. Not enoughl that is to trouble one guy, all of a twisted in that grand and glorious Football Game went back on him. It really hurt plenty, but at least he can have that taken care of, and a mighty good doctor looks it over with the greatest care. But the doctor cannot find anything organically wrong with the knee. The most startling thing about this upset is that seaman jones is not gold breaking. His knee really hurts. Its not his imagination, either. He feels the pain. Thats how he knows its there. Thats important and frightening, too, because on top of troubles with studies, and loneliness, what could be wrong . He better do something about it, and he does. The most sensible thing he could possibly do goes to the Mental Health apartment and sees a psychiatry sees a psychiatrist, for naturally, and emotional upset must be treated different lathe and physical illness. The doctor is neither surprised nor alarmed, for this is neither a new story to him nor to jones. Today, we are making a Scientific Study of the mind and finding some very encouraging things. This nervous breakdown that you are afraid of, for instance well, the truth is nobody has a nervous breakdown ever. They dont . Nerves our physical nerves dont break. We do get into mental and emotional moods that make us pretty unhappy. There are conflicts we have reacted too and we have difficulty adjusting to. So you are in such a mood, a mood of anxiousness. Even your physical symptoms like the aching knee you told me about can have an emotional cause. Anxiousness is quite a common mood. It makes a person focused attention much more closely on himself. Perhaps he notices his heart beating or his muscles tensing. Yes. People often think in this mode of anxiousness, that is leading to a mental illness. Actually, it almost never does. Perhaps i can help you if i give you an idea how your mind works. Emotionsjones, actually can cause real, physical pain. The conscious mind is a place where normal thoughts have free reign. The unconscious mind is dark and mysterious and harbors such thoughts as, im lonesome. Nobody pays any attention to me. I wish i were dead. Im likely losing my mind. These thoughts try to get into. He conscious mind its his job to keep them out. Hey heres a little thought that keeps popping up. Im lonesome. I wish i was dead. Huh . What did you say . I said i wished i was dead. I must be stupid. I just cant see things clearly. Outside, bums. Cspan. Org [indiscernible] im my own worst enemy. Stop picking on me someone is always picking on me. Nobody pays any attention to me. But theres the real power. Watch this. Be losing my mind. Holy cats, i must be losing mine. [indiscernible] uhuhuhuhuh, get back here. Thoughtsself pitying dominate the unconscious mind, the dormant parent of all your emotions, and arouse you with their clamor. They goad him to find another way for them to effect themselves on your conscious mind, so this brute who never forgets anything that ever happened to you remembers a second incident. Hmm. Hmm which got you a nice lot of sympathetic attention in the past. An incident that your conscious mind may have completely forgotten but your unconscious remembers, and now he knows just what to do. Ive got it, boys. Come on. Lets go. It will be fun. Why didnt we think of this before . I got some protection now. This will really make it hurt. Thats why your knee hurts, even though theres nothing physically wrong with it. Well, im sure glad to hear that. And a lot of boys feel about the way you do. There was another seaman in here a few days ago named scott, a big strapping lad, who during days never had anything wrong with him. He won a golden glove tournament and was a very pretty fighter indeed. Then he landed in the coast guard and found himself no more important than any other seaman. He found himself being ordered around by a petty officer half his size, being told what to do and how to do it. Having his hat straightened for him and even having the lint dusted off his clothes. He, a champion in his own right. Classroom, he found himself thrown for a loss by simple navigation. Could not turn out an adequate notebook, so one day, he turned up at sick bay with a bad stomach ache. A physical exam, xray, and Laboratory Studies proved there was nothing physically wrong, so he was sent to the psychiatrist. What went on in his mind was Something Like this he had a lot of self pitying thoughts running around in his mind for all his toughness. Of course, he would not let his conscious mind think them. They are chased into his decidesous mind, which that what seaman scott needs is a darn good full proof excuse for not doing so well right now. He takes care of that in his own way. Darn good, foolproof excuse for not doing so well right now. He takes care of that in his own way. Hey, fellas, come on. They are always picking on me. Now its my turn to do the picking. Has emotional disturbances. Nobody is really Strong Enough to control his emotions absolutely. I have some notes here that i will give you. Look them over. It may clear up some of the things that have been bothering you. Thank you. Did study theones notes and found them even more helpful than he thought. They were interesting, understandable, and they made sense. Look at the professor, would you . In three easyuts lessons or something. I got a guy over me thats a real frankenstein. Really worries me. Oh, yeah . Areays right here maybe you blaming your petty officer because you have a sneaking feeling you cannot came up with the rest of the fellas. Everybody does funny things. Listen to this inside of us, theres always a battle going on between what we want to do and what weve got to do. Yeah, thats the way i feel all right. Somehow, whenever i get a dirty job to do, no matter what kind maybe swabbing down on the deck i cannot seem to think straight. All of a sudden, i8 seaman kelly no more. Seaman kelly no more. Im somebody else. And his mind is a million miles away as he dreams himself into and out of the world hero. This time as a spy in here he hitosalace in hiro palace. Tracy, eh, ick kelly . Of course, there has to be a reward for a daring deed like that, and its a real double buried doublebarreled homecoming for, yes, admiral kelly. This is so real he can hear the crowd yelling his name. Kelly kelly kelly yet to work. Yeah, sure. Sure. Sure, thats why i cant stand my officers my petty officer. Because he tries to get you back to work . If any of you guys dont like these mantoman combat drills. I always did hate them. Coaxial have to be a real saw bones to figure that out. You got a inferiority dingus. Like what they used to call an inferiority complication. It says when you feel you cannot keep up with the competition, you may begin to blame the task youre dealing with instead of realizing it was your own weakness you are struggling with. Does it tell me how i can get cured . Well, sure. You have to know something about it. Everybody has inferiority. Its not that bad. It helps us a lot of the time because we try to improve ourselves. It do something that turns out good, that helps us, but theres always inferiority with all people. Health iss mental just applying common sense to your problems. Sure, only books got to put it in fancy words. Its hard to recognize jealousy in oneself. For example, most of us secretly wish we could be all american athletes. Because we cant, we like to say athletes are dumbbells, all brown and no brains. We say most why beautiful girls are dumb. Is it that bad . No, but if we know what it is, we can use it to help us get ahead. Where did you get that bunch of notes anyway . The dock gave it to me. I thoughtf weeks ago, my nerves had snapped. He says they cant. Your nervous system is like anything else it gets tired, upset, but old but with a good night sleep or a little play in recreation, its ok. Nerves dont break. No kidding . You know what im afraid of . What . Work . No, im afraid of being a coward. G, me, too. No, sometimes i cant give anything else. Sometimes i go into chapel and i sit there and start sweating, and i say, keep me from being a coward. Oh, god, what am i going to do if i get into action somewhere, and i get so scared i turned traitor . Thats a natural, terrible fear. The fear of doing this running away. A fear we all have. Yet, its a normal fear. Its deeprooted in every animal. We call it the instinct of selfpreservation. Animals react to it instinctively in order to protect themselves. That we may be afraid, but fear and cowardice are not the same. In fact, fear is an emotion which has always protected us. For example, here is an american cruising class. Suddenly, an enemy bomb crashes into it. It doesnt explode, but its live, and it can any second, and its jammed in an almost inaccessible place below. Only this skinny boy can get at it. He must remove the detonator, even though he does not know how. Hes scared blue. He can be guided only by instructions from a loudspeaker, but heres the great thing about this sometimes in case for instance it can actually help, for it causes an instantaneous change to occur in our bodies so every muscle and organ goes into high gear to help us through the emergency as it is helping this seaman while hes literally got the crews lives in his hands. The heart pumps faster to carry more blood through the arteries. The glands step up their secretions of revitalizing fluids, and hes doing what he as frightened as you will ever be. Fear is acting helpfully to heighten all responses. Waste materials that might slow us down are quickly thrown off, and there comes an amazing intensity of concentration to carry us through emergency. See the terror in this mans face, but by stepping up his physical reactions to help him through the most dangerous crisis of his life, fear has become his ally instead of his enemy. Aided by fear, he has done it. Now seaman jones and the rest of his mates who were troubled understand more fully some of the causes and sources of their worries. As a result, jones is no longer lonely and now believes hes one of the guys. He has learned what some of his mistakes were and corrected them. He has adjusted to his new environment and is doing all right. The same is true of seaman scott. Hes all straightened out now and is doing a swell job. He even thinks of those bugaboo petty officers as good guys now and this one is a swell pingpong player, too. Scott has finally found the right outlet for his energy and ambition. Kelly, the dreamer . Hes not dreaming now. He is having a good time with his studying hard. Hes learned its only through hard work and effort that we achieve real satisfaction. Yes, all people must learn to live and work in harmony, must assume new responsibilities and take pride in their duties. That is what is now reflected in these mens faces as they get combat orders. Anderson looks confident. Kelly is alert and ready. Scott is a cool, steady warrior. Seaman jones is going after new recognitions. We learn a little about our minds and thereby protect ourselves. Sound Mental Health is our nations greatest asset, and this we must maintain. With it, lets have pride ps and ourur cor service, and we must have faith and hope in our cause, our way of life, and for a better world tomorrow