17 SEPTEMBER 1965, Page 21

Such questions, lazily spiralling up like cigarette smoke to the

surface of my mind every time I see the poster, are not meant to belittle the cause. Nor do I think I feel any personal need to under- rate the number of people involved in order to lessen the possibility that I am one. I am always prepared to discover that I am already eaten away under the healthy crust by some loathsome infec- tion though I have not been unfit for work for half a day in twenty years. (I really think that employers, perhaps encouraged by insurance companies and the Ministry of Health, should

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I realise that this is a delusion (probably a highly neurotic one), but I feel as if I had created my mind myself. It is almost as if I could take it out like a set of false teeth, brush away at it for a bit, fizz it up in a glass of cleanser overnight, and start tomorrow with my mind neat ani bright and almost new. I know its limitations better than any psychiatric mechanic with what purports to be a manufacturer's handbook. It was custom-built for me by me. I am never surprised, and therefore depressed, at its failures—inability to understand

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