Excerpt:
Certainly
no less than weekly over the past several years we've been confronted
with happy little articles telling us how to maintain our mental health….
We begin to realize that those who have presented us with treatises on
maintaining mental health have all started with the same premise that
we now begin to question.
In telling us how to maintain our mental
health, they are assuming, right off the bat, that we have some mental
health to maintain.
Now, maybe much of the world is in this
enviable, rosy-cheeked state, psychologically speaking.
But I and most of my friends are definitely
not.
We're really, well, sort of neurotic, and
actually having a hell of a time just trying to get by, nervously and
apprehensively bumbling through life hoping not to come apart at our emotional
seams....
What we need, we've come to realize, is
some sort of guide to help us get through. We need something to help reassure
us, make us feel less apprehensive, less inadequate; or, in failing that,
some guidelines to let us know what to expect…
And thus was born A NEUROTIC'S GUIDE TO
SANE LIVING…
…with chapters
such as "How to Parlay a Minor Injury Into Martyrdom," "How
to Be Brave in a Supermarket," "How To Drink Like a Fish and
Blame It on Others," or "How to Pretend You Don't Feel Sexually
Inadequate," and much more, all designed to help you bumble through
life, with a chuckle.
A
NEUROTIC'S GUIDE
TO SANE LIVING
Author: Joseph L. S. Terrell
ISBN
0-9747685-8-8
cover
and interior illustrations by
F. William Terrell
Also
by Joseph L. S. Terrell:
THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE
A
TIME OF MUSIC,
A TIME OF MAGIC
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