Citation

Orbison TJ. Cal. West. Med. 1929; 30(2): 78-83.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1929, California Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18740965

PMCID

PMC1656164

Abstract

... Emotional Instability Group.-This group, like the first, is readily picked out. Some will be clamorous and hilarious-the easily angered and the just as easily diverted; others will be more depressed and exhibit their depression by copious floods of tears-the latter not commensurate with any true grief; in this group will be found many who attempt suicide by all sorts of queer and ill- considered methods and means, without success or the will to succeed-the "bluff" suicide. We see many of them in the lunacy courts, and one notes with amused surprise that so many of the females come into court "made up" as though doubling for a movie queen. Their instability displays itself in a jaunty exterior; they seem to feel they have justified their previous disappointment by their fake tragedy and do not even sense the absurdity of it. Many in this group are drug addicts and alcoholics who go on a spree "to forget...