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00:17In spite of what the graduation speakers say every spring, our town's pretty average.
00:28Out of this class of 40, just because it is average, two of these boys and girls will spend
00:36some part of their lives in a mental institution.
00:39My job is to try to keep the people around here healthy, and most of them are.
00:45Of course, nobody's health is ever perfect.
00:49Jim Anderson has a bad ear.
00:51But that doesn't keep it from playing on the football team.
00:55County champions last year, too.
00:57Frank White is near-sighted, but his glasses take care of that.
01:05Dorothy Westerly has a tooth that needs fixing, but she's in good health, I'd say.
01:11Mighty good health.
01:12They've all learned habits of good living that have helped them stay physically healthy.
01:19Habits of cleanliness, good diet, exercise, and rest.
01:25But there's another side to good health, and that's good mental health.
01:30It comes naturally to most people.
01:32Parents who are mentally healthy bring up the children to be mentally healthy, too.
01:38Take Tommy Clark there.
01:40He learned the first rule for good mental health a long time ago, about not bottling up his emotions.
01:48Now, when he works up a head of steam, he puts it to work in a useful way, instead of
01:54holding it inside.
01:55When you try to do that, it's bound to come out in some unpleasant way.
02:01Tommy learned that some years back, just after his younger brother was born.
02:05Come on, Jimmy.
02:06Yes, Tommy.
02:07Come on.
02:08Tommy, eat your meat.
02:09You haven't eaten a bite all day.
02:11I declare I don't know what got into you.
02:13You heard your mother, Thomas.
02:14Now do as you say.
02:17Finally, his folks sent him to see me.
02:20There wasn't anything physically wrong with him that I could find, so I began to talk with him.
02:25If you've got something on your mind, Tommy, why don't you talk about it?
02:29Well, well, I...
02:33We all have our problems, Tommy.
02:37But I can talk about it.
02:39Of course you can.
02:41And you know something?
02:43The more you talk about your problems, the easier they are to solve.
02:48It's bottling things up inside that's bad.
02:52When you feel something, if you're mad or afraid or worried, you've got to let it out or it'll come
02:59out some other way.
03:00Like you losing weight, not sleeping.
03:04Now, what is it, son?
03:06Gosh, Dr. Martinson, this may sound kind of funny to you.
03:10No, no, it won't.
03:11I don't think my folks want me anymore.
03:13They're planning to get rid of me.
03:15What makes you think that, son?
03:17I heard them say so one night.
03:19They thought I was asleep.
03:21And ever since Jimmy was born, they...
03:25Well, it wasn't easy to prove to Tommy that he was wrong.
03:29As in so many cases like this, his parents were partly to blame.
03:34The new baby was taking more of their attention than they realized.
03:39They got a chance to talk to Tommy's mother about it.
03:42And it turned out that they'd been talking about sending Tommy to camp for the summer.
03:47And he misunderstood them.
03:49Well, we finally got it straightened out.
03:53But it taught Tommy a lesson that many people don't learn so quickly.
03:58About not bottling up his emotion.
04:00He learned that it could be easy to talk to his folks and that he didn't have to hide his
04:05love for them.
04:06Good night, Mom.
04:08Good night, Tommy.
04:10Well, that is quite a few years ago.
04:13Tom's graduating today.
04:15That number one rule for good mental health,
04:18don't bottle up your emotions,
04:20has helped him through many a tough spot.
04:23Of course, we're talking about some of the simple rules for staying in good mental health.
04:28And that brings us to the second rule, which is respecting yourself.
04:34Sounds easy, doesn't it?
04:35But look what happened to Bruce Matthews.
04:39He went out for the tennis team a couple of years ago,
04:42and while he had a lot to learn,
04:44he had the makings of a fine player.
04:47But he wasn't satisfied with slow, steady improvement.
04:51Oh, he expected himself to be perfect right from the start.
04:55Missing a point would make him boil over.
04:58At himself.
05:00Well, the coach finally called on to what Bruce was doing to himself with his demand for perfection.
05:06Sure, I think it's fine to keep wanting to improve.
05:08I understand that.
05:09But I think you're going at it the wrong way.
05:11How do you mean?
05:12Well, did you ever stop to think how good your game really is?
05:15Yeah.
05:16After missing that last point?
05:18That's just what I'm getting at.
05:19You're worrying too much about the game, and you don't enjoy it.
05:22But, gee, coach, I know I can do better.
05:24Sure you can.
05:25But the point is, you shouldn't let yourself get mad every time you miss a point.
05:28Why, even the world's champion can't make every point.
05:31You can't be perfect.
05:33You've got to learn to get more pleasure out of this game.
05:35So take yourself as you are, and instead of expecting yourself to be perfect.
05:39It took a while for Bruce to get what the coach was driving at.
05:45But, little by little, without letting up one bit on trying to improve his game,
05:51he learned to enjoy his skill rather than fret over his occasional misses.
05:56Yes, he's learning that second important habit for keeping in good health.
06:02Good mental health, I mean.
06:05The habit of feeling right about himself.
06:09Along with that goes a third important habit.
06:13Feeling right about other people, too.
06:16That means getting along with others, having fun with them, being part of the group.
06:22There's no room for bashfulness in good mental health.
06:27To look at Otto Markle there, you'd never guess what he was like a year ago.
06:33For some reason or other, he was convinced that people just didn't like him much.
06:39He never tried to make friends or to be one of the bunch.
06:43It was Miss Reiner who came to Otto's rescue.
06:46I think you'd enjoy getting into one of the school clubs.
06:50I don't know.
06:51I really don't have any time.
06:53I hear they're playing to organize a camera club.
06:56You could help with that.
06:58I'm not very good with my camera.
06:59I don't think they'd want me in the club.
07:02Of course they would.
07:04The more the better when you're organizing a club.
07:07Gosh, Miss Reiner.
07:08You're certainly doing well in chemistry.
07:11And that's important in photography.
07:13I don't know.
07:15Chemistry's different from photography.
07:17I think you'll find they'd welcome a good chemist like you in a camera club.
07:21But you'll have to do one thing.
07:23What's that?
07:25Offer to help.
07:26Do all you can to help get the club organized.
07:28Get some other students to join.
07:31Oh, I couldn't do that.
07:32Of course you can.
07:34And you'll find that they are like you as much as you like them.
07:38I knew about Otto's problem because his parents had come to see me about the same thing.
07:43Of course, they had to share the responsibility for Otto's bashfulness.
07:48What do you mean, George?
07:50I don't quite get what you're driving in.
07:52No?
07:52Well, I'll tell you, Art.
07:54I've been watching you with that kid a long time.
07:57You're demanding too much from him.
07:59Nobody can be perfect, so don't ride him so hard.
08:02When he does something you don't like, remember he's a person in his own right.
08:06His way may be just as good as your way.
08:09I do think you've been hard on him at times, Arthur.
08:11Oh, but he doesn't toe the line the way he should.
08:14He has advantages I never had when I was a boy.
08:17He has an opportunity to amount to something.
08:19But let him do it his own way.
08:22You've got him feeling now he isn't as good as the next fellow.
08:25That's why he hesitates to make friends.
08:29In Otto's case, as in many others I've known,
08:34talking with the parents was important in helping to get things straightened out.
08:39He's learning the third basic rule for good mental health.
08:43Feeling right about other people.
08:46That means that in any normal group of people, there is a feeling of give and take.
08:52There's an interest in the group as a whole.
08:54There's no distrust or dislike of others just because they happen to be different.
09:01Well, there's one more rule for good mental health.
09:03And I see that Nancy's finally learned it well enough to get her diploma.
09:08That's the habit of doing something about a problem as soon as it comes up.
09:19Gosh, what I don't know about the Civil War period.
09:22I haven't cracked a page in two weeks.
09:23I'm going to have to dig into this one, too.
09:25Come on over to my house tonight.
09:27Let's study it together.
09:28Oh, I just dread getting into it.
09:30Let's put it off till tomorrow.
09:32Well, all right.
09:35Tomorrow never came for Nancy.
09:37That quiz day found her completely unprepared.
09:42But Barbara had faced up to that quiz the day it was announced.
09:49Oh, you're even so worried about this exam.
09:51I just can't sleep.
09:52Oh, I hope I pass.
09:53There's no point in worrying about it now.
09:56Nancy not only had double trouble with that quiz, she had triple trouble.
10:02Before, during, and after.
10:04If she'd got busy just as soon as it was announced, instead of just worrying about it, it would have
10:10been a lot easier for her.
10:12Yes, the people around here are learning some of the basic rules for staying in good mental health.
10:19The first rule is, don't bottle up your emotions like love, fear, anger.
10:26Express them naturally.
10:28Of course, emotions like anger have to be expressed with consideration for others.
10:34Above all, don't carry a grudge.
10:37Get it off your chest.
10:39The second rule is to respect your own abilities.
10:43Always try to improve, but remember that you're human.
10:47The third rule is to respect others.
10:51Treat them as friends.
10:53And finally, when a problem shows up, face it at once.
10:57Calmly, reasonably, and honestly.
11:01And remember that one of the best rules for good mental health is talking out your troubles and problems
11:07with someone whose opinion you respect.
11:09Your parents.
11:11Your family doctor.
11:14Your school teacher or advisor.
11:17Your clergyman may be the right person to talk to on many things.
11:21Whoever it may be, talking is one of the best tonics there is for good mental health.
11:27Another good tonic is an interesting hobby.
11:30Gives you a way to relax, a chance to accomplish something you can be proud of.
11:36Well, those are some of the rules for staying in good mental health.
11:39Of course, they're just the ABCs of a subject big enough to fill whole libraries.
11:44But as more and more folks get to know these ABCs and follow them,
11:49they're going to be able to look at a group like this someday
11:52and feel that they have a greater chance than ever for the kind of happy, useful life
11:58which will make our world a better place to live in.
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