Mental medicine and nursing : for use in training-schools for nurses and in medical classes and a ready reference for the general practitioner . he organic sensations fuse and form an indefinitebackground of consciousness. When from any ORGANIC SENSATIONS 81 cause the external stimuli lose their power overconsciousness, the organic sensations take a moreimportant place. They then become clear anddistinct and everything relating to the person-ality is greatly exaggerated in same result might follow from a state ofabnormal excitation of the centres for organicsensation. Insuch
Mental medicine and nursing : for use in training-schools for nurses and in medical classes and a ready reference for the general practitioner . he organic sensations fuse and form an indefinitebackground of consciousness. When from any ORGANIC SENSATIONS 81 cause the external stimuli lose their power overconsciousness, the organic sensations take a moreimportant place. They then become clear anddistinct and everything relating to the person-ality is greatly exaggerated in same result might follow from a state ofabnormal excitation of the centres for organicsensation. Insuch a case theorganic sensa-tions would bytheir intensityforce their wayto the centre ofconsciousnessand so crowdout all othersensations (). Thus, eithera sluggishnessof the processesof sensation orapperception,or hyperesthe-sia of the organic centres may result in anabnormal exaggeration of the personality. Disturbance of Capacity for Mental Work.—The capacity for mental work stands generallyin inverse ratio to susceptibility to fatigue. In-creased susceptibility to fatigue is very generalin most forms of insanity. Distractibility is. Fig. 28.—Organic sensations exaggerated ; mor-bid ideas of bowel obstruction. (Savage.) 82 MENTAL MEDICINE AND NURSING another cause for decreased capacity for workin mental disease. Again, fatigue may fail to indicate, in morbidconditions, the actual need for rest; in othercases the feeling of weariness is constantly pres-ent, although there is no real exhaustion. CHAPTER XII C. DISTURBANCES OF THE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS Every sensory impression, as we have seen, which sustains anyintimate relationto mans welfare,is accompanied inconsciousness by aconcurrent feelingof pleasure or , the feelingsare a direct indica-tion of the attitudeof the person tothe impressions ofthe external world. Exaltation.—Thischange in theemotional toneis a condition ofmorbid elation, afeeling of happinessand well-being (euphoria) not in accord with
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