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[United States Coast Guard Training Film. Nonclassified. Copyright 1944 by Paramount Pictures Inc.]

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[The Inside Story]

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[Foreword. The most misunderstood of all human ills are those due to problems of the mind. People still react to many of the false ideas of past ages.]

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[There are, frankly, definite mental illnesses of various sorts but the source of most mental problems is simply emotional disturbance.]

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[This causes as much if not more human pain and suffering and maladjustment of the person than does organic illness.]

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[It is, of course, impossible to fully cover this subject in any single book or picture, but this presentation, made for you,]

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[endeavors to clarify the most common, fundamental troubles that beset us as a result of emotional upset.]

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[A newborn baby is shown]

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This is the beginning of Patrick Jones.

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From this time on, his life is going to be a constant conflict.

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Reality, necessity, and duty; opposing desires, dreams, and distractions.

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These conflicts exist in every human being, and we must learn how to deal with them.

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Ten years later, he is still immature in thought and action.

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Thinking, acting, Pat Jones, who can raise more hell than any kid on the block.

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[Fire cracker explodes and his father yells at him]

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He has plenty of fun, some of it not exactly in accord with adult ideas of peace and quiet, but all in the routine pattern of boyhood.

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It makes him feel a little important to heckle his father.

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Not in any spirit of mean-ness, but because the old man represents authority and discipline.

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[Fire cracker explodes under a tin can]

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Yes, over the years Dad has learned that fire cracker shooting must be restricted at times.

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And this is going to hurt Dad more than it does Pat.

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[Dad brings Pat inside the house]

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As Pat grows older, he finds it pleasant to have people make a fuss over him.

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Like the time when he won first prize in an interscholastic contest.

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Or when he hurt his knee in the championship football game and so covered himself with glory that everyone made over and waited on him.

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He was the four-star local hero and he loved it, as who wouldn't.

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Inside himself, unconsciously, Pat will always carry with him this memory.

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And Dad was proud as a peacock, he showed the newspaper clippings until they were worn out.

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This is home and it's great, friendly and protective.

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Home means Mom's deep-dish apple pie, so good Dad always had three pieces.

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And it's sitting around listening to the radio, playing a little gin rummy with the old man.

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It's where he can call up Margie, whenever he likes. Ask her to the movies, or to a dance, or just down to the drugstore for a soda.

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Or if he feels like being alone, he can go up to his own room.

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There's something mighty comfortable about your own room.

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And he's a man on his own, too. Paying his own way, earning his own living.

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Patrick Jones, junior foreman, holding down a job, with a paycheck every Saturday, and a good one for a guy of his age.

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Jones: Patrick R. Jones.

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Paymaster: Patrick R. Jones. I see they’re closing you out Pat?

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Jones: Closing me out? I quit.

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Paymaster: Bill Goss.

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Goss: Bill Goss. Sorry you’re leavin’, Jones.

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Jones: I’m getting a better job. So long.

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Narrator: And he could quit his job whenever he liked, for whatever reason he liked.

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Overnight, his home life is left behind and he's one of millions of men, each one a Seaman Jones.

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That means he isn't necessarily our Seaman Jones.

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This Seaman Jones may have graduated from one of the ritziest colleges in New England.

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Or he could be Seaman Rabinovitz, who never made it beyond sixth grade of a public school.

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This one could've been one of the seven Swenson kids from a farm.

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Or O'Brien, who never knew his folks and was raised in an orphanage.

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But, whoever a man is you can tell a lot about him by what's in his heart.

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Seaman Jones may be a little along in a couple of years and have a wife and kids.

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Then again, he could just be a kid himself, and still lookin' them over, if you know what I mean.

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Or he could be the boy who's been going steady with the girl who's always been his, and always will be.

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[Take care of yourself. My darling]

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So let’s look at the inside story of this Seaman Jones.

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Who's gone from this -- to this.

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[Patrick shown at his old job, to him in a Coast Guard uniform]

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From Mom's deep-dish apple pie to a mess line.

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From his own room, to this.

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[A full bunk dorm with men wrestling each other]

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Noise, confusion, no privacy.

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The change is a big one and he's having a hard time adjusting himself to this new life.

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Seaman Jones is homesick, unhappy, and disturbed. Lots of things seem to be combining to worry him.

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He feels that he is being unfairly neglected by his family and his girl. He's had no mail for four days now.

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And it seems as though he's the only one who misses.

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He's having trouble concentrating on his class work.

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Doesn't seem able to follow.

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And he's the boy who used to win the silver cups in high school.

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All-in-all, this is no picnic, says Seaman Jones.

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He finds himself panicky and lost in a crowd of countless men, where everybody looks alike and is treated alike.

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No glory here like the time he was a football hero. He's really worried about himself.

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So much so, that one night...

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[Jones is sleeping in the bunk and talks in his head]

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Jones: Mustn't forget my general orders.

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[He hears yelling of orders]

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Jones: How will I pass inspection? Will I get my liberty this weekend?

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Are we going out tomorrow? Will I get my stripes? Exam coming up tomorrow.

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Gee, I've got the jitters. Am I going nuts?

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Exams, drills, inspections, exams, drills -

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[Jones wakes up]

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Jones: My God, maybe I’m going nuts; maybe they’ll drive me crazy!

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Narrator: Then, on top of all his other problems, Seaman Jones, who’d always been a gay, friendly guy, who got along with other people

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found himself unable to enter into the general easy companionship of the men with whom he was living and working.

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[Men gambling]

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Instead of joining in, he resented the sometimes loud, rowdy fun in the barracks and nobody seemed to care how he felt.

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Well, if all that isn't enough to trouble one guy, all of the sudden the knee he twisted in that grand and glorious football game went back on him.

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It really hurt, plenty. But at least he can have that taken care of.

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And a mighty good doctor looks it over with the greatest care.

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But the doctor can't find anything organically wrong with the knee.

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Now the most startling thing about this upset is that Seaman Jones isn't goldbricking.

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His knee really hurts and it's not imagination either.

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He feels the pain, that's how he knows it's there.

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That's important and it's frightening, too because, on top of trouble with studies, and nightmares, and loneliness, what can be wrong?

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He better do something about it. He does

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the most sensible thing he could possibly do: goes to the mental health department and sees the psychiatrist.

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For naturally, an emotional upset must be treated differently from an organic illness.

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Jones tells his story and the doctor is neither surprised nor alarmed, for this isn't a new story to him, amazing as it is to Jones.

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And he knows the answer. An answer that Jones can understand because there aren't a lot of strange highfaluting terms.

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Doctor: Today, we're making a scientific study of mind and we're finding some very encouraging things.

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Now, this nervous breakdown that you're afraid of, for instance. Well, the truth is nobody has a nervous breakdown, ever.

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Jones: They don't?

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Doctor: Nerves, our physical nerves, don't break.

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We do get into mental and emotional moods that make us pretty unhappy, the results of all the difficulties and conflicts that beset us,

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that we've reacted to, that we've had difficulty adjusting to.

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Now, your symptoms suggest that you are in such a mood. A mood of anxiousness.

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Even your physical symptoms, like the aching knee you told me about, can have an emotional cause. I'll explain that in a moment.

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Anxiousness is quite a common mood.

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It makes a person focus his attention much more closely on himself.

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Perhaps he notices his heart beating or his muscles tensing.

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Jones: Yes.

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Doctor: People often think in this mood of anxiousness that it's leading to a mental illness. Actually, it almost never does.

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Perhaps I can help you if I give you an idea of how your mind works.

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You see, Jones, emotions actually can cause real physical pain.

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The conscious mind is a pleasant sunny place where normal thoughts have free reign.

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The unconscious mind is dark and mysterious and harbors such thoughts as:

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"I'm lonesome. Nobody pays any attention to me. I wish I were dead. I must be losing my mind."

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These thoughts are constantly trying to get to the conscious mind to get past the censor who polices the band.

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[Cartoon of characters scaling wall guarded by censor] It's his job to keep them out.

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[A walnut was thrown at the censor's head]

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Censor: Hey!

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Doctor: Here's a little thought that keeps popping up.

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[Walnut turns into a metaphoric thought]

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Walnut-boy: I'm lonesome.

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[Censor throws thought back to unconscious side]

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Suicide man: I wished I was dead.

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Censor: Huh? What did you say?

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Suicide man: I said I wished I was dead.

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[This thought shoots himself in the head with a toy gun]

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Blind man: Uh, I must be stupid; I just can't see things clearly.

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[Blind man falls over the wall into conscious mind]

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Censor: Outside, bums!

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Two-headed man: I'm my own worst enemy!

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Fearful man: Stop pickin' on me! Someone's always pickin' on me!

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Unicyclist: Nobody pays any attention to me. They're blind to real talent! Huh, watch this.

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[Unicyclist cycles very fast but runs over someone and his head is blown off]

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Man who got run over: I must be losing my mind!

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Censor: Holy cats! I must be losing mine!

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[Censor catches all of the thoughts and sends them back to the unconscious side of the wall]

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Censored out of the conscious mind, these self-pitying thoughts tumble into the lap of Old Unconscious Mind,

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the dormant parent of all your emotions, and arouse him with their clamor.

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[A sleeping giant is woken up by the thoughts]

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They goad him to find another way for them to assert themselves on your conscious mind.

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So, this brute, who never forgets anything that ever happened to you, remembers a certain incident.

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Unconscious Mind: Hmm... hmm...

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[Flashback of when Jones hurt his knee playing in the football championship]

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Which got you a nice lot of sympathetic attention in the past.

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An incident which your conscious mind may have completely forgotten, but your unconscious remembers and now he knows just what to do.

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Unconscious Mind: I've got it, boys! Into the car with you!

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[Excited talking amongst the self-pitying thoughts as they get into the car]

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[Switches: Nervous System. Transportation Co. Arm. Neck. Eye. Pelvis. Head. Ear. Feet. Knee]

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[Unconscious Mind pushes the car into a tunnel and flips the switch labeled knee]

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[Car travels down the spine to the knee]

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[Thoughts come out of car with demolishing tools and begin to hit the knee]

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Two-Headed man: Why didn't we think of this before?

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Walnut boy: I'm not lonesome anymore!

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Man on jackhammer: I've got some attention now, this'll really make him hurt!

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Doctor: And that's why your knee hurts, even though there's nothing physically wrong with it.

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Jones: Well, I'm sure glad to hear that.

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Doctor: A lot of boys feel about the way you do.

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There's another seaman in here a few days ago named Scott.

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A big strapping lad, who during his civilian days never had anything wrong with him.

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He won golden glove tournaments and was a very pretty fighter indeed.

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[Flashback of Scott knocking out the other fighter and winning the match]

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Doctor: Then he landed in the Coast Guard and found himself no more important than any other seaman.

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He found himself being ordered around by a Petty Officer half his size; being told what to do and how to do it.

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Having his hat straightened for him and even having the lint dusted off his clothes.

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He, a champion, in his own right.

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And even in the classroom, he found himself thrown for a loss by simple navigation.

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He just couldn't turn out an adequate notebook.

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So, one day he turned up at sick bay with a bad stomach ache.

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A physical exam, x-ray, and laboratory studies proved there was nothing physically wrong, so he was sent to the psychiatrist.

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What went on in his mind was something like this...

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He had a lot of self-pitying thoughts running around in his mind for all his toughness.

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And of course, he wouldn't let his conscious mind think that.

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[Censor catches self-pitying thoughts and throws them back to the unconscious mind side]

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Doctor: The censor chases them into his unconscious mind and Old Man Unconscious decides what Seaman Scott needs

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is a darn good foolproof excuse for not doing so well right now. And he takes care of that in his own way.

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[Self-pitying thoughts get into car]

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[Switches: Nervous System. Transportation Co. Arm. Neck. Eye. Pelvis. Head. Ear. Feet. Stomach]

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[Unconscious Mind pushes the car into a tunnel and flips the switch labeled stomach]

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[Car travels down to the stomach]

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Jackhammer man: Hey fellas come on! Let’s get off of there! Get to work! Come on!

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[Thoughts come out of car with demolishing tools and chat excitedly]

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Fearful man: They're always pickin' on me, now it's my turn to do the picking!

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Doctor: Everybody has emotional disturbances and nobody is really strong enough to control his emotions absolutely.

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I have some notes here that I'll give you.

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Look them over. They may clear up some of the things that have been bothering you.

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Jones: Thank you, sir.

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Narrator: So, Seaman Jones did study the notes and found them even more helpful than he'd hoped.

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They were interesting, understandable, and they made sense.

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[Mental Health]

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[Inside of us, there is always a battle going on between what we want to do, and what we have got to do...]

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Seaman: Get the professor, would ya?

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Jones: Some military doctor gave me, how to go nuts in three easy lessons, or something.

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Kelley: Hey, you ought to give it to some of my Petty Officers.

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I've got a guy over me that's a real Frankenstein. You know it worries me.

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Jones: Oh yeah, well, it says here that:

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"Maybe you're blaming your Petty Officer because you have a sneaking feeling that you can't keep up with the rest of the fellas."

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Kelley: You mean it's me that's nuts?

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Jones: Everybody does funny things. Listen to this:

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"Inside of us, there is always a battle going on between what we want to do, and what we've got to do."

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Kelley: Yeah, that's the way I feel alright.

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Somehow, whenever I get a dirty job to do, no matter what kind, maybe like swabbing down the deck, I can't seem to think straight.

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All of the sudden I ain't Seaman Kelley no more, I'm somebody else.

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I look at all that deck that's gotta be swabbed, and ugh.

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Narrator: And his mind is a million miles away as he dreams himself into an out-of-the-world hero.

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This time as a spy in Hirohito's palace.

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A sort of sea-going Dick Tracy, eh Kelley?

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[Kelley lifts up part of his shirt to reveal a button]

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[Secret Operator 22 1/2]

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[Kelley continues swabbing the floor]

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[Palace doors open to reveal Hirohito]

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[Kelley pulls out a gun from his pants]

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[Kelley goes after Hirohito with a gun]

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[Gunshots are heard]

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Of course there has to be a reward for a daring deed like that.

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[Cheering]

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And it’s a real double barreled homecoming for, yup, Admiral Kelly, right down Fifth Avenue.

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Crowd: Yay, Kelley! Come on, Kelley!

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And this is so real he can hear the crowd yelling his name.

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Petty officer: Kelley! Kelley! Kelley! Get to work!

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Kelley: Yeah, sure.

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Sure, sure. That's why I can't stand that Petty Officer.

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Jones: Well, is it because he’s a bad egg, or just because he had to pull you back to reality?

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Kelley: No, don’t get me in no argument, son. Well, all right, maybe it was.

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Come on, give out with more of our problems, Mr. Antony.

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Jones: Well, maybe some of you guys don’t like these man-to-man combat drills.

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Seaman: I always did hate them.

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Kelley: Well look, you don’t need to be no sawbones to figure that one out.

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You got...ah...inferiority dingus. Yea, it's like what they call an inferiority complication.

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Jones: It says here: “When you have a feeling of inadequacy, when you feel you can’t keep up with the competition,"

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"you may begin to blame the task you’re having trouble with, instead of realizing it is your own weakness that is troubling you.”

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Seaman: Well, does it tell me how I can get cured?

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Second seaman: Well sure, you've got to know something about it.

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Now everyone has inferiority. It's not that that's bad.

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Inferiority helps us a lot of times because we try to improve ourselves.

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Now if we do something that turns out good, that helps us, but there's always inferiority in all people.

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Seaman: Yeah, but that's just horse sense.

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Jones: The doc says, “Mental health is just applying common sense to your emotional problems.”

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Kelley: Sure, only books got to put it in fancy words, so the guy who wrote it can get three bucks a copy for it.

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Jones: Hey, get this: “It is hard to recognize jealousy in oneself."

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"For example, most of us secretly wish we could be All-American athletes.

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"Because we can’t, we like to say athletes are dumbbells, all brawn and no brains.”

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Seaman: And that, my fellow scientist, is what is known as the sour grapes complex.

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Second seaman: That’s maybe why we say most beautiful girls are dumb.

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Kelley: You think that's bad?

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Jones: No, but if we know what it is, we can use it to help us to get ahead.

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Seaman: Say, where did you get that fortune-telling bunch of notes anyway?

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Jones: The doc gave it to me. A couple of weeks ago I started to get … Well, I thought my nerves would snap.

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Seems they can’t snap. Your nervous system is just like anything else.

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It gets tired and upset, but a good night’s sleep, or a little play and relaxation, it’s okay again.

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Nerves don’t break; it’s our feelings that get the best of us.

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Seaman: Say, no kidding. You know what I'm afraid of?

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Second seaman: What, work?

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Seaman: No, I'm afraid of being a coward.

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Second seaman: Gee, me too.

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Seaman: No, sometimes I can't think of anything else.

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I know you'll think I’m a dope or something, but sometimes I go to chapel and I sit there, and I start sweating.

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Seaman: And I say, “Keep me from being a coward. Oh God,

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"what am I going to do if I get into action somewhere and I get so scared I turn traitor?”

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Narrator: That’s a natural terrible fear, the fear of doing this: running away.

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A fear we all have. Yet it’s a normal fear. For it's deep-rooted in every animal.

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We call it the instinct of self-preservation.

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Animals react to it instinctively in order to protect themselves.

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So we know that we may be afraid, but fear and cowardice are not the same.

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In fact, fear is an emotion which has always protected us.

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For example, here’s an American submarine cruising quietly.

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Suddenly, an enemy bomb crashes into it.

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It doesn’t explode, but it’s live, and it can any second, and it’s jammed in an almost inaccessible place below.

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Only this skinny boy can get at it.

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He must remove the detonator even though he doesn’t know how.

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He’s scared blue.

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He can be guided only by instructions from a loud speaker.

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But here’s a great thing about fear.

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Sometimes, in this case for instance, it can actually help.

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For it causes an instantaneous change to occur in our bodies so that every muscle and organ goes into high gear,

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to help us through the emergency, as it’s helping this seaman,

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while he’s literally got the sub and the lives of the crew in his hands.

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Stimulated by fear, the heart pumps faster to carry more blood through the arteries.

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The glands step up their secretions of vitalizing fluids into the system.

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And he’s doing what he has to do, as frightened as you will ever be.

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Fear is acting helpfully to heighten all responses.

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Waste materials which might slow us down are quickly thrown off and there comes an amazing intensity of concentration to carry us through emergencies.

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You can see the terror in this man’s face,

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but by stepping up his physical reactions to help him through the most dangerous crisis of his life, fear has become his ally instead of his enemy.

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Aided by fear, he’s done it.

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Now Seaman Jones, and the rest of his mates who were troubled, understand more fully some of the sources and causes of their worries.

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And as a result, Jones is no longer lonely and out of things. He’s one of the guys.

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He’s learned what his mistakes were and corrected some of them.

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He’s adjusted to his new environment and he’s doing all right.

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The same is true of Seaman Scott.

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He’s all straightened out now and is doing a swell job.

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He even thinks of those bugaboo Petty Officers as good guys now.

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And this one’s a swell ping pong player, too.

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Scott has finally found the right outlets for his energy and ambition. And Kelly the dreamer, he’s not dreaming now.

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He’s having a good time and he’s studying hard, for he’s learned that it’s only through our own efforts that we achieve real satisfaction.

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Yes, all people must learn to live and work in harmony, must assume new responsibilities and take pride in their duties.

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That’s what is now reflected in these men’s faces as they get combat orders.

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Anderson looks confident.

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Kelly is alert and ready.

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Scott is cool, steady warrior, and Seaman Jones is going after new recognition.

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So then, we see how trouble is stayed, as we learn even a little about our minds,

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and thereby protect ourselves against some of the unconscious trends to which we are subject.

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Sound mental health is our nation’s greatest asset, and this we must maintain.
With it, let us have pride.

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Pride in our corps, and in our service.

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And we must have faith and hope, in our cause, our way of life, and for a better world tomorrow.

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[The End. MG-4068. 1944]