effects.

Give full play to your affections--love of family, of friends, of men
and women, and children.

Devote your bodily strength, and the life force that is in you, to
great positive ends--the service of God and man.

Keep healthy. Here are wise practical details. Take plenty of exercise,
but not too much. Men often fail when tired out. Avoid heavy meals--
especially late at night. Take cold baths daily. Do not lie in bed
after waking. Avoid quacks like the plague. Beware of the reactions
that follow emotional excitement. Work off your emotions in positive
ways. Emotionalism has danger in it.

Learn to pray for the right thing, not for deliverance, but for
strength for victory. Learn to trust God in all things--in this among
others.

If you want to prevent the thing from obsessing you, you must not let
your failures obsess you. Turn your back on them. The only way to drive
out one thought is to put another in. An attempt merely to shut down is
doomed to failure. Concentrate on active life and service. The truth
is, you cannot have the help of Christ just for the cure of this evil.
Give yourself wholly to Him, and you will find He has set you free. You
cannot bring religion in just for a part of life. If your whole life is
in God's hands this trouble will disappear.

_Lastly_, a word to the man who is down and out.