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The mind is drawn away from the outside world, and everything is seen out of proportion. The hypochondriac directs his attention to his health and is in part a monothymic of the fear type. Moliere's "Le Malade Imaginaire" is a classical study of this person, and I do not, presume to better it.
True, it drove him into a worse situation, but for a few moments he tasted something of the life that heroes and the great have. If we can ever find something that will not degrade as it exalts, all the world will rush to use it. Of the monothymic types the choleric or angry are about as common as those predisposed to fear.
Attack that, and his resistance, courage and hope disappear. While there are the types of mood and emotional make-up, there are curious monothymic types, people who habitually tend to react with one emotion or mood. The fear type. It must again be emphasized that we cannot separate emotion, mood, instinct, intelligence in our analysis.
Some of these are cyclothymic, over-emotional, often monothymic but I am discussing them from the standpoint of their satisfaction with life and its experiences. The ordinary label of "finicky" well expresses the type, but of course it neglects the basic psychology. This I have discussed elsewhere in this book and will here describe two cases, one a congenital type and the other acquired.
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