overuses

Updated: May 22, 2025

I have chosen here as examples men whose brains are engaged constantly in the higher forms of mental labor; but the difficulty of arresting at will the overtasked brain belongs more or less to every man who overuses this organ, and is the well-known initial symptom of numerous morbid states.

S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell - Wear and Tear: or, Hints for the Overworked