No matter how hopeful we may be in our later teaching about the possibilities of overcoming worry, the really serious worrier will pounce upon the original tragic statement and apply it with terrible insistence to his own case.
You know the story how a man hired a professional worrier to take trouble off his mind?
Now, Mary Chester, as we have said, was a worrier, and the worrier never lets a subject go.
The worrier began to laugh, then cry--first this, then that; for her nerves gave way beneath her.
She was naturally a worrier in a sweet-natured way, but he had always been patient with her little weakness; some men are, with anxious women.
The worrier must learn to realize that he is looking at his sensations, as he does everything else, through a microscope.
With regard to self-consciousness, the worrier will generally realize that even as a child he was exceptionally sensitive to criticism, censure, ridicule and neglect.
There is no more danger of insanity attacking the worrier and the delicate than the robust and the indifferent.
If the worrier has an altruistic turn he will find satisfaction in bestowing duplicates upon his friends, thus still further externalizing his interests.
We may thus, in the worrier whose fears have taken this direction, substitute effort for foreboding.
A fruitful source of discomfort for theworrier at home is the absence of occupation.
The insistent habit of mind in the worrier has been found to permeate the content of thought, and unfavorably to influence action.
The obvious corollary to this proposition is that the constitutional worrier is likely to break down under an amount of work which produces no such effect upon the average normal individual.
In advising the constitutional worrier the chief trouble the physician finds is an active opposition on the part of the patient.
To give the same direction to a worrier that was so effective with the woman whose feelings were easily hurt, may seem equally ridiculous; but in many cases it will certainly prove most useful.
How Bryant rebukes the worrier in his wonderful poem "To a Water Fowl," and Celia Thaxter in her "Sandpiper.
The worrier retires to his bed at the usual hour, but his brain is busy--it is working overtime.
There is still another passage in holy writ that the perpetual worrier should read and ponder.
In business, such a worrier is a constant source of irritation to all with whom he comes in contact, either as inferior or superior.
The fact of worry implies either that the worrier has no control over his mind, or has an empty mind.
It always aggravates, irritates, and, furthermore, helps superinduce the evil the worrier is afraid of.
Let me repeat, then, to the worrier about the salvation of others: You are in a poor business.
Another form of worry is that wherein the worrier is sure that no one is to be relied upon to do his duty.
Another question naturally arises: If this course of action is selfish, and the worrier really desires to be unselfish, how can he control his worry, at least so as not to communicate it to another?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worrier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
