If the subject experiences tension on a persistent basis over a significant period of time, then eventually the subject will become completely psychologically impaired by this tension. The psycho-physical disorder that results will prevent the subject from experiencing the normal sorts of pleasures that others derive from life. Instead he will begin to fetishize reality until a state of hyper-manic perversion arises in which abnormal fixations become his central preoccupation. At that point, a return to normalcy is virtually impossible.
Arnold, J. Melnick, Tension and Psycho-Sexual Disorder in the Modern Male (1952)
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