This is a case history of a married man with four children
supporting and secretly living with another woman
during his business trips. He was ill, nervous, irritable, and
cantankerous, and he could not sleep without drugs. The
doctor’s medicine failed to bring down his high blood pressure
of over two hundred. He had pains in numerous organs of his
body which doctors could not diagnose or relieve. To make
matters worse, he was drinking heavily.
The cause of all this was a deep unconscious sense of guilt
He had violated the marriage vows, and this troubled him. The
religious creed he was brought up on was deeply lodged in
his subconscious mind, and he drank excessively to heal the
wound of guilt. Some invalids take morphine and codeine for
severe pains; he was taking alcohol for the pain or wound in
his mind. It was the old story of adding fuel to the fire.