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The struggle to express themselves, and their own unique abilities and characteristics drives them on, and yet is all too frequently thwarted by the ignorance and misunderstanding that surrounds them. You end up with something like a psychological contagion. The people involved begin to feel even more depressed as they struggle to combat the prejudice against them. Many of them almost hate themselves. For all their seeming bravado, they fear that they are indeed unnatural members of the species.

Many other diseases that seem to be spread by viruses or contagions are also related to the problems of society in the same manner, and when those conditions are righted the diseases themselves largely vanish. It should be remembered that it is the beliefs and feelings of the patients that largely determine the effectiveness of any medical procedures, techniques, or medications.

[...] The contagion of beliefs spreads. [...]

[...] In your prisons you do the same thing, of course, isolating groups of people with like beliefs — denying them all natural stimuli so that a greater contagion of similar beliefs ensues. [...]

Initially there is a psychic contagion: Despair moves faster than a mosquito, or any outward carrier of a given disease. [...]

(Pause at 10:16.) Despair may seem passive only because it feels that exterior action is hopeless — but its fires rage inwardly, and that kind of contagion can leap from bed to bed and from heart to heart. [...]

[...] The fact is that the animals caught your emotional contagion, and according to their lesser abilities translated it for themselves.

[...] If your purposes do not involve illness, for instance, and yet if you believe in contagion, you will automatically avoid circumstances that can lead to epidemics. [...]

[...] It is you who open these channels through your thoughts, a sort of psychic contagion in which you are the agent. [...]

[...] You have heard doubtlessly of emotional contagion, and of emotional climate, and these terms are well named. [...]

The initial contagion in such cases is always emotional and mental. [...]

[...] The fact is that the animals caught your emotional contagion and, according to their own abilities, translated it for themselves.

[...] The fact is that the animals caught your emotional contagion, and according to their lesser abilities translated it for themselves.

Emotional contagion can either be rewarding or dangerous. [...]