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    withdrawal, guilt, low self esteem, pessimism and maladjustment.

    Those who withdraw have pulled away from the embrace of their

    fellows.  Those with guilt are certain that their sins have marked them

    for social rejection.  The maladjusted have failed to mesh with those

    around them.  And those with low self-esteem are convinced that

    others have good reason to shun them.  In the study, low natural killer

    cell activity wasn't linked to use of medication, alcohol, marijuana or

    recent medical treatment--just to measures of impaired social

    connection.51

    Meyer Friedman, the doctor who delineated the Type A and

    Type B personality and its relationship to heart disease, says, "If you

    don't think what you do is very important, and if you feel that if you

    died, nobody's going to mourn, you're asking for illness."52

    Even the well-being of the men we would imagine to be most

    invulnerable to social forces depends on the sense that the

    superorganism needs them.  When President Dwight Eisenhower had

    his heart attack on September 24, 1955, mail came in by the sackful

    from all over the world.  Ike said, "It really does something for you to

    know that people all over the world are praying for you."

    Eisenhower's doctor sensed that the president's position in the social

    network could heal him.  He insisted that Ike's aides continue to

    discuss business with the recuperating president, making him feel he

    was still important.  Eventually, Ike went to Camp David for five

    weeks of rest.  It was the worst thing he could have done.  Stripped of

    his sense of social purpose, he went into severe depression.  It was the

    first setback Eisenhower had experienced since his heart attack.  The

    ailing chief executive eventually recovered...when he was allowed to

    go back to work.53

    Finding himself necessary to the social organism had a similar

    impact on another warrior--Colonel T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of

    Arabia. In the Middle East, Lawrence had been a dashing, energetic

    figure.  He had dressed as an Arab, and worked hard to win the

    respect of tribal leaders.  He had taught himself to jump nine feet onto

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