LETTER: Toll of anxiety

Thursday 31 August 1995 18:02 EDT

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From Mr Stephen Wellington

Sir: If one imagined that those people who are selfish, self-indulgent bores are so because of their own feelings of insecurity, and that they merely use them as a kind of defence mechanism, is it just possible that, on average, they have a shorter life expectancy because of the stress resulting from their feelings of angst rather than as a result of being selfish or self-indulgent? ("Nice guys really do finish last", 30 August.)

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Wellington

Shrewsbury

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