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Young Merrick discovered, within a week, that when a man begins to suspect he is slipping mentally his disorder fattens on itself.
He became morbidly introspective, exaggerated the significance of his little tricks of manner, caught himself doing things automatically and wondered what else he might have been doing of which he had no recollection.