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neurotic
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Girl Interrupted
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- It's like a neurosis," I said.†
neurosis = a mild mental disorder -- usually worrying too much about something
- If the biochemists were able to demonstrate the physical workings of neuroses (phobias, or difficulties getting pleasure from life), if they could pinpoint the chemicals and impulses and interbrain conversations and information exchanges that constitute these feelings, would the psychoanalysts pack up their ids and egos and retire from the field?†
neuroses = mild mental disorders -- usually worrying too much about something
- Possible complications include Dys thymia depressive neurosis, Major Depression, Psychoactive Substance Abuse, and psychotic disorders such as Brief Reactive Psychosis.†
neurosis = a mild mental disorder -- usually worrying too much about something
- It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche.†
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Definitions:
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(neurotic) mildly mentally disturbed -- usually worrying too much about something; or someone with such symptomsMore formally, a neurotic might be described as someone with a mild personality disorder -- a neurosis not attributable to any known neurological or organic problem.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)