neurasthenia
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Contra Burroughs, I see not so much a virus present as I do a kind of Americanitis, à la William James’ neurasthenia.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2015
But unhappy at Oxford, facing financial pressures and plagued by nightmares, tears and constant twitching caused by what was then known as neurasthenia, or shell shock, he decided to leave England for good.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2015
Stranger still were the medical ads that offered electric shock treatment to "cure" neurasthenia - a term encompassing a range of nervous complaints including shell shock.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2014
"But with Wagner, the danger became specifically associated with modern music and modern urban lifestyles in diagnosing the fashionable disease of the time, neurasthenia."
From The Guardian • May 22, 2013
Another loss: his eyes provided him with only half a view of the world, and reading caused his neurasthenia to flare up and made his temples throb.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Vocabulary lists containing neurasthenia
Body Parts: Neur ("Nerve")
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