neurasthenia
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In the 19th century, the analog to burnout was neurasthenia.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2022
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
Often misperceived as willful bids for attention, yesterday’s hysteria and neurasthenia, today’s eating disorders, and whatever problematic behaviors emerge in the future command attention because they defy reduction by medical minds.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011
He paused and for a moment seemed to study his hands, which were riddled with liver spots and trembled at times: Nels suffered from an advancing neurasthenia.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
