neuroses
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Neuroses and angst fill Manhattan yuppie best friends on the eve of one’s wedding.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019
In his 1884 lecture series On Visceral Neuroses, physician T. Clifford Allbutt suggested that, like hysterics, fasting girls were responding histrionically—aka overreacting—to the day’s gender imperatives.
From Slate • Dec. 3, 2017
Neuroses do not always explode into nervous breakdowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Read before the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Drug Neuroses, Atlantic City, June 4, 1907, and published in the Jour. of Inebriety.
From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Fisher, Irving