neurosis
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I wouldn’t call it a neurosis, but it’s something that I care about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
I've just worked on developing better skills to keep myself from talking myself into a place of neurosis.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025
A victory to flush out any neurosis and compound the belief in their plan.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024
The problem in such cases, Freud explained, is that when an entire society develops a neurosis, it becomes impossible to gauge what is “normal.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2024
I'd sit in front of her desk and make troubled-brow faces which I thought illustrated the deep level of neurosis I represented.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Instead of one central couple, there are two, each with their own neuroses and ways of relating to one another.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
“I can’t control where in one’s toilet scrolling one is finding my interview about neuroses and vulnerability, right?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
For Mathew Horne, having played Gavin for 17 years is throwing up all sorts of existential questions: "I'm putting to one side all my neuroses about that and to the ageing process."
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
What the press—and seemingly everyone else—failed to understand was that it was Bobby’s shrewdness in protecting his financial interests, rather than temper tantrums or neuroses, that was making him hesitate.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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