Word: insomnia
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...sometimes called, and big N have a lot in common besides Swiss residence and a New York publisher. R is the latest of the unreliable, self-mocking fictional silhouettes of himself Nabokov has written. R has a nasty reputation for deflowering very young girls, wretched insomnia, and a contempt for Freud. Since R is a writer, N has opportunities for even more teasing. One need reach no farther than the book for words to praise it. R is a "true artist . . . with a diabolically evocative style." Indeed it seems that R's prose has "a richness, an ostensible dash...
...Kierkegaard called despair "the sickness unto death." His description also applies to the severe psychiatric illnesses once labeled melancholia by Freud. These are not the down moods that plague everyone occasionally, but immobilizing and devastating conditions that often cause physical signs and symptoms like loss of appetite and weight, insomnia and slowness of body movement...
Survival Guilt. Because the flood was preceded by three days of rain, thunder and lightning, the most common lingering symptom among the survivors is the uneasiness-in some cases the near panic-that is brought on by stormy weather. Many residents also suffer from insomnia, crying spells, moodiness, and what has been called "survival guilt": unwarranted but painful self-reproach for having lived when others died...
...both sexes, Cantor advises, there are several warning signals: insomnia, neglect of personal appearance, the giving away of prized possessions, or a long-lasting depression. Nor does the end of a depression mean danger is over. On the contrary, it is just then that a deeply unhappy youngster "is most likely to mobilize his energies and actually commit suicide...
...half century ago, Eiseley watched and heard his father dying of cancer, and ever since then he has suffered from insomnia. That was how he came to live in "the night country," a place of fear and uncertainty, where the rules of daylight no longer apply, and the animal with the yellow eyes is no longer tame. Once you have come to know the night country, you remember it even when the sun is shining...