Word: neurasthenia
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...knows how prevalent the illness is. Many doctors believe a plethora of past and present ailments, given such names as Royal Free disease, neurasthenia, myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic mononucleosis, are all forms of CFS. The first documented CFS-like epidemic occurred in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, and a serious one struck 1,136 people in Iceland in 1948. A huge outbreak in 1984 affected as many as 100,000 people in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand, and fresh reports have popped up steadily since then. While CFS seems to strike young professionals with energetic life-styles...
...government plays on the widespread ignorance of sex by issuing dark warnings about many sexual practices. A 1984 government book for newlyweds on health says that promiscuity brings brief pleasure but also a loss of will, a generally low character and possibly neurasthenia. Even the wedding night has its perils. The book warns that husbands who do not know the location of the female genitals can cause severe damage. "Though such cases are rare," the book says, "they are worth noting...
Burnout may be the late 20th century descendant of neurasthenia and the nervous breakdown-the wonderfully matter-of-fact all-purpose periodic collapse that our parents were fond of. Burnout is preeminently the disease of the thwarted; it is a frustration so profound that it exhausts body and morale. Burnout, in advanced states, imposes a fatigue that seems-at the time-a close relative of death. It is the entropy of the other-directed. Even the best worker-especially the best worker-will often, when thwarted, swallow his rage; it then turns into a small private conflagration, the fire...
ALICE SUFFERED her first breakdown at 19, and was bedridden with multiple ailments by the time she reached her forties. Her list of infirmities resembles an-encyclopedia of nervous disorders common to nineteenth-century women: at various points in her life, her condition was called neurasthenia, hysteria, rheumatic gout, suppressed gout, cardiac complications, spinal neurosis, nervous hyperesthesia, and spiritual crisis. Although it never became clear how many of her problems were physical, Alice's condition was at least, in part, a matter of choice. After feeling slighted and neglected throughout a healthy childhood and adolescence, she discovered, during her first...
...World War I, and it is on the period from 1880 to 1914 that the show concentrates. Few painters have had more difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...