Word: neurasthenia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes he admits losing his temper ("We have lost our tempers to the point of neurasthenia. . . ."), sometimes he does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When...
...parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...
...Neurasthenia or nervous prostration. The victim feels mentally and physically tired. He is lazy, cannot force himself to work. The neurasthenic often suffers aches and pains in various organs. The pains are real to the neurasthenic, but his doctor can find no physical cause for them...
...often the victim of one of the foregoing phobias. Dr. Sigmund Freud believes that anxiety states are always caused by sexual frustration. But, says FORTUNE, "most psychiatrists would also include financial worries, domestic friction, and other non-sexual causes. In some ways an anxiety state resembles an acute neurasthenia...
...left, while she did the bowing and smiling. Dutchmen nodded grave approval when the Queen was reported to have said: "At home, I am a devoted wife to him but in government he is my loyal subject." During his 30's the Prince Consort, stricken with rheumatism and neurasthenia, suffered long periods of despondency, turned his mind to Boy Scouts and the Red Cross. His dying request: "I desire a white funeral." Queen Wilhelmina announced that on the day of the funeral this week she and Crown Princess Juliana will wear white and the Prince Consort's white...