Word: neurasthenia
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...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...
Philip, hero of The Strange River, is a timid, rich, unambitious young man whose growing neurasthenia takes the uninteresting form of preoccupation with the petty details of his own life. He lives in a menage a trois with his wife, with whom he is only on speaking terms, and his older sister-in-law. Eliane, just shivering on the verge of old-maidhood. Eliane knows Philip better than he knows himself, knows also all about her sister's lover, does not resent Philip being cuckolded because she loves him herself. Her minute caretaking of him gets on Philip's nerves...
...Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might be preserved for a couple of generations to describe to their descendants at first hand the manners of a bygone period. Politicians out of office might sleep until their party came once more into power...