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an emotional illness in which a person experiences strong feelings of fear or worry
The patient is clearly suffering from a neurosis.
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Recent Examples of neurosis
But in an atmosphere where the gentle Peanuts was the cartoon hit of the day, there were no takers for his radical cartooning that satirized the neuroses and hypocrisies of society — until the Voice was launched.
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Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
A touch of neurosis, a lot of laughs and plenty of profound insights could be found at The Hollywood Reporter’s Writer Roundtable, where six scribes who crafted seven of 2024’s top screenplays gathered for a lively conversation in November.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Freud believed complete elimination of neurosis was neither possible nor desirable.
—Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.
—Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
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Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
A touch of neurosis, a lot of laughs and plenty of profound insights could be found at The Hollywood Reporter’s Writer Roundtable, where six scribes who crafted seven of 2024’s top screenplays gathered for a lively conversation in November.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Freud believed complete elimination of neurosis was neither possible nor desirable.
—Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.
—Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurosis
Noun
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Jim Broadbent, 'Iris' (2002) Featuring Kate Winslet and Judi Dench as famed novelist Iris Murdoch in her younger and older years, the biopic is also a moving drama about the effects of dementia on patients and loved ones.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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Common signs of dementia, according to an article by Dr. Joanna Woodnutt for Catster, include wandering around aimlessly; going to the wrong door to go out, or to find food; struggling find their way out; becoming stressed even in places that should be familiar; and going potty in the wrong place.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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However, schizophrenia itself tends to manifest in late adolescence/early adulthood.—
Tom Hawking,
Popular Science,
26 Feb. 2025
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Bristol Myers Squibb : Patience is required with the drugmaker because its new schizophrenia drug, Cobenfy, is still in the early innings.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Some mental health issues – eating disorders and psychosis, for example – were not included in the NSMHW.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Feb. 2025
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An estimated 100,000 people experience a first episode of psychosis every year, roughly four times the number of spots available in early intervention programs.—
Ellen Barry,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Neurosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurosis. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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