Associations to the word «Neurasthenia»

Wiktionary

NEURASTHENIA, noun. (psychiatry) An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.

Dictionary definition

NEURASTHENIA, noun. Nervous breakdown (not in technical use).

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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