neurasthenia
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Contra Burroughs, I see not so much a virus present as I do a kind of Americanitis, à la William James’ neurasthenia.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2015
Stranger still were the medical ads that offered electric shock treatment to "cure" neurasthenia - a term encompassing a range of nervous complaints including shell shock.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2014
"But with Wagner, the danger became specifically associated with modern music and modern urban lifestyles in diagnosing the fashionable disease of the time, neurasthenia."
From The Guardian • May 22, 2013
The 19th-century philosopher William James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer himself, “Americanitis,” in part the result of the accelerating pace of American life.
From New York Times • May 31, 2010
He paused and for a moment seemed to study his hands, which were riddled with liver spots and trembled at times: Nels suffered from an advancing neurasthenia.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
