neurasthenia

In the 19th century, the analog to burnout was neurasthenia.

Graham shared a scoop he’d found in the British archives: Monty had a diagnosis of neurasthenia, what we’d now call PTSD.

One of the book’s through-lines is the concept of “neurasthenia,” an old-fashioned term describing a collection of symptoms including headaches, listlessness and low-grade depression.

Idleness in the poor became neurasthenia in the rich.

As a child, Jacob was treated for neurasthenia by Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s mentor.