neurosis

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. nervous or mental disorder, illness, sickness, or disease; psychoneurosis, melancholia, nervous breakdown; phobia, mania, obsession, compulsion, hypochondria; psychosis, insanity.See fear.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. psychoneurosis, compulsion, deviation, instability, mental disorder, mental illness, emotional disturbance, neurotic condition, aberration; see also insanity 1 , obsession .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

nervous disorder, personality disorder, emotional disorder, mental illness, disordered thinking, maladjustment, dysfunction, anxiety. ''The result of a conflict between the ego and the id; the person is at war with himself.''—Sigmund Freud.

WORD FIND

• accidental nature: accident-prone

• aversion to people: misanthropy

• aversion to women: misogyny

• collapse, nervous: nervous breakdown

• combat neurosis: shell shock, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

• daughter’s sexual attraction to father: Electra Complex

• death, excessive fear of: necrophobia

• depression, seasonal: SAD, seasonal affective disorder

• dieting to the point of emaciation: anorexia nervosa

• dieting with binging and forced vomiting: bulimia

• fantasizing to escape reality: escapism

• fault-finding, passively hostile character: passive-aggressive personality

• fear, irrational: phobia

• fire-setting, fascination with: pyromania

• genitals, compulsion to expose: exhibitionism

• health and symptoms, dwelling excessively on: hypochondria

• heart attack, excessive fear of: cardioneurosis

• infant or childlike behavior, return to: infantilism

• inferiority, feelings of: inferiority complex, low self-esteem

• isolation from others: withdrawal

• obsession or crazed desire: mania

• panic, prone to: panic disorder, panic attack

• passive acceptance of another’s vices and abuse: codependency

• past, dwelling excessively on the: alethia

• poor-me personality: martyrdom

• pregnancy, imagined: pseudocyesis psychological disturbances converted to

• physical symptoms: conversion disorder

• rapid breathing due to anxiety: hyperventilation

• reality, denial of: denial, defense mechanism

• repeated thoughts, rituals: obsessive-compulsive disorder

• ritual that must be carried out: compulsion

• self-love, excessive: narcissism

• steal, compulsion to: kleptomania

see fear, insanity, mania, neurotic, phobia