And yet it is of more serious significance, more difficult to overcome, and with a greater danger that permanent symptoms of neurasthenia will result.
Neurasthenia may masquerade as any organic disease.
And, as has been emphasized in preceding chapters, most neurasthenia rises upon a disturbed endocrine foundation, most often, an insufficiency of the adrenals.
Beard's Neurasthenialeaped at once into the limelight.
That is, a defect in the chain of co-operation, balance and compensation among the internal secretions is the basis for the weakness of the nervous system the term neurasthenia is supposed to explain, actually only names.
We have noted in previous chapters the relation of neurasthenia to the glands of internal secretion in general, and to adrenal insufficiency in particular.
Neurasthenia became one of the most popular of diagnoses, and remains so today.
Bronson refers to the significant fact that itching occurs so frequently in the sexual region, and states that sexual neurasthenia is sometimes the only discoverable cause of genital and anal pruritus.
My early habits, after they were broken off, left me none the less a legacy of sexual neurasthenia and a slight varicocele.
And so, too, he snatches up this pain, this neurasthenia to a wonderful, fiery, and grandiose ecstasy.
The term neurasthenia has been so badly abused that its fundamental symptoms have been lost sight of.
We, on the contrary, feel it more than ever incumbent on us to resist the tendency to class in the same section facts which clinical observation distinguishes, otherwise hysteria and neurasthenia will soon signify nothing at all.
The occurrence of any one of them in a case of tic is of no special significance; for the diagnosis of neurasthenia rests on their combination, and it is precisely this combination that is so exceptional in tic.
Neurasthenia too is again to sink to the level of a receptacle for all manner of ill differentiated conditions.
The forcing upon our own labouring-classes of an education above that suited to their natural powers has contributed largely to the constitutional deterioration and the neurasthenia common among them to-day.
The fundamental distinction of neurasthenia is causation by emotion," but the authors have not extricated this factor from the role played by induction either of idea or its secondary emotion.
Freud has delimited what he calls obsessional or compulsion neurosis (Zwangsneurosis), which is classed under psychasthenia by the French and under neurasthenia by others.
It seems to the reviewer indeed, that what the authors call neurasthenia is merely a somewhat complex elaboration of the psychosis by induction to which Babinski has restricted the name hysteria.
We say neurasthenia when the trouble is not in the nerves as such, so much as it is in the collaborative centres.
In other words, the neurasthenia of the ancestor becomes the neurosis of the descendant.
Professional tea-tasters have long been known to suffer from nervous symptoms; very early in the practice of their occupation the head pressure symptoms of neurasthenia occur.
Therefore the neurasthenia requires in its treatment in the ancestor the removal of the exciting cause and the treatment of the effect by physiologic rest in the truest sense of the word.
Every factor of acquired degeneracy produces what is practically this condition of neurasthenia ere exerting any influence in the production of degeneracy.
It is evident that tea produces a grave form ofneurasthenia readily transmissible to descendants.
In children emotional conditions, school strain, rivalry between class-mates, are as liable to produce neurasthenia as are the more serious struggles for existence in later life.
Tædium vitæ, or disgust of life, is an early premonition of insanity, and constantly accompaniesneurasthenia and hysteria.
This suggests that painters suffering from hysteria and neurasthenia will be inclined to cover their pictures uniformly with the colour most in accordance with their condition of lassitude and exhaustion.
This explains why hysteria andneurasthenia are much more frequent in France, and appear under such a greater variety of forms, and why they can be studied far more closely in this country than anywhere else.
Traumatic neurasthenia had nothing to do with Eve's disappearance!
On the whole, there can be little doubt that neurasthenia is liable to be associated with masturbation carried to an excessive extent.
Probably the most important of the comparatively frequent results--though this also arises usually on a somewhat morbid soil--is neurasthenia with its manifold symptoms.
Freud concludes that neurasthenia proper can nearly always be traced to excessive masturbation, or to spontaneous pollutions.
Patients with high blood pressure may show all kinds of symptoms simulating neurasthenia, but hypertension is a much better diagnosis than neurasthenia for such patients, and will lead to more rational treatment.
Janeway deplores the too frequent diagnosis of neurasthenia in these patients.
I found him a fairly healthy man to look at, suffering from some neurasthenia and a tendency to melancholia.
The significance of the facts varies, however, according to the view taken as to the causation of neurasthenia and allied conditions of slight nervous disorder.
On this hypothesis many cases of neurasthenia may well be explained.
Sexual-Neurasthenia The state of sexual neurasthenia is in many respects analogous to that of Graves' disease.
In any medical paper to-day you are almost sure to see an article on neurasthenia and obesity.
There is no surer sign of neurasthenia than when a man who has always been a ready speaker, begins to hesitate for words in which to express himself.
Then, to its surprise, it found that stout people are more liable to neurasthenia than thin ones.
In these ways both Turkish and plain hot water baths are of the greatest service in preventing the onset of neurasthenia and its successor, breakdowns.
On this account it is usually designated by terms expressing this nervous element: nervous exhaustion or debility, neurasthenia or simply nerves.
The various signs of neurasthenia or breakdown depend, not on comparing a man with anyone else, but in measuring him by his former self.
In whatever way neurasthenia assails anyone, it has one certain effect.
In one case ofneurasthenia the first sign consisted of the fact that the patient found, whenever he was alone, a tendency to have resentful and bitter thoughts even of his best friends.
But masturbation to excess is far more likely to induce general neurasthenia than to give rise to sexual perversions.
Hysteria and compulsion-neuroses are regarded as a reaction to the sexual experiences of childhood; neurasthenia and anxiety-neurosis are referred to later sexual experiences.
Alcohol is used much too freely in the treatment of the sick, especially in such conditions as mild typhoid fever, neurasthenia and early tuberculosis.
Muehlon was suffering from neurasthenia at the time, and that no importance could be attached to his revelations, since the two gentlemen referred to had denied making the statements attributed to them.
It is formed on the model of the word neurasthenia and unless it is used with discretion will have all the objections that attach to that other term.
Even at the present time it would be quite possible to reduce the number of neurasthenia cases by more careful attention to diagnosis.
Many of the worse cases of so-called neurasthenia have their origin in this process.
It is cases of neurasthenia that develop after secondary syphilis in persons who have been studying syphilis and its possible effects, which present the most difficult problems in diagnosis that come to the nerve specialist.
Above all, it shares the tendency pointed out by Sir William Gowers with regard to neurasthenia of being "too satisfying.
I believe that if the word neurasthenia must be used, it should be translated for the patient and the absolutely functional character of the affection insisted on in order to neutralize its suggestive influence.
Another serious disease that may in its earlier stages be mistaken for neurasthenia is diabetes.
To tell them that they are sufferers from neurasthenia is satisfying as a rule, because then they have a nice, long, and imposing word with which to talk to their friends about their ailment.
Neurasthenia is the "fatigue neurosis," as a leading expert terms it.
Neurasthenia is not, as is usually supposed, an equally diffused general exhaustion of the nervous system.
In the treatment of neurasthenia we must take the whole man into consideration," said the physician.
I had been under the impression that neurasthenia was practically an incurable disease," he said.
One hundred per centum of cases of neurasthenia are curable," responded the specialist.
The cerebral form has been thus described by a well-known medical writer: "One of the most characteristic features of cerebral neurasthenia is a weary brain.
Through reflex irritation from the nerves of the uterus other nerve centers become involved, so that a general neurasthenia becomes developed with its characteristic concomitants of neuralgia, muscular spasms, uterine colic and hysteria.
Nervousness or neurasthenia is often a result of this excessive mental application.
Her voice, her pleasantness, her neurasthenia were expressing that she was one hearing and loving, seeing and loving, hearing and seeing and loving.
Her voice, her pleasantness, her neurasthenia were expressing that she was being one who was all one hearing and loving, seeing and loving, hearing and seeing and loving.
Her neurasthenia which had been a pleasant thing was something that was expressing that she was one seeing and loving, hearing and loving, seeing and hearing and loving.
This does not indicate, however, that neurasthenia is wholly a dis-ease of the nerves; it merely means that through the nerves the symptoms are given to the brain.
Sidenote: Neurasthenia a last or final warning] Neurasthenia is a signal or warning given by the united voice of all the functions of digestion, secretion, and excretion.
It is safe to say that all cases of neurasthenia can be traced to improper nourishment on the one hand and abnormal mental tension on the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neurasthenia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: analgesia; anesthesia; breakdown; collapse; exhaustion; neurosis; pica; prostration
