Neurosis
English Meaning
A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.
- Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. No longer in scientific use.