dysphoria

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* Nonspecific dysphoria, anxiety, moodiness, depression, crying

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  1. noun An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.

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  • RDD is often accompanied by one or more of the following symptoms: anger, depression, episodic dysphoria, anxiety, Internet addiction, substance abuse, instability in personal relationships, fear of abandonment, unstable self-image, severe dissociation, and eating disorders. —  Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog
  • The most commonly reported characteristics of a hangover include headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, lethargy, dysphoria, and thirst. —  The Big Apple
  • * Nonspecific dysphoria, anxiety, moodiness, depression, crying —  Find Me A Cure
  • - anxiety, dysphoria, panic and paranoia, especially in naive users; —  بالاترین
  • Before the change in policy, individuals had to prove "exceptional circumstances" before applications for treatment of gender dysphoria could be funded. —  PinkNews.co.uk
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  1. New Latin, from Greek dusphoriā, distress, from dusphoros, hard to bear : dus-, dys- + -phoros, -phorous.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek δυσφορία, pain hard to be borne, anguish, from δύσφορος, hard to bear, from δυσ-, hard, + -φόρος, from φέρειν = English bear.
 

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