neuroses

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In the film it's kind of funny, because her neuroses are part of what makes her character so endearing, but for some reason those are the scenes that always come to me when I've just had enough.

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  1. noun 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.

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  • One of the common nerd neuroses is a compulsion to collect data. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Postmodernity, in other words, may be witnessing the decline of what Freud called the transference neuroses and the rise of narcissistic psycho-neuroses. —  I cite
  • The ultimate defense against the psycho-neuroses is usually perversion. —  I cite
  • Contributing to his collection of neuroses was the fact that, when he was quite young, his father went away one day and never came back. —  International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
  • Lewis's attempts to excavate and explore his neuroses are so startlingly lucid and hyperactive that it's easy to caricature him as a kind of blend of Woody Guthrie and Woody Allen, a travelling poet dedicating paeans to pattern baldness rather than dust bowls. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
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