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an emotional illness in which a person experiences strong feelings of fear or worry
The patient is clearly suffering from a neurosis.
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Recent Examples of neurosis
A touch of neurosis, a lot of laughs and plenty of profound insights could be found at The Hollywood Reporter’s Writer Roundtable, where six scribes who crafted seven of 2024’s top screenplays gathered for a lively conversation in November.
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Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Jolie, as Maria Callas, superbly depicts a reclusive superstar in her declining days, losing her voice and coping with the neuroses of billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Even Hannah was entertaining with her neurosis.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Jolie, as Maria Callas, superbly depicts a reclusive superstar in her declining days, losing her voice and coping with the neuroses of billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Even Hannah was entertaining with her neurosis.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurosis
Noun
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Be smart: Keeping your brain on its toes, so to speak, can help prevent dementia.—
Carly Mallenbaum,
Axios,
7 May 2025
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Social isolation is a leading risk factor for a wide range of serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.—
Rob Simmelkjaer,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2025
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Related article ‘This ain’t your mother’s marijuana’: Surgeon General warns pregnant women and youth about pot risks Young people who use marijuana are more likely to develop long-lasting mental disorders, including depression, social anxiety and schizophrenia, and drop out of school, the CDC said.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
5 May 2025
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For the past 14 years, Palafox has served as private conservator to her son, deemed gravely disabled by schizophrenia that took hold in his early 20s.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
5 May 2025
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Through the two-hour film, Lawrence plays a new mother (Grace) who develops postpartum depression and begins going in and out of psychosis.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
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Palafox tried again a few days later as her son hid in a backyard shed at home, in psychosis.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
5 May 2025
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“Neurosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurosis. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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