neurosis (noun): a mental condition involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality; or (in nontechnical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession.
"The neuroses exhibit on the one hand striking and far-reaching points of agreement...with art, religion. and philosophy. But on the other hand they seem like distortions of them. It might be maintained that a case of hysteria is a caricature of a work of art, that an obsessional neurosis is a caricature of religion and that a paranoic delusonal is a caricature of a philosophical system."
- Sigmund Freud
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