Quotes About Neurasthenia

A pioneering work in the study of neurasthenia, American Nervousness builds its case through an elaborate mechanical metaphor: the nervous system is like a machine presently under strain in response to the pressures of the machinery of civilized life.

But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability.

Am observat ca acei-sau acele- care se intereseaza cat de cat de ceea ce scriu au o trasatura comuna:neurastenia(ca sa simplificam). Nimeni sa nu deschida aceasta cartr daca n-a fost bantuit de anxietate-iata ce ar trebui sa scrie pe banderola fiecareia dintre cartile mele.

According to Meister Eckhart, divinity precedes God, being His essence, his unfathomable depth. What should we find at man's inmost core which defines his substance in opposition to the divine essence? Neurasthenia – which is to man what divinity is to God.

In the middle 1800s, North American doctors frequently diagnosed their patients with a condition they labeled "neurasthenia." It was a catch-all term that described occasional fatigue, insomnia, depression, and achy muscles — in other words, the symptoms of life.

now Andrée told me that if she had taken up athletic pastimes, it was under orders from her doctor, to cure her neurasthenia, her digestive troubles, but that her happiest hours were those which she spent in translating one of George Eliot's novels

In neurasthenia the person is exhausted from stimulation. They do not have the reserves to recover easily from mental or physical exertion.