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neurasthenia

Obsolete term for nervous exhaustion, covering mild depression and various symptoms of neurosis. Formerly thought to be a bodily malfunction, it is now generally considered to be mental in origin. Dating from the mid-19th century, the term became widely used to describe the symptoms of soldiers returning from the front in World War I.
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