RavenSly
Well-Known Member
Psychoneurosis, also known as Neurotic Disorder, is just that, the medical disorder of being Neurotic, that is, having chronic anxiety, but neither delusions nor hallucinations. Neurosis is also a blanket term that refers to a family of conditions containing a number of more well-known disorders, such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, and Hysteria.
I actually self-diagnosed myself with Psychoneurosis, since I have a lot of its symptoms, described on Dictionary.com as, "Neurosis: Also called psychoneurosis, a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality."
Essentially, it means if you complain and whine a lot, obsess over aches and pains, panic that you're getting some horrible disease from relatively minor things, worry obsessively about how other people think of you, and jump into situations, making split-second decisions based on urges that you haven't really thought about before acting on them, then you may very well have this condition. Obviously you'd want to talk to your doctor about it before diagnosing yourself [as I now have, and she seemed to agree with me about it, although she didn't really make a decision one way or the other.]
I actually self-diagnosed myself with Psychoneurosis, since I have a lot of its symptoms, described on Dictionary.com as, "Neurosis: Also called psychoneurosis, a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality."
Essentially, it means if you complain and whine a lot, obsess over aches and pains, panic that you're getting some horrible disease from relatively minor things, worry obsessively about how other people think of you, and jump into situations, making split-second decisions based on urges that you haven't really thought about before acting on them, then you may very well have this condition. Obviously you'd want to talk to your doctor about it before diagnosing yourself [as I now have, and she seemed to agree with me about it, although she didn't really make a decision one way or the other.]
