Noun
A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMany years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Graves also suffered from shell shock, or neurasthenia as it was then called, but he was never hospitalised for it: I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion. Source: Internet
Soon afterwards, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment. Source: Internet
Quoted in Morrison, p. 54 neurasthenia obliged him to rest for several months after the premiere. Source: Internet