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neurasthenia
ˌnjʊərəsˈθiːnɪə/
noun
dated
- an ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.
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Neurasthenia
Classification and external resources
Specialty psychiatry
ICD-10 F48.0
ICD-9-CM 300.5
MeSH D009440
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Neurasthenia is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 to label a mechanical weakness of the actual nerves, rather than the more metaphorical "nerves" referred to by George Miller Beard later.
As a psychopathological term, neurasthenia was used by Beard in 1869[1] to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia and depressed mood.
Neurasthenia is currently a diagnosis in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (and the Chinese Society of Psychiatry's Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders). However, it is no longer included as a diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Americans were said to be particularly prone to neurasthenia, which resulted in the nickname "Americanitis"[2] (popularized by William James[3]). Another, rarely used, term for neurasthenia is nervosism.[4]
神經衰弱是一個在20世紀初受當時的西方醫學影響而傳入中國的術語[1]，用以表示人體神經實際上的機械性衰弱。其英語「Neurasthenia」在早至1829年就有使用，且它不是後來的神經病學家喬治·米勒·比爾德（ George Miller Beard ）所使用的「神經質」（nerves），當中「神經質」較為隱喻。
神經衰弱在1869年首次用作精神病理學上的術語，其亦是由比爾德開創此一先例[2]。用以表示一種疾病，當中症狀包括疲勞、焦慮、頭痛、心悸，高血壓、神經痛，以及抑鬱。
美國人被認為特別容易發生神經衰弱，為此人們為起美國人了一個別名——「Americanitis」（由威廉·詹姆斯推廣[3]）
