What happened to "neurotic"?

[RobertU]

“Neurotic” was a term popular in the 1960s and 1970s, describing people prone to anxiety and obsession. Woody Allen mined comedy gold as the hapless neurotic, the Jewish New Yorker constantly obsessing about love, art, death, the existence of God, the fate of the universe, and the meaning of life.

As depicted in popular culture, the neurotic sought relief in psychoanalysis, a form of therapy that has faded in favor of medication as the treatment for most mental illnesses.

But who today claims to be neurotic? I hardly hear the word anymore. Has it been eclipsed by the more serious mental issues of drug abuse, clinical depression and homeless mentally ill people? Was being neurotic always just a first world, white people problem?

 

[BirdinHand]

“Neurotic” was a term popular in the 1960s and 1970s, describing people prone to anxiety and obsession. Woody Allen mined comedy gold as the hapless neurotic, the Jewish New Yorker constantly obsessing about love, art, death, the existence of God, the fate of the universe, and the meaning of life.

As depicted in popular culture, the neurotic sought relief in psychoanalysis, a form of therapy that has faded in favor of medication as the treatment for most mental illnesses.

But who today claims to be neurotic? I hardly hear the word anymore. Has it been eclipsed by the more serious mental issues of drug abuse, clinical depression and homeless mentally ill people? Was being neurotic always just a first world, white people problem?

Well, we also thought that smoking was healthy in the 1960’s.

So I’d say that mental health care has evolved just as other health care has evolved in the past 60-70 years.

 

[HIP56948]

A few smart ass answers>
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A neurotic is a person who has discovered the secret of perpetual emotion.
A neurotic is when you say one thing and mean your mother.
A neurotic is a person who wants to have his ache and treat it too.

 

[Port & Starboard]

“Neurotic” was a term popular in the 1960s and 1970s, describing people prone to anxiety and obsession. Woody Allen mined comedy gold as the hapless neurotic, the Jewish New Yorker constantly obsessing about love, art, death, the existence of God, the fate of the universe, and the meaning of life.

As depicted in popular culture, the neurotic sought relief in psychoanalysis, a form of therapy that has faded in favor of medication as the treatment for most mental illnesses.

But who today claims to be neurotic? I hardly hear the word anymore. Has it been eclipsed by the more serious mental issues of drug abuse, clinical depression and homeless mentally ill people? Was being neurotic always just a first world, white people problem?

It's called Liberalism these days.

 

[ataraxia]

“Neurotic” was a term popular in the 1960s and 1970s, describing people prone to anxiety and obsession. Woody Allen mined comedy gold as the hapless neurotic, the Jewish New Yorker constantly obsessing about love, art, death, the existence of God, the fate of the universe, and the meaning of life.

As depicted in popular culture, the neurotic sought relief in psychoanalysis, a form of therapy that has faded in favor of medication as the treatment for most mental illnesses.

But who today claims to be neurotic? I hardly hear the word anymore. Has it been eclipsed by the more serious mental issues of drug abuse, clinical depression and homeless mentally ill people? Was being neurotic always just a first world, white people problem?

I don't know, but I still hear about people being "OCD". Is that kinda the same thing?

 

[anatta]

neurosis - a mental condition that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.

Definition of NEUROSIS

a mental and emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, is accompanied by a less distorted perception of reality than in a psychosis, does not result in disturbance of the use of language, and is accompanied by various physical, physiological, and mental… See the full definition

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a mental and emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, is accompanied by a less distorted perception of reality than in a psychosis, does not result in disturbance of the use of language, and is accompanied by various physical, physiological, and mental disturbances (such as visceral symptoms, anxieties, or phobias)