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Hysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain collapse -- all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America's intellectual and economic elite around the tur…
"In 1903 an epidemic raged among American artists, writers, and intellectuals, and through the leisure class as well. Called "American nervousness" or "the blues," the psychological disorder diagnosed as neurasthenia loomed large in the lives and writings of such diverse figures…
"In 1903 an epidemic raged among American artists, writers, and intellectuals, and through the leisure class as well. Called "American nervousness" or "the blues," the psychological disorder diagnosed as neurasthenia loomed large in the lives and writings of such diverse figures…