6 November 2018

neurosis

[noo-roh-sis, nyoo-]

noun, plural neu·ro·ses [noo-roh-seez, nyoo-] Show IPA . Psychiatry.

1. 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.
2. a relatively mild personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision and a degree of social or interpersonal maladjustment.
Origin:
1770–80; < Neo-Latin; see neur-, -osis

Neurotic:

adjective – 1. of, relating to, or afflicted by neurosis

noun – 2. a person who is afflicted with a neurosis or who tends to be emotionally unstable or unusually anxious

Today’s aphorism

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

– Mahatma Gandhi

On this day

6 November 1985 – Iran-Contra Affair revealed in the media. U.S. President Ronald Reagan exposed as having sold arms to Iran in order to secure the release of Americans being held by an Iranian group and to also help the U.S. to continue illicitly funding the Nicaraguan Contras after Congress had banned further funding arrangements. The Contras were rebels who were committing human rights violations while opposing the ruling Marxist Sandinista regime. Numerous high-ranking members of the Reagan government were indicted, including Casper Weinberger (Secretary of Defence, later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush), William Casey (Head of CIA), Robert McFarlane (National Security Advisor), Oliver North (member of the National Security Council), and John Poindexter (National Security Advisor).

6 November 1999 – Australians vote to keep the Queen as head of state instead of establishing a republic.