An American Treatment for the 'American Nervousness' (1980)

Neurasthenia is the old word for burnout syndrome.

They seems very closely related.

Compare, these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurasthenia#Contemporary_opin...

https://www.mind-body-health.net/index.shtml

Remember this next time someone is confidently asserting to you that you have some condition X and need drug Y. Anyone can construct an ontology from the muddy soup of human behavior.

But also remember this was the time they were selling snake oil to cure any physical malady. It was a time with few rules and fewer consequences.

Are psychiatrists in the habit of confidently asserting what drugs work to treat people’s problems?

As someone who has mental health struggles, I’d love to live in the world where psychopharmacology is that advanced.

It wouldn't be any more advanced. What would be more advanced is psychiatrists' confidence (and mistaken-ness).

Better that they know their own ignorance than be confident and mistaken.

God that site needs some CSS

Alternatively: Thank goodness the 'reader' view works on this site seamlessly.

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