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nervous exhaustion
nervous exhaustion Nervous exhaustion is a historical name for neurasthenia, meaning an unusually marked form of nervous weakness or debility with morbid symptoms.
Nervous exhaustion is a historical name for neurasthenia, meaning an unusually marked form of nervous weakness or debility with morbid symptoms. In this older usage, it referred to a long-lasting functional nervous condition whose symptoms could involve mental as well as sensory or motor difficulties and often fluctuated over time.