神しん経けい症しょう性せい障しょう害がい

noun

neurotic disorder

A psychiatric term for a category of mental disorders characterized by distress but not a loss of contact with reality. In modern clinical usage, this term has largely been replaced by more specific diagnoses, but it still appears in older literature and some contexts.

• 彼かれは神しん経けい症しょう性せい障しょう害がいと診しん断だんされた。

  He was diagnosed with a neurotic disorder.