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Having an unstable mental state, characterized by neurosis

Abnormally sensitive, obsessive, or anxious

Characterized by an obsession or fixation with something or someone

Affected by or deriving from wildly uncontrolled emotion

Not having a sound state of mind

Overly sensitive to criticism

Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

Attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner

Irritable and quick to take offense at petty things

Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion

To be continuously haunted or possessed by something, especially negative emotions, ideas or desires

Abnormally anxious about one's health

A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily

A person who is unduly anxious about their health

Mentally deranged person

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Adjective

Having an unstable mental state, characterized by neurosis

“Bezzola and others have described the circuitous ways in which the neurotic patient seeks to deprive physicians of their value.”

Adjective

Abnormally sensitive, obsessive, or anxious

bundle of nerves

on pins and needles

feeling anxious

in a cold sweat

like a cat on a hot tin roof

like a cat on hot bricks

on the defensive

in a state of agitation

in a state of nerves

bricking oneself

all of a lather

all of a dither

all of a doodah

having butterflies in the stomach

having cold feet

having a funny feeling

having stage fright

hot-and-bothered

beside yourself

throwing a wobbly

out of your mind

hot under collar

at the end of your tether

easily frightened

easily agitated

discombobulated

a bundle of nerves

discountenanced

like a fish out of water

hot and bothered

waiting for the axe to fall

waiting with bated breath

with one's stomach in knots

with your heart in your mouth

all of a flutter

champing at the bit

lacking social skills

tied up in knots

biting one's nails

tossing and turning

shaking in one's shoes

anxiously waiting

nervously awaiting

fearfully anticipating

apprehensively expecting

sweating bullets

on the qui vive

with bated breath

at sixes and sevens

terror-stricken

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

chicken-hearted

undemonstrative

with one's back up against the wall

at the end of one's rope

in fear and trepidation

pushing the panic button

heavy with grief

racked with suffering

overcome with sorrow

racked with pain

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“The parents' neurotic anxiousness impels the child to become predictable and, thus, in the process, to become a stranger to himself.”

Adjective

Characterized by an obsession or fixation with something or someone

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“The neurotic fixation on avoiding distressing thoughts and feelings has the paradoxical effect of exacerbating suffering and disrupting purposeful actions.”

Adjective

Affected by or deriving from wildly uncontrolled emotion

beside yourself

driven to distraction

out of one's wits

pulling no punches

hammer and tongs

knock-down-and-drag-out

like one possessed

untrammelled^UK

jumping up and down

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Adjective

Not having a sound state of mind

non compos mentis

of unsound mind

mad as a hatter

away with the fairies

nutty as a fruitcake

round the twist

mad as a March hare

not the full shilling

with a screw loose

daft as a brush

off your rocker

as daft as a brush

out of one's mind

not right in the head

off your trolley

mentally deranged

soft in the head

touched in the head

mentally disturbed

emotionally confused

emotionally unstable

emotionally unbalanced

emotionally disturbed

psychopathological

not quite right in the head

off one's gourd

as mad as a hatter

not right upstairs

stark staring mad

out of one's tree

out of one's gourd

around the bend

off the deep end

stark raving mad

manic-depressive

sick in the head

as mad as a March hare

not of sound mind

in another world

one card shy of a full deck

foaming at the mouth

crazy as a loon

severely mentally ill

a few cards shy of a full deck

one sandwich short of a picnic

a few sandwiches short of a picnic

have bats in the belfry

deprived of one's wits

having a screw loose

having kangaroos in the top paddock

have kangaroos in the top paddock

have a screw loose

not in your right mind

out of one's head

two sandwiches short of a picnic

out of one's skull

out of one's box

not quite right

slow on the uptake

thick as two short planks

mentally unbalanced

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Adjective

Overly sensitive to criticism

Adjective

Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

suffering from war nerves

Adjective

Attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner

obsessive about

preoccupied with

enthusiastic about

single-minded about

fanatical about

infatuated with

head over heels

eat sleep and breathe

up to one's ears

deep in thought

passionate about

having a one-track mind

overenthusiastic

very enthusiastic about

scrutinizing^US

burning with curiosity

scrutinising^UK

twitterpated by

enamoured of^US

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Adjective

Irritable and quick to take offense at petty things

ill-humoured^UK

easily agitated

easily frightened

on a short fuse

prima donna-ish

like a bear with a sore head

easily offended

as cross as two sticks

evil-intentioned

bundle of nerves

having got out of bed the wrong side

having got out of bed on the wrong side

hot under the collar

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Adjective

Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion

keen as mustard

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Adjective

To be continuously haunted or possessed by something, especially negative emotions, ideas or desires

out of one's mind

Adjective

Abnormally anxious about one's health

hypochondriacal

health-obsessed

preoccupied with ill health

anxious about one's health

obsessed with one's health

Noun

A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily

bundle of nerves

a bundle of nerves

Noun

A person who is unduly anxious about their health

malade imaginaire

obsessive person

hypochrondriast

Noun

Mentally deranged person

mental defective

one who has bats in the belfry

one who has a screw loose

deranged person

eccentric person

unorthodox person

antisocial personality

peculiar person

unstable personality

disturbed person

unbalanced person

psychiatric patient

demented person

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