neuropath
Britishnoun
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"Advice" to a neuropath is usually a very depressing decalogue of "Thou Shalt Nots!"
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George
The sensitive, refined neuropath finds the normal person insipid and dull; the normal person is rendered uncomfortable by the morbid caprices of the neuropath.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George
In anger, as in every other emotion, the neuropath is as transient as he is truculent.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George
Again, the nervous child, like the adult neuropath, very often improves for the time being with every change of scene and surroundings.
From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles
The neuropath, young or old, says what he "thinks" without thinking, that is he says what he feels, and acts hastily without weighing consequences.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George
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