"A lot of us are really in our own heads – we could actually be classified as neurotic".
Yes, recent findings prove that we pale, neurotic, black-clad creatures – members of an acned little colony rather than the empire rulers we fondly imagine ourselves to be – are just as unhealthy as that lot.
Well, I have a feeling that it might focus on a neurotic Jewish New Yorker, but one living in a thoroughly modern age where the best movies are being made on television and where television isn't on the TV anymore.
Nettle suggests that the individual characteristics of a person's amygdala directly influence how neurotic they are.
The Meltdown artists who reached New York in the 70s all share certain memories: the infernal rattling of the graffiti-smeared subway cars, the rent-paying jobs in dive bars and X-rated movie theatres, the hunt for cheap accommodation in parts of town where even cab drivers feared to venture, the culture shock of entering a rotting, neurotic metropolis.
Wintour revealed those moments that only the sleep-deprived, neurotic intensity of an election campaign can produce, moments that hover on the cusp of comedy and tragedy.
This saved me from being a neurotic, anxious pain in the neck – didn't it?
As a walking cliche, as a predictable example of the nervy and educated neurotic, I obediently limit red meat, coffee and saturated fats, never binge drink, walk miles, wouldn't touch a sunbed, and have never smoked since having a bewildering drag of my mother's fag at the age of nine.
In the 1870s a doctor called George Beard identified a new group of neurotic disorders caused by the pressures of advanced civilisation.
When things go badly, they fall back on some surprisingly negative stereotypes.The American stereotype is of a Europe that is economically sclerotic, psychologically neurotic and addicted to spirit-sapping welfare schemes and a freedom-infringing state.
I am one of those people who finds it a hilarious, endearing and unlikely quirk of the universe that the Woody Allen persona – intellectual, obsessive, neurotic, fatalist and lifelong urbanite – is as firmly fixed in the comedy universe as the characters of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Jacques Tati. .
