Poland's relations with Russia, once equally neurotic, have calmed down.
We found men who love us even though we're still cranky and neurotic, haven't got our careers together, and sometimes talk too loudly, drink too much and swear at the television news.
In addition, participants who were less extroverted or more neurotic had poorer mental health and were more likely to develop adjustment disorder (extroversion: β = −0.20, p < 0.001; β = −0.07, p = 0.023; neuroticism: β = 0.63, p < 0.001; β = 0.40, p < 0.001, respectively).
In addition, participants who were less extroverted had poorer mental health (β = −0.15, p < 0.001), and those who were more neurotic had poorer mental health and a greater likelihood of developing adjustment disorder and hyperventilation (β = 0.60, p < 0.001; β = 0.17, p < 0.001, respectively).
"I think some of the qualities we once attributed to neurotics have simply been normalized," said Peter N. Stearns, a historian at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and author of the forthcoming book "Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society".
Neurotics have a desire to be dominant in relationships and to have a sense of power over their partner.
In Dr. Tarr's experience, fat dogs almost always belong to fat masters; neurotic dogs have neurotic masters, chronically sick dogs have chronically sick masters.
Larry David plays himself as a bald, bespectacled neurotic who has no trouble getting great women.
'I've made a living as a neurotic,' she has perceptively observed.
