neurosis

noun1

1. •
   (old-fashioned) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear differing from normal measures by its intensity, and resulting from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.

   • On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia. — 1881