John Stamos

People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

American Actor

John Hurt

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

British Actor

Idina Menzel

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

American Actress

Jonathan Kozol

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

American Writer

John Bishop

My generation are the neurotic ones. Therapists' offices all over the world are full of patients blaming their parents for their own failings.

British Comedian

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Jonathan Lethem

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

English Musician

Len Wein

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

American Cartoonist

Ralph Fiennes

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

The term 'neurotic' often denotes someone reacting too much to small problems.

Overreaction Common

'Neurotic' can sound critical, use it with people you know well.

Sensitive Context

In everyday use, 'neurotic' isn't a medical term but describes worry or anxiety.

Not a Diagnosis

In a medical context, 'neurotic' refers to specific disorders, not general worry.

Psychiatric Term

Using 'neurotic' clinically implies a significant impact on life, not just quirks.

Serious Implications

'Neurotic' can be informal, describing excessive worries about minor things.

Colloquial Use

Sometimes 'neurotic' is used for emphasis, not to suggest a true neurosis.

Hyperbolic Expression

Be cautious, as calling someone 'neurotic' might be seen as rude or insensitive.

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 dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is not shutting down and not releasing you know this specific sleep chemical I know that you know Alzheimer's proteins in my brain may be building it and at that point you know I almost become like the Woody Allen neurotic of the sleep world and I'm dead in the water for the next

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 And you're acknowledging what you're doing, accepting responsibility for it. But you're not feeding back into the negative emotions that probably put you in that place where you wanted to procrastinate in the first place. It turns out that self-compassion is especially hard if you're a neurotic perfectionist,

The real reason you...

 Let's start with the who, the comedic character. Think about the books, TV shows, and movies that make you laugh. They're usually filled with funny types, or archetypes. The know-it-all, the loveable loser, the bad boss, the neurotic, the airhead.

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 the pediatrician and he told us that I was being a neurotic first-time parent and you know to relax and just you know lower my expectations for a three-month-old well that didn't seem very satisfying so we sought out a

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 week of search days of their person days to actually find their aunt on it's not realistic to just what hunter force myself and go find a neurotic on the photograph it's not gonna happen so

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 but I can guarantee that every time he leaves the house, that kid's wearing a helmet -- like, to the car, or at school. So whether athlete, scholar, overprotected kid, neurotic mom,

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 every time he leaves the house that kids wearing a helmet like to the car or at school so whether athletes scholar overprotected kid neurotic mom or

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 They understand the structural integrity of a deep avuncular lap, as compared to the shaky arrangement of a neurotic niece in high heels.

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 I've gotten over worrying about the furniture I really can't get that you know neurotic we've been through about

Young Warthog Destroys...

 and neurotic obsessions." Sound familiar? We stop. We breathe. We observe.

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