This change has been controversial. Likewise, according to the American Heritage Medical Dictionary, neurosis is "no longer used in psychiatric diagnosis." Symptoms and causes
Neurosis may be defined simply as a "poor ability to adapt to ones environment, an inability to change ones life patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more complex, more satisfying personality." There are many different neuroses, including:

obsessive–compulsive disorder
obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
impulse control disorder
anxiety disorder
histrionic personality disorder
dissociative disorder
a great variety of phobiasAccording to C. George Boeree, professor emeritus at Shippensburg University, the symptoms of neurosis may involve:
... anxiety, sadness or depression, anger, irritability, mental confusion, low sense of self-worth, etc., behavioral symptoms such as phobic avoidance, vigilance, impulsive and compulsive acts, lethargy, etc., cognitive problems such as unpleasant or disturbing thoughts, repetition of thoughts and obsession, habitual fantasizing, negativity and cynicism, etc. Interpersonally, neurosis involves dependency, aggressiveness, perfectionism, schizoid isolation, socio-culturally inappropriate behaviors, etc. Jungian theory
Carl Jung found his approach particularly effective for patients who are well adjusted by social standards but are troubled by existential questions. Jung claims to have "frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life". : 140  Accordingly, the majority of his patients "consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith". : 140  A contemporary person, according to Jung, …is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by powers that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names.
The Florida Department of Health has added NSP to their list of reportable diseases. Additionally, since the mid-1970s the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has conducted monitoring of dinoflagellate levels and restricted the harvest of shellfish from nearby shellfish beds when levels are dangerously elevated. Shellfish beds are subsequently opened after two weeks with confirmation of safety by mouse bioassay testing (mouse bioassay testing involves the injection of mice with shellfish extract with subsequent observation for mouse death). See also
Amnesic shellfish poisoning
Diarrheal shellfish poisoning
Paralytic shellfish poisoning
Ciguatera fish poisoning


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