neurotic anxiety

neurotic anxiety
Anxiety of sufficient severity to be deemed clinical; that is, indicative of a pathological, not a normal state. Psychiatric classifications specify that the anxiety can be diffuse, may involve attacks of panic, and is not attributable to real danger.

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