Overstimulated

I believe it may be a symptom of nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia, what some are calling "Americanitis" - an increasingly common condition... Think of your body as a machine, Mrs. Jones. it has a finite amount of nervous energy which it replenishes through rest, recreation, and fellowship. Working too hard for too long in too stressful of an environment overtaxes the body's nervous system. Body pain, dyspepsia, morbid fears, and fatigue can result. As well as acute episodes which resemble heart attack or stroke, but are not dangerous. Nerve attacks... I've seen the affliction in one in 30 of my patients. We believe rapid modernization is exacerbating the condition here in America. Our bodies are simply not designed for such overstimulation. It's plaguing men and women of station and standing. Generals, surgeons, executive officers. Overworked.

~ Taylor Brown, Rednecks

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I read this in a novel the other day. The scene was from a conversation about the health and well-being of Mary G. Harris Jones - known as "Mother Jones" around the turn of the last century. That means this was hypothetically said about 100 years ago.

We have always been working too hard for too long in too stressful an environment. 

We oughta quit that.