Load-bearing neurosis

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A load-bearing neurosis or bearing neurosis is an active structural element of a psyche, that is, it bears the psychological weight of the elements above free will, resting upon it by conducting its moral weight to a foundation structure.

The ideas most often used to construct load-bearing neuroses in large minds are anxiety, sadness or depression, anger, irritability, mental confusion, and low sense of engineering ability leading to diminished resistance to shear and tensile force and a consequent series of cascading failures.

Behavioral symptoms include concrete avoidance, brick vigilance, and the impulsive and compulsive construction of office complexes and shopping malls.

Cognitive problems may include unpleasant or disturbing architectural plans, repetition of sales pitches and business models, and public displays of sympathy for Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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  • Load-bearing wall - a wall that is an active structural element of a building, that is, it bears the weight of the elements above wall, resting upon it by conducting its weight to a foundation structure. The materials most often used to construct load-bearing walls in large buildings are concrete, block, or brick.
  • Neurosis - a class of functional mental disorders involving chronic distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations. The term is no longer used by the professional psychiatric community in the United States, having been eliminated from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980 with the publication of DSM III. It is still used in the ICD-10 Chapter V F40–48. Neurosis should not be mistaken for psychosis, which refers to a loss of touch with reality. Neither should it be mistaken for neuroticism, a fundamental personality trait proposed in the Big Five personality traits theory.

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