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Neuroses and Synapses: Cryptic Mental Health Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Brain’s ability to reshape and rewire under mental stress
  • 2. Molecule messenger crossing the synaptic cleft
  • 3. Rigid trance where muscles lock like Greek statues
  • 4. Break from reality where perception trips a synaptic fault
  • 6. Psychological condition akin to a mental abyss
  • 11. Repetitive ritual disorder—not mere neatness (abbreviation accepted)
  • 12. Agent that dissolves nervous tension, soothing neurons
  • 14. Agent that guards against manic swings (shortened for crossword fit)
  • 15. Clever planner or person in control—sometimes twisted in psych lore
  • 20. Frozen mental state, like a statue in schizophrenia’s grasp
Down
  • 5. Last name of the father who analyzed dreams’ unconscious pipe
  • 7. Talking cure for emotional disarray, coined by Freud’s school
  • 8. Feeling estranged from one’s own self, a disembodiment
  • 9. Antipsychotic drug that clamps down dopamine’s dance
  • 10. Using trance to unpack subconscious locks
  • 13. To conjure sights without external stimuli
  • 16. Moral insanity marked by manipulative charm and lack of empathy
  • 17. Electrical metaphor for mood switches from sun to storm
  • 18. Balanced mood, neither high nor low—Stoic ideal
  • 19. To mentally detach as if splitting from self

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