What Was Neurasthenia

What was neurasthenia?

A) an illness caused by the sudden spread of sugary foods and beverages, which greatly increased the caution the public displayed toward the rise of consumerism
B) a widespread post-traumatic stress disorder that affected soldiers who had fought in and experienced the horrors of the Civil War
C) a resistant strain of cholera that grew into an epidemic due to the terrible, unsanitary conditions of tenements in cities during the Gilded Age
D) a crippling malady miners faced due to exposure to unclean air that led the federal government to pass sweeping legislation guaranteeing the health of workers
E) a condition with symptoms such as hysteria and depression, often diagnosed by male physicians to force women back into the cult of domesticity