And, according to research, neurotic people are more likely to be creative thinkers.
These associations can vary with culture: for example, Adams found that among upper-middle-class American teenaged girls, neuroticism was associated with eating disorders and self-harm, but among Ghanaian teenaged girls, higher neuroticism was associated with magical thinking and extreme fear of enemies.
Psychologists and psychiatrists now place symptoms that resemble those in neurosis within the category of depressive disorders or anxiety.