stressaholic

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English

Etymology

From stress +‎ -aholic.

Noun

stressaholic (plural stressaholics)

  1. (informal) One who lives a very stressful life and has trouble relaxing.
    • 1989, Mary Ann Froehlich, What's a Smart Woman Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, page 127:
      We must fight the stressaholic burnout syndrome together.
    • 1989, Malcolm Abrams, Harriet Bernstein, Future Stuff, page 107:
      Invented in Australia, the Vibrosaun — a sauna/vibrator/sound system —can relax even the hardcore stressaholic.
    • 1992, Teenage Stress, page 3:
      I am a recovered stressaholic and can testify to the addictive nature of stress.
    • 2015, Stacey Blake, Stress is a Predator: Are You a Stressaholic:
      The stressaholic [is a workaholic] in that they possess all of the same compulsive behaviors with the exception being they have unwittingly set into motion the release of dangerously high levels of hormones associated with the "fight or flight" response".