Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

Ушла хондра за себя и близких.

English translation:

Stopped feeling down about myself and loved ones.

Added to glossary by Carole Wolfe
Mar 1, 2021 00:17
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Russian term

Ушла хондра за себя и близких.

Russian to English Medical Psychology Using hypnosis to cure psychosomatic disorders
This sentence appears in the following context:

Мигрень, тревожность и боль в крестце прошли этим методом.
Мигрень прошла навсегда.
После лечения этим методом невыносимая мигрень прошла.
Исчезла также тревожность. Больше не беспокоит боль в крестце.
Ушла хондра за себя и близких.

Discussion

Susan Welsh Mar 1, 2021:
хaндра It's a typo. Хандра, а не хондра.

Proposed translations

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19 hrs
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Stopped feeling down about myself and loved ones.

https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/хандра
хандра - унылое, мрачное настроение
Peer comment(s):

agree Natalia Potashnik
19 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Мне нравится неформальное выражение "down". Большое спасибо."
4 mins

stopped obsessively worrying about himself and his family

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7 hrs

Felt better about myself and my family

Хандра is simply spleen or melancholy, so nothing overly morbid here.

While the word choice is somewhat peculiar, I don't expect you need to preserve the style (which might've called for an equally uncommon word).
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12 hrs

gloom

No more gloomy thoughts of myself and my loved ones.
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