Well, sure, if you come to a doctor and you say that you are "hurt", it is a "real thing" because that's the feeling, but an effectively useless term and not a

Well, sure, if you come to a doctor and you say that you are "hurt", it is a "real thing" because that's the feeling, but an effectively useless term and not a "real" ailment or medical condition. I am using the comparison with medical conditions not to suggest that introversion is one, but just to explain what I meant.