neuralgia

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Acute emotional distress.

   “A century later, the UK’s post-Brexit dispute with Brussels about Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with the EU has stirred the same neuralgia.”

   “Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.”