Nerve-wracked

Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points.

I dropped to my knees in the Saint Aquinas chapel every single night for two weeks straight and dialed the divine Dr. Phil for guidance, implicitly blaming him for my woes: You created my pitiful self-consciousness and nerve-wracked sexuality with your religious rules and prohibitions —do something about it!

With regard to the latter, she wrote of “the undeniable calmative value of the motion picture as a relaxation for nerve-wracked humanity."