The correct answer is panicky.
The author himself says that there were a lot of things around him that made him feel nervous, or the exact word he used is - panicky. I don't know the context, however, based on this excerpt it seems that he went through something dangerous or tragic that made him feel panicky about many things around him.
Answer: Dissociative fugue
Explanation:
Dissociative fugue is a disorder where an individual experiences leaving their environment for some time coupled with experiencing amnesia and loss of memory considering what happened that period they were away.
It is a rare disorder.
Jerome's inability to remember the life he lived a certain time is referred to Dissociative fugue
<span>This was a pseudoscientific diagnosis applied to black slaves who were wanting to run away from their masters. It was thought that, by running away from the plantation, black slaves were showing that they simply did not want to do the work that was Biblically intended for them. The idea that slave-masters could treat their help as equals was seen as a contributing factor, in the mind of Samuel Cartwright, the physician who conjectured this specific malady.</span>
Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Ptolemy I Soter, and Chandragupta Maurya
