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Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for ...
Hysteria is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. [1] In the nineteenth century, female hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women.
Articles relating to hysteria and its depictions. It is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. In the nineteenth century, female hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women. Currently, most physicians do not accept hysteria as a medical diagnosis.
Conversion disorder, originally known as Hysteria and now known as Functional Neurologic Symptom Disorder, [6] presents symptoms following exposure to a certain stressor, typically associated with trauma or psychological distress. Usually, the physical symptoms of the syndrome affect the senses or movement.
The teens displaying tics in LeRoy, New York, are the main focus of the show, which takes us on a medical mystery tour of their symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments.
Ida Bauer (Dora) and her brother Otto. Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and treated for about eleven weeks in 1900. [1]
The sexism of 'hysteria' Understandably, Taberski said, some residents chafed at what was deemed an outbreak of "hysteria." The term has long been used to downplay the maladies of women that ...
On average, women reach perimenopause in their mid-to-late 40s, according to the Office on Women's Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Perimenopause might last anywhere ...