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  2. Hysteria - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Female hysteria - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. List of mass panic cases - Wikipedia

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    Recurrent epidemic of mass hysteria in Nepal (2016–2018) – A unique phenomenon of “recurrent epidemic of mass hysteria” was reported from a school of Pyuthan district of western Nepal in 2018. After a 9-year-old school girl developed crying and shouting episodes, quickly other children of the same school were also affected resulting in ...

  5. Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia

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    Mass hysteria, epidemic hysteria, mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder: Painting of Dancing plagues of the Middle Ages are thought to have been caused by mass hysteria. Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: Headache, dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, cough, fatigue, sore throat: Duration: For most cases, under 12 ...

  6. Category:Hysteria - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Male hysteria - Wikipedia

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    In the second half of the nineteenth century, hysteria was well-established as a diagnosis for certain psychiatric disorders. Although the original anatomical explanation of hysteria, the so-called wandering womb, was by this point abandoned, the diagnoses remained associated with (gender stereotypes of) females and female sexuality in the minds of physicians.

  8. The Aetiology of Hysteria - Wikipedia

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    Hysteria was an amorphous medical diagnosis, now sometimes considered to have been a catch-all for various maladies and lifestyle choices. [2] The diagnosis was typically applied to women, but Freud also applied hysteria to men. It was a common diagnosis in Freud's time, with a long history.

  9. Hysteria! - Wikipedia

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    Hysteria! is an American comedy horror-thriller [1] television series created by Matthew Scott Kane. All eight episodes of the first season premiered on October 18, 2024. [ 2 ]