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Hysteria: Hysteria Women, Female Hysteria, Symptoms of Female Hysteria, History of Female Hysteria

Hysteria  is  not  just  the  feeling  you  get  when  you  can't  find  your  car  keys  or  your  checkbook.  It  is  actually  a  medical  condition,  with  physical  symptoms.

Hysteria  is  a  medical  condition  defined  by  the  pschiatric  community.  It  is  a  neurotic  disorder  with  a  host  of  physical  symptoms.  For  many  of  us  hysteria  is  something  we  all  feel  on  any  given  day  or  time.  Make  no  mistake  the  medical  "hysteria"  is  serious  and  the  symptoms  are  such  that  it  can  hinder  how  a  person  functions  in  life.  Here  is  a  crash  course  in  exactly  what  is  hysteria,

Definition

There  are  many  different  definitions  when  it  come  to  "Hysteria"  but  the  most  common  one  is  a  strong,  emotional  disturbance  that  comes  from  some  kind  of  trauma.  It  been  mostly  women  who  has  been  diagnosed  with  the  disease  in  its  200  year  history.

Symptoms

The  way  the  disease  shows  itself  physically  is  through  some  kind  of  physical  impairment,  like  blindness,  paralysis,  deafness  or  anesthesia.

There  is  also  different  types  of  hysteria:

  • Conversion  hysteria  which  is  a  type  of  mental  conflict  which  shows  itself  physically  through  the  common  symptoms  of  hysteria.
  • Mass  hysteria  is  when  large  groups  of  people  all  show  the  same  kind  of  physical  and  mental  symptoms.  They  exhibit  extreme  emotional  states,  extreme anxiety  or  excitement.
  • Collective  hysteria  is  almost  like  mass  hysteria,  a  group  of  people  exhibit  the  same  type  of  hysterical  symptoms  but  it  is  different,  in  that  it  starts with  one  person.  Then  the  group  copies  that  individual  behaviour, a  manifestation. 
  • Anxiety  hysteria  it  is  a  combination  of  conversion  hysteria  and  anxiety  where  one  feels  strong,  persistent  and  uncomfortable  emotions  centered  around  the  idea  that  they  are  in  danger,  but  the  danger  can  not  be  clearly  identified  or  understood.

Women  and  hysteria

The  disease  has  been  around  for  two  centuries  and  mostly  the  disease  has  been  diagnosed  in  women  which  in  and  wrongly.  Diagnosing  women  with  hysteria  was  at  its  height  in  the  19th  century,  and  centered  around  the  idea  that  passionate  women  were  being  sexual  deprived  manifesting  itself  in  this  behavior  called  "Hysteria."  With  such  a  diagnosis  how  they  cured  it  is  anyone's  guess,  but  in  most  of  the  cases  women  were  misdiagnosed.

Now,  thankfully,  female  hysteria  is  no  longer  recognized  as  a  serious  disease.  The  are  a  couple  of  reasons  behind  the  decline: more  people  have  knowledge  psychology  and  am  not  willing  to  believe  every  diagnoses  thrown  their  way.  Also,  there  is  some  cynical  speculation  that  wonders  what  really  has  changed  is  who  the  pyschiatrist  is  diagnosing  with.  hysteria.

Conclusion

The  fact  is  that  hysteria  is  a  abstract  thing  to  talk  about,  much  less  pin  point  for  anyone  experiences  it.  As  in  most  cases  when  it  comes  a  person  has  a  mental  condition  it  is  hard  for  others  to  perceived  it  to  be  real. 

It  is  easy  to  see  a  broken  arm,  or  disease  ridden  body  but  harder  for  a  mental  condition. The  thing  with  hysteria  it  is  a  mental  condition  that  manifest  itself  within  a  person  body  for  unexplained  reasons.

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