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.

Today, female hysteria is no longer a recognized illness, but different manifestations of hysteria are recognized in other conditions such as schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, conversion disorder, and anxiety attacks.

2025年1月30日 · Hysteria was a blanket term used to diagnose women who experienced depression, anxiety, anger, PTSD, high sexual drives, infertility, painful menstruation, blindness, and even menopause! Women were often diagnosed with hysteria when doctors or healers didn’t know what was happening!

2024年7月7日 · Hysteria can be defined as a feature of some conditions that involve people experiencing physical symptoms that have a psychological cause. Hysteria referred to a psychological disorder in females as far back as 1900 BCE, when ancient Egyptians first described the condition as "spontaneous uterus movement." It was also known as "wandering …

Hysteria is undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and until Freud considered an exclusively female disease. Over 4000 years of history, this disease was considered from two perspectives: scientific and demonological.

2020年10月13日 · Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, female hysteria was one of the most commonly diagnosed “disorders.” But the mistaken notion that women are somehow predisposed to mental and behavioral...

2024年12月27日 · conversion disorder, a type of mental disorder in which a wide variety of sensory, motor, or psychic disturbances may occur. It is traditionally classified as one of the psychoneuroses and is not dependent upon any known organic or structural pathology.