Hysteria
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(hstr´), in psychology, a disorder commonly known today as conversion disorder, in which a psychological conflict is converted into a bodily disturbance.
What is Hysteria?
Hysteria is a somewhat controversial and outdated term, the meaning of which has been adapted and changed over time.
Hysteria
Hysteria is a neurosis in which the patient lacks control of his emotions. He may sincerely think he has some disease while he is physically well.
Hysteria
A neurosis, usually due to mental conflict and repression, in which there is uncontrollable excitability or anxiety.
Iatrogenic disease ...
hysteria
A mythical emotional disorder ascribed only to women for about 2,500 years. In ancient Greece, it was ascribed to not being pregnant often enough. In Roman times, it was ascribed to not having enough sex.
Hysteria, Unspecified
Definition
At one time, the term "hysteria" was used to describe a situation in which, according to Sigmund Freud, intense, unconscious memory is converted into a physical symptom such as paralysis or blindness.
Hysteria / Hysterics
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, ...
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SYMPTOMS"There are a great variety of possible symptoms: The mental attitude is calm and somewhat aloof.
Nightmares, hysteria, terror, and panic
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Obsessive, repression, perfectionism, and self denial ...
In conversion hysteria, inability to move an anaesthetic limb, except under control of the sight.
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Once referred to as hysteria, conversion disorder gets its name from the notion that someone with the condition is converting a psychological conflict into an inability to move parts of the body or use the senses normally.
This disorder was traditionally labelled hysteria . Since the time of the ancient Greeks the term hysteria has referred to unexplained physical symptoms.
It may be dependent on depressing disease affecting the general system, but under such circumstances it is generally so complicated with the symptoms of hysteria as to render differentiation difficult (see HYSTERIA).
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Symptoms: Conversion disorder, formerly called hysteria, is a rare mental illness that occurs when a patient has physical symptoms, such as inability to speak or sudden blindness, which are caused by emotional distress.
The rest cure was a treatment for what was deemed hysteria in women. It had great popularity in the 19th century as a way to treat women with mental illnesses that might later be termed generalized anxiety disorder or major depression.
Emotional shock or hysteria
Alcohol-related brain damage
Certain drugs, such as barbiturates or heroin
General anaesthetics
Electroconvulsive therapy
Stroke
Transient ischaemic attack (a 'mini stroke')
Alzheimer's disease
Brain surgery.
Conversion disorder (previously hysteria) is a condition where the person has neurological symptoms, but no neurological cause can be found.
Chamomile deals with mental disruptions such as bad tempers, anxiety, panic attacks and hysteria.
(hysteria A nervous affection in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, ...
Sometimes panic attacks, hysteria, inhaling a food particle, epileptic seizures, fish toxins, lung clots (pulmonary embolism), fainting spells and heart attacks can closely resemble anaphylactic reactions.
Suits those who become depressed after trying to suppress feelings of grief, despair or emotional upset at the expense of outbursts of hysteria or mood swings.
saks ini noun 1 any psychoneurosis other than hysteria 2 psychoneurosis characterised by fears and phobias ...
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saki noun the mind ...
I have previously taken the seasonal shots, but am not taken in by the mass hysteria of a swine flu pandemic that never happened.... perhaps big pharma should go peddle in a few more third world countries.
With severe burns the patient will be in Shock (falling blood pressure, severe fluid and blood loss) and possibly suffer symptoms of hysteria/dementia.
Sapphire is said to help many medical conditions with it's vibrational energy - arthritis in particular, but also hysteria, epilepsy, nervousness/anxiety and sciatica.
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This normal self-centeredness may appear (especially to adults) to border on paranoia, narcissism, or even hysteria.
Another myth of adolescence is that of the indestructible self.
In this form of epilepsy, known as pseudoepilepsy or psychogenic epilepsy, the patient has no conscious intent of forcing a seizure and does not show unusual emotional behavior or signs of hysteria.
Globus hystericus, sometimes just called globus, is the sensation of having a lump in the throat. This is a symptom of hysterical neurosis (conversion hysteria) as well as of diseases such as reflux laryngitis.
Hysteria, often accompanied by confusion
Illness that results in the loss of nerve cells (neurodegenerative illness)
Nutritional problems (vitamin deficiencies such as low vitamin B12)
Seizures
Stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) ...
Myal men contacted spirits in order to expose the evil works they ascribed to the Obeah men, and led public parades which resulted in crowd-hysteria that engendered violent antagonism against Obeah men.
This may progress to mental impairment ranging from confusion and hysteria to coma. Treatment: Hospital emergency treatment, including removal of excess clothing and cooling the body with ice or fans. CPR, oxygen, and IV fluids may also be needed.
Speech Disorder - any defect or abnormality that prevents an individual from communicating by means of spoken words. Speech disorders may develop from nerve injury to the brain, muscular paralysis, structural defects, hysteria, ...
Signs and symptoms include what has been mentioned above for exhaustion and also include marked changes in mental status (delirium, hysteria or a loss of consciousness), hot and wet or dry skin, rapid heart rate and low blood pressure.
include depression, bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, schizophrenia (a less common manifestation of lupus with hallucinations and/or delusions), conversion disorder, somatization disorder, hysteria and other ...
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- Food allergy cases increased by 18% in last 10 years
- Westco products linked to recalled peanuts, US
- Desensitisation therapy may cure peanut allergy
- Fear of nuts creating hysteria
- New treatment may cure food allergies ...
Rare: abnormal gait, abnormal thinking, aggressive reaction, apathy, appetite increased, decreased libido, delusion, dementia, depersonalization, dysphasia, feeling strange, hypokinesia, hypotonia, hysteria, intoxicated feeling, manic reaction, ...
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