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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, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, even sexually forward behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for others". [1]
S.M. (patient) S.M., sometimes referred to as SM-046, is an American woman with a peculiar type of brain damage that physiologically reduces her ability to feel fear. First described by scientists in 1994, [ 1] she has had exclusive and complete bilateral amygdala destruction since late childhood as a consequence of Urbach–Wiethe disease.
Claire Weekes. Doctor Hazel Claire Weekes MBE (11 April 1903 – 2 June 1990) was an Australian general practitioner and health writer; she also had an early career as a research scientist working in the field of comparative reproduction. Doctor Weekes is considered by many as the pioneer of modern anxiety treatment and has written several ...
Pat Hobbs, center, stretches her arms with other patients during a yoga class for breast cancer patients on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, at Memorial Rehabilitation Institute Outpatient Treatment ...
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by exaggerated feelings of anxiety and fear responses. [ 7] Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a fast heart rate and shakiness.
David Thomas, special adviser to the director of the Office of Research on Women's Health, tells Yahoo Life: “Women are more often given anti-anxiety drugs for pain compared to men, where pain ...
The patient was aware of the relief that "rattling off" brought her, and she described the process using the terms "chimney-sweeping" and "talking cure". The latter term subsequently became part of psychoanalytic terminology. Other levels of story telling soon came up, and were combined with and penetrated each other. Examples include:
Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling [ 1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder . The memoir's title is a reference to the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at Her Music. [ 2]