What is female hysteria?

The early medical community believed that "hysteria" was an abnormal contraction of the body caused by abnormalities in the uterus and was considered a female disease. So do you know what lady hysteria is?

Hysteria, also known as hysteria, often occurs suddenly due to extremely fluctuating moods caused by mental factors. The earliest textual records of hysteria are now difficult to verify, but there is a vivid account of Aunt Zhao's hysterical attack in "Dream of Red Mansions". It was only in modern times, when Freud founded psychoanalysis, that it was declared to be included in the scope of psychiatry.

Hysteria is related to physical constitution, autosuggestion factors and genetic inheritance, and most of the time it occurs after the effect of mental factors. Hysteria belongs to the categories of "depression", "syncope", "dumbness", and "visceral agitation" in traditional Chinese medicine. Clinically, patients are often worried, suspicious, sensitive, frightened, irritable, insomnia and memory loss. They often collapse suddenly due to emotional stimulation, hold their breath, close their eyes, stiffen their body or tremble their limbs, and even suffer from hemiplegia.

Why is hysteria so popular with women? This is related to women's inherent temperament and unique structure. The original interpretation of hysteria was "uterine mutation", a disease unique to women, until Freud discovered male hysterics and this basis was overturned.

Most women suffering from hysteria are not talkative, sensitive and suspicious, delicate and sensitive, have unstable beliefs and emotions, have a lot of imagination, are very vain, and are very prone to lust. Once exposed to mental stimulation or inappropriate suggestion, the disease will occur. Sometimes it can also occur when the cause of the disease is not very obvious. The symptoms of the disease can be aggravated or improved and disappeared due to suggestion, and the symptoms of repeated attacks are often very similar. In addition, there is a shameful factor that makes women embarrassed, that is, infertility among a small number of women.