Posted by med_empowered on January 2, 2006, at 18:21:50 [reposted on January 3, 2006, at 0:19:14 | original URL]
In reply to Re: What is Hysteria? » rjlockhart, posted by Larry Hoover on January 2, 2006, at 15:33:42
yup. Hysteria is a conceptualization of erratic female behavior that goes back a long way. In the early 1900s, some docs were doing hysterectomies to "cure" this disorder (they were also removing teeth, since decaying teeth could apparently cause mental illness as well). Now that they got rid of hysteria, there's Borderline Personality Disorder, which my friends and I sometimes call "CWF"--Crazy While Female (80% of borderline people are female).
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