Female hysteria
Female hysteria, as the name suggests occurs in women and the general symptoms include faintness, nervousness, muscle spasm, fluid retention, irritability, etc. This generally occurs when a women is sexually deprived. However, this phenomenon has decreased to a larger extent now-a-days.
In earlier days, female hysteria was considered to be one of the most common diseases especially after menopause.
Do you know about ancient Greek myth about female hysteria? If I tell you, you will definitely start to laugh and some may even feel how ignorant people were in those times. They were under the impression that a female uterus is displeased and displaced. In this way, it wanders in her body influencing the brain negatively and finally reaches her chest and causes hysteria. In Greek, “uterus” means hysteria. This is how this term was coined.
Few treatments to cure female hysteria in ancient days were:
- Complete bed rest
- Purging
- Beating them
- Massaging the genitals by doctors or mid-wives
- Hysterectomy
- Clitoridectomy
- Psychoanalysis, where doctors analyze why a women behaves in such a way and finds out the conflicts between inner psychic conflicts and sexuality.
Female hysteria was considered to be one of the chronic diseases. Later electronic vibrators were found to cure female hysteria. Electronic vibrators are considered to be sex-toys.
In the early 1950's, female hysteria was declared as a non-disease. It is believed that women who have had c-section delivery may develop symptoms of female hysteria in their early 60s. However, there is no proof for such a behavior.
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