I read books about conversion hysteria, the placebo effect and Sufis who thread fishhooks through their pectoral muscles.
The parents of one young girl were told that her contortions were a consequence of "conversion hysteria," traceable to a boy in her neighborhood who had once enjoyed pulling down girls' pants, or to a bath she had taken with her brother, or, possibly, to her parents' prudish thinking about sex.
It was allegedly started by a gay man who had "conversion hysteria".
Seven different mental disorders, including Depression, Psychosis, Anxiety (coded as Neurosis), Intellectual Disability (coded as Mental Retardation), Conversion Disorder (Hysteria), Alcohol Use Disorder (Alcoholism) and Epilepsy are recorded in the OPD register and reported to the District Health Data Bank located at the District Public Health Office.
When did you start to take the possibility of conversion disorder or mass hysteria seriously?
Conversion disorder, formerly called hysteria, a type of mental disorder in which a wide variety of sensory, motor, or psychic disturbances may occur.
Small-fiber neuropathies usually present with pain in the feet or hands, do not have abnormalities in sensation, lack weakness or loss of reflexes, and are electrophysiologically silent, thus often leading to the erroneous diagnosis of hysteria or conversion reactions.
(Xavier S) "I think historically that you know, there's hysteria and conversion disorder and all that kind of, the old, all the old names sort of just, leave a bad taste".
"I think historically that you know, there's hysteria and conversion disorder and all that kind of, the old, all the old names sort of just, leave a bad taste".
Anxiety disorders, phobic disorder (exhibited as unrealistic fear or dread), conversion disorder (formerly known as hysteria), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depressive disorders have been traditionally classified as neuroses.
Eventually, they diagnosed an outbreak of conversion disorder (popular term: mass hysteria), a relatively rare phenomenon that, for reasons that are poorly understood, typically strikes groups of adolescent girls.
