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What is hysteria, and why were so many women diagnosed with it? - Mark S. Micale with tags hysteria, hysteria diagnosis, medical diagnosis, medical history, hysteria history, hysterical female, pathology, uterus, wandering uterus, wandering womb, physicians, witchcraft, witches, nerve doctors, the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman, ppd, post partum, hysterical tendencies, freud, shell shock, ptsd, anxiety, depression, mental health, mental health disorders, mark s. micale, laura jayne hodkin, education, animation, ted, ted-ed, ted ed, teded, ted education

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Do you ever feel tired? Overwhelmed? Depressed? Do you have headaches, dizziness, cramps, difficulty breathing? From 300 BCE to the 1900s, if you answered yes to any of these questions and you had a uterus, a doctor would likely diagnose you with hysteria. So, where did this medical diagnosis come from? And why did it persist for so long? Mark S. Micale traces the history of the catch-all term.

Lesson by Mark S. Micale, directed by Laura Jayne Hodkin.

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