treating hysteria had through the years- get married and have sex.
Why was marriage considered a medical treatment?
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Throughout history hysteria has been a sex-selective disorder, affecting only those of us with a uterus. These uteri were often thought to be the basis of a variety of health problems.
This just shows how little doctors understood about the female body.
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Until 1980, however, hysteria was a formally studied psychological disorder that could be found in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
I didn’t know hysteria was officially considered a disorder for that long.
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