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“They treated me like I was being hysterical,” she says, and ordered her to stay off of Google and to stop talking to Collins.

WHAT UMBILICAL CORD TESTS CAN AND CAN’T TELL US ABOUT STILLBIRTHSPURBITA SAHAJULY 8, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE

The historical—and hysterical—idea that women’s excessive emotions have profound influences on their bodies, and vice versa, is impressed like a photographic negative beneath today’s image of the attention-seeking, hypochondriac female patient.

MEDICAL MYTHS ABOUT GENDER ROLES GO BACK TO ANCIENT GREECE. WOMEN ARE STILL PAYING THE PRICE TODAYELINOR CLEGHORNJUNE 17, 2021TIME

Cook could not be sure whether Lecointe’s paralysis indicated a terminal stage of scurvy or a hysterical reaction.

THE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION THAT CHANGED MODERN MEDICINEJULIAN SANCTONMAY 12, 2021TIME

Those comics hew toward rather sexist tropes about the hysterical woman.

ALL OF YOUR WANDAVISION QUESTIONS, ANSWEREDELIANA DOCKTERMANMARCH 5, 2021TIME

I remembered my mother, who’d spent so much time in mental hospitals, psychiatric wards, her whole life cycling between being overmedicated, under-medicated, ignored, treated like a hysterical woman who couldn’t care for herself.

I AVOIDED FACING MY MENTAL ILLNESS FOR DECADES. THE PANDEMIC CHANGED THATJAQUIRA DÍAZMARCH 3, 2021TIME

So, because nothing was happening, it prompted me to examine how we got to this frozen state, where everyone is hysterical, but actually nothing was happening.

A CONVERSATION WITH FILMMAKER ADAM CURTIS ON POWER, TECHNOLOGY AND HOW IDEAS GET INTO PEOPLE'S HEADSBILLY PERRIGOFEBRUARY 23, 2021TIME

Madame Lebrun grew a trifle hysterical; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.

THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN

Impudent and reckless us he had been all his life, he was now more timid and nervous than an hysterical girl.

BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS

I know quantities of hysterical European women make fools of themselves out here, but I am not hysterical, I assure you.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

She snatched them from him, and burst into a fit of hysterical crying, which ended in a faintness almost as of death.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

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