Hysterical Women Take To Their Beds

A story of burn-out, mothering, and a late-in-life diagnosis

Ramon Casas, “Decadent Young Woman After the Dance”

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Hysteria: a psychological disorder (no longer regarded as a single definite condition) with symptoms including conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization), selective amnesia, shallow volatile emotions, and overdramatic or attention-seeking behavior. The term has a controver…