HYSTERIA

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 DEFINATION

Hysteria is a mental disorder arising from intense anxiety. It is

characterized by a lack of control over acts and emotions, as a result of
a sudden seizures, unconsciousness with emotional outbursts and
other
This is often the result of a conflict that is emphasized in a person. This
disease appears in both sexes, but is much more common in young
women between fourteen to twenty-five years
ETIOLOGY
hysteria caused by the inability of a person to face the difficulties,
feelings of stress, nervousness, anxiety and inner conflict.
According to Sigmund Freud, hysteria occurs due to traumatic
experiences (painful experience) are then repressed or
suppressed into the unconscious. The point is to forget or omit
the experience. But the traumatic experience can not be undone,
but there is in the unconscious (uncociousness) and one day
emerge into conscious but in the form of offending soul.
 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Factors such as the sudden death of a loved one, failure in exams or

business, big loss, a false accusation, and so on can also lead to
hysteria.
Generally for female hysteria diagnosis as in nuns, virgins and widows
throughout the Middle Ages. This disease really exploded in the United
States and Europe in the 19th century.
A doctor, in 1859, claiming a quarter of all women suffer from hysteria.
 PATHOLOGY

Hysteria is a neurosis characterized by emotional reactions that are

not controlled as a way to defend themselves from sensitivity to
emotional stimuli. This type of neurosis is a form of anxiety
individuals who converted to physical symptoms. Symptoms
expressed by sensory or motor from the central nervous system.
Most of the symptoms converted on touching the skin, eyesight
and hearing. Anesthetic or numbing the skin is a form of
conversion reactions are common. When anxiety appears strong,
the individual will try to avoid the reaction became numb. As a
result, the individual does not feel pain. At this kind of neurosis
and mental functioning may be lost without the desired bodily by
the patient. The symptoms often arise and disappear suddenly,
especially if the person is a situation that causes intense
emotional reactions.
 TYPES OF HYSTERIA

Hysteria classified into two, namely the conversion reaction or hysteria

minor and major dissociation reaction or hysteria.
1) Minor hysteria or conversion reaction.
In the minor anxiety hysteria modified or converted (so called
conversion reaction) into functional disorders somatomotorik or
somatosensory nervous system, with symptoms: paralysis, convulsions,
numb, blind, deaf, and so on.
2) Major hysteria or dissociation reactions.
This kind of hysteria can occur when the anxiety is so severe that the
patient experience, so as to separate the multiple functions of the
personality of one another so that the separate parts function
autonomously, causing the symptoms: amnesia, somnabulisme, fugue, and
double personality.
SYMPTOMS
Among the symptoms associated with hysteria there are physical and some
are related to the mental.
Physical symptoms, among others, are:
a) Paralyzed hysteria
b) Cramp hysteria
c) Seizures hysteria
d) Mutism (lost ability to speak)
Symptoms associated with mental, among others, are:
a) loss of memory (amnesia)
b) Double personality
c) Unconsciously wandered (fugue)
d) Somnambulism
DIAGNOSIS
Hysterical disorders frequently prove to be actual medical or
neurological disorders, which makes it important to rule these
disorders out before diagnosing a patient with hysterical
disorders. In addition to a patient interview, several clinical
inventories may be used to assess the patient for hysterical
tendencies, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) or the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
(MCMI-III). These tests may be administered in an outpatient or
hospital setting by a psychiatrist or psychologist.
 THERAPY

There are several therapeutic techniques that can be done to cure hysteria,
namely:
1) Hypnosis techniques (once applied by dr.Joseph Breuer)
2) Free association technique (developed by Sigmund Freud)
3) Supportive Psychotherapy.
4) Pharmacotherapy.
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