Hysteria was the first mental disorder that was referenced to women. The symptoms of hysteria at the time were considered to be lack of sex, anxiety, suffocation,and tremors. Although there were many symptoms they were not limited to this list. Society immediately decided that if women that showed anyone of these symptoms had hysteria with no real medical evidence to back it up. Because the doctors were male during this time, women had no choice but to believe what they had to say. These women then had a label,holding them back from their normal everyday lives. “.. Melampus spoke of the women’s madness as derived from their uterus being poisoned by venomous
Hysteria was the first mental disorder that was referenced to women. The symptoms of hysteria at the time were considered to be lack of sex, anxiety, suffocation,and tremors. Although there were many symptoms they were not limited to this list. Society immediately decided that if women that showed anyone of these symptoms had hysteria with no real medical evidence to back it up. Because the doctors were male during this time, women had no choice but to believe what they had to say. These women then had a label,holding them back from their normal everyday lives. “.. Melampus spoke of the women’s madness as derived from their uterus being poisoned by venomous