Posted by holymama on January 2, 2006, at 18:45:48 [reposted on January 3, 2006, at 0:19:14 | original URL]
In reply to Re: What is Hysteria?, posted by med_empowered on January 2, 2006, at 18:21:50
This is all true, if you are considering the historical definition of hysteria.
But I think Matt, that what you are asking, is what you suffer from is 'hysteria'? This is the same as me asking: am I suffering from a 'nervous breakdown', when there is no real psychiatric term or diagnosis called 'nervous breakdown'.
We all know, however, what it feels like to be 'hysterical' or to be having a 'nervous breakdown'. No, they are not diagnoses in the DSM. But they are real ways to describe what we are feeling. People have been using these terms for centuries. They describe my expreiences of mental illness as well as they did hundreds of years ago. But no, they are not 'official' DSM diagnoses.
Matt, it seems that you ask a lot of questions about diagnoses. Do you have a copy of the DSM? I think you would find it very useful and interesting. Maybe you could get a copy from the library or even better, order one from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0890420254/drbobsvirte00-20 It has ALL of the psychiatric diagnoses in it that a psychiatrist would use and it makes for some very interesting reading if you are wondering about the span of psychiatric illnesses.~~Autumn~~
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