HYSTERIA (ہسٹیریا , دیوانگی )

Hysteria (ہسٹیریا , دیوانگی)

Hysteria is a mental disorder which arises from intense anxiety. The patient loses control over his or her acts and emotions and it is usually accompanied by sudden fits of unconsciousness with emotional break.

It is often due to repressed fight within the person. Disease may occur in both males and females. It is common in young women between fourteen to twenty five years of age. Hysteria is uncommon after the age of forty five years.

Hysteria is an ancient disorder.  Hysteria is derived from a Greek word hysteron, meaning uterus. Osler a famous psychiatrist defines   hysteria as “a disorder chiefly of young women, in which emotional states control the body, leading to distortion of mental, sensory motor and secretary.

Symptoms of Hysteria

A hysterical personality typically displays symptoms like appealing behavior, high level of emotional dependency, friendly friendships, narrow-mindedness, frustration, irregularity and irritability.

During fits, such a person becomes hyper-emotional. He exhibits exaggerated feelings like irritations of crying concern and irritability marked with symptoms like:

Increasing Abdominal limitation

Severe pain and heaviness in the limbs

Tremors

Suffocation and headache

Tightened teeth

Swelling of the neck

Feeling of a foreign body stuck in the throat

Laughing or crying without cause

In severe cases the symptoms may be wild and painful cries, extremely swollen neck, and incomplete loss of awareness, aggressive movements, aggressive and noisy heartbeat and fits.

The hysteria patient usually has a weak self-control desire for love and kindness and has a tendency towards emotional instability. Coma may last for days or weeks. A patient in coma may seem to be in deep sleep but the muscles are not usually relaxed.

Causes of Hysteria

The main cause of hysteria is idleness, sexual cruelty and misused habits of thought. Heredity may also be a cause for hysteria. A nervous family   background and faulty emotional training in the upbringing of the child are also some causes. Fear, worry, depression, mental nervous tension, trauma and prolonged sickness may cause emotional situations.

Hysteria may also be caused due to some situations like death of someone or loss of love.