What is hysteria, and why were so many women diagnosed with it? - Mark S. Micale

[@onbearfeet]

I had a doctor tell me in the late 2000s that my insomnia was "hysterical" in nature. I looked him dead in the eye and said, "My uterus is exactly where I left it. I check regularly." He had the good grace to be embarrassed by that, but not to take my symptoms seriously.

[@Sonicsis]

Yeah I’m totally being “hysterical”, no reason I went through these hoops to see you doc I just wanted to have tea

[@analyticalhamburger2968]

Such a dark and troubled history of doctors ignoring their patient's symptoms and dismissing them. Especially women. Also, if a placebo effect causes you pain, that is real pain! If your insomnia is caused by emotional imbalance, then, that needs to be treated.

[@analyticalhamburger2968]

@@Sonicsis Has to wait months for an appointment, get a referral, change appointment date due to hospital error, take off two days of work due to this, walk into the doctor's office nervous, etc. Just to get told facts you already knew, told your issues will go away on their own, and get diagnosed with hysteria. Or, get told you're faking it or have no symptoms. Or, get sent away to a psych ward. Or, get misdiagnosed after being dismissed and begging for SOMETHING. Or, get prescribed medicine that actively harms you, or, does more harm than good. You could get prescribed medication that is meant for another condition entirely. All of this stuff has happened to someone at some point in history. And, it has not gotten much better even in the modern day. My hope is that we one day get a better medical system. I wouldn't encourage someone to not go to the doctor when they need it, but, be wary. And, careful what you say. There are also many doctors out there who don't care or don't know what they are talking about. Careful who you trust. I've personally been mistreated by the medical industry several times before. So, I have trust issues with it. Not to mention the pricing of medical stuff in the US.

[@c.lstrife]

I wasn't called "hysterical," but I was accused of being a "drug addict," by the nurses in the E.R when I had issues sleeping. (My cause was Anemia). I hope you're feeling better and I'm sorry that you went through that. I hope you got better help.

[@xavierlucky397]

No he didnt and he doesnt exist lmao

[@catherinedemedici9525]

I find myself very hysterical, that damn wandering uterus of mine..

[@UlasMT]

can a lord be of any help, my lady? help it calm down, maybe?

[@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp]

If you got time for KZbin, then you got time to go get pregnant.

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

​@@UlasMT To everyone in this chat, Jesus is calling you today. Come to him, repent from your sins, bear his cross and live the victorious life

[@IrresistibleWitch]

So that’s why we get cramps 😮

[@AlyssaGeering]

my uterus has ADHD so it never sits still

[@thermalnuclearwar]

that moment when your uterus takes a walk up your arm and causes exhaustion 😔

[@thrillerz2505]

😂😂

[@dawn2941]

I hate it when that happens man 😔😔😔 Any tips for when that happens? 😭😭😭

[@Gardeningismypassion833]

@@dawn2941 catch it duh😂

[@thermalnuclearwar]

@@dawn2941 I find picturing babies helpful. tricks your uterus into thinking it found one

[@MxWh1sp3r]

And then it decides to settle on the palms, how annoying! 😂😂😂

[@GoronTico]

What were they smoking when they came up with the idea that the uterus started wandering around the body?

[@dexobj]

Not as bad as some of the theories people believe and spread nowadays

[@Λεως]

They interpreted period cramps as movement of the uterus through the body.

[@frfras7]

Lmao you are so smart and cool , let’s send you back 3000 thousand years

[@GoronTico]

@@frfras7 hey, remember to smile there are better days to come :)

[@Strohmaiers]

Men. Men were smoking.

[@valentinapaxley4221]

the history of hysteria feels like a drama of stupidity. I am glad modern medical world has advanced this much

[@c.eb.1216]

Kinda sorta... now they call it anxiety and give you drugs instead of looking for physical causes of symptoms.

[@gerryatrix74]

Screaming blue haired karens are not hysterics

[@adano5833]

Yeah I’m glad too, but what I truly understood is that it took the WW1 and 2, and men presenting simptoms of that so called histeria for this matter to be taken seriously. It had to happen to m’en in general for histeria to not be called histeria and for people to change it’s name and take a serious look a the matter.😢 That’s actually really sad.

[@kathy032]

@@adano5833 well, i wish men could experience menstrual cramps and heavy periods, so they know how awful we feel those days.

[@jerichojose]

That's why hysteria and hysterectomy have the same root...learned something new

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

PBS has a KZbin channel “Storied” that goes over interesting things of languages. Some videos are exactly like that - interesting ways words or idioms got their meaning. One of the last I saw was how many idioms and words we use today came from sailors, usually from the era of British empire 1600’s-1800’s. Great stuff

[@WTFreud]

I actually wrote a book called "Why Won't a Hysterectomy Cure Hysteria?" on my experience this very topic.

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

@@WTFreud Good for you. Publishing nowadays can be hard

[@Seamannon]

@@WTFreud That sounds very interesting, I'd love to learn more. I like that title, thanks for the recommendation, I'm gonna check out your channel. :)

[@rebasurma-heine5006]

I was diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder and it was just being a suicidal teen newly homeless and living out of domestic violence shelters… none of my basic needs of food, safety and shelter met so of course I was unwell

[@Asharra12]

That's awful! You can't have a personality disorder as a teenager anyway! Those symptoms must persist until mid-twenties before anyone should be diagnosed with any personality disorder. What an incompetent idiots your medical staff were 🙄

[@Laaash0]

I hope you're doing better 🫂

[@wombat.6652]

I hope things are better for you now. !! Anyone would be suicidal in those conditions!!! It is a normal human response to too much pain. Pain of any sort. It means we need help. Really hope the help you got was actually helpful.

[@smoothrocky1847]

It was easier for them to dismiss than assist. Conditions like IBS and PCOS can follow so I hope you got your needs met and are thriving now.

[@carrienichols-lundqvist7970]

I am so sorry that happened to you. Many hugs❤

[@andieallison6792]

Now if you seek pain relief because of pains related to periods/gynecology you're treated as being overdramatic, or a drug addict.

[@WTFreud]

Because research is sadly lacking into the differences between male and female physiology -- hormones being very different between us. Medical school texts and materials focus to a far greater extent on the male body and so women are mostly treated as small men with the exception of childbearing. In fact, women experience many common issues, such as heart attacks, very differently but their symptoms are dismissed because they are not "textbook".

[@modkip25]

@@WTFreud Misogyny still permeates medicine to this day.

[@NoName-ct4pm]

Or "anxious" 😂 anxiety is the new hysteria

[@andieallison6792]

@@codechartreuse they didn't say the heart FUNCTIONS differently, they said the SYMPTOMS of a heart attack present differently in women than men.

[@afmgreentea]

Or just lose some weight. That will fix everything

[@DoBlue_]

Love how the tone of this video seems so subtly jabbing and aggressive towards the unfairness of the patriarchy, and rightfully so! I’ve been watching TED-ED for a long time and they always approach their topics objectively, regardless of subject matter. This is the first time I’ve seen a video of theirs this caustic and I’m happy to see it in this particular issue. Kudos to writer Mark Micale, director Laura Hodkin, and the brilliant animators for bringing out that silliness and frustration women have felt in silence over history 🙌

[@jonsnow9659]

Very tastefully done as well, TED really is great!

[@SamK-b4t]

Well said

[@alainpannetier2543]

I was looking for science. Not militantism.

[@alexraj9436]

Muh soggy knees

[@jonsnow9659]

@@alexraj9436 XDDDDD

[@somerandomguy___]

This is actually something that was really significant part of culture in modern and pre-modern times in relation to how women were treated. We should be taught this in schools...

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Just like how critical thinking, media literacy, and basic financial budgeting needs to be taught in schools. But that would go against the patriarchal system that suppresses not only women, but the impoverished "omega" males of society. A caste system, a rose by any other name.

[@andieallison6792]

​@@Echo81Rumple83they teach the first two in English/Reading but yall don't pay attention lol

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@andieallison6792maybe schools should teach classes on concentrating and paying attention!

[@gemmeldrakes2758]

​@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Even if they did, some people wouldn't pay attention.

[@gemmeldrakes2758]

​@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Even if they did, some people wouldn't pay attention.

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

You gotta wonder what was going through the heads of people who thought the uterus was an independent life form that wandered around your body and had to smell something to go back in place.

[@ouch1011]

People think of crazy things when they don’t have enough knowledge to explain them. That’s more or less the basis of every known religion.

[@CatonicWeirdo]

Sorry but it was hundreds of years ago and people were not much aware at that time so they can not be blammed...i mean before newton no one actually thought why they were standing straight on the ground ..so please stop spreading negativity about people who died centuries ago.

[@kathy032]

The cat lady stereotype is the subtle way to stigmatize women choosing not to get married. Misogyny is deeply rooted inside modern day society.

[@Lycurgus1982]

And so too is misandry.

[@honestgenz4413]

​@@Lycurgus1982How?

[@Lycurgus1982]

@honestgenz4413 a heavy-handed narrative that women are and have been disadvantaged do to a tyrannical patriarchy.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@Lycurgus1982 That is because it is true. And it is still happening in less advanced civilizations like the American south.

[@kellydalstok8900]

The same goes for the witch hunts in the past.

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

Ooohh! Y'all should do one about how married women in the 40s/50s/60s were lobotomized, drugged, and otherwise medically maltreated and controlled, in order to withstand their unhappy marriages and their lack of access to divorce!

[@ibrav7979]

​@@uanime1shut your bollocks please

[@WTFreud]

Exactly. I have been researching this topic and publishing videos about it on my channel. Women have been abused by the medical profession for centuries. That's why it's SO important to self-advocate. To stand up to the white coats and question what we're being told. Doctors can't be trusted to get it right every time. In fact, 795k in the U.S. alone are disabled or killed as a result of misdiagnosis EVERY YEAR yet less than 1k medical doctors will lose their license each year as a result. Think about all the killer doctors allowed to continue practice. How is that even possible? Arbitration, the appalling drop in autopsy rates, bias (malpractice disproportionately affects women and minorities) and a strong lobbying effort by the AMA are probably strong reasons it has been allowed to continue.

[@j.n.9572]

​@@uanime1"make things up and can whine about" you aren't very literate or pleasant to be around now are ya?

[@TEDEd]

We do in fact have a lobotomies video in the works!

[@ibrav7979]

@@j.n.9572 most definitely a white guy obsessed with Japan from his teens, to whom this all is just theoretical and hypothetical with no real stakes

[@avneeshiyat]

And there are still men who say that women fake period pain

[@rugbystories3344]

But women do fake a lot of things 😂

[@FAIRYGIRL911]

​@@rugbystories3344 like their care for you, I'm sure

[@avneeshiyat]

@@rugbystories3344 that’s because they’re so embarrassed on behalf of men that they want it to be over

[@katzea.a7880]

@@rugbystories3344 Like avnee said, consider the etiology of the situation instead of just the present situation itself. Every single one of us have our defensive reasons to create lies and to act upon them

[@rugbystories3344]

@@katzea.a7880 no justification for cultivating bad behaviors in that case even thieves and r*p*sts have excuses too 🤣

[@bakerkawesa]

I'm surprised it was removed from the DSM as late as 1980.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Guess the counter-counter culture of the far, religious right neglected to codify in their pathetic quest in maintain patriarchal dogma :/

[@ef5686]

dont be. women got the right to vote in Switzerland in 1980 😲

[@sepehr20626]

I was also thinking wtf when I heard that 😮

[@nbeutler1134]

@@sepehr20626 does seem crazy… then I remember that the civil rights act was passed only 16 years prior to that date…

[@foolishmortal6590]

Now we’ve got Functional Neurological Disorder to fill that gap 🙃

[@ZNLBailey]

Oh boy, this comment sections gonna be great.

[@hyeongjulee3714]

CHAOS REIGNS

[@inconceivabledark]

yay. ​@@hyeongjulee3714

[@factanonverba8082]

Mom! Give me the popcorn now!

[@konstantin.v]

For a good reason! 😂

[@kristeinsalmath1959]

Let's go boys!!!.

[@mousethehuman7179]

don't forget: women still face sexism and medical neglect in medicine - wait longer for diagnoses, are more often misdiagnosed, with symptoms more likely to be seen as psychosomatic, the different presentation of illnesses and disorders still under researched and medicine still less tested for the effects on female bodies

[@erincrow7084]

And don't think just because you have a female provider you are home free. Some of the worst gender medical bias I have had were from other women.

[@c.eb.1216]

I remember every time I go to the doctor.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@erincrow7084 Like our GP who told my daughter that everyone suffers from headaches from time to time. She was prescribed drugs for migraines only after I said that she had headaches quite often and she had trouble concentrating in school and was missing school because of them. I was amazed to hear from one of the doctor’s colleagues that she was suffering from migraines herself.

[@LarryWater]

@erincrow7084 In my experience, female doctors are more caring than male doctors.

[@OllieOxyn]

@@LarryWater generally, yes, however it absolutely depends on the doctor. I have had all female doctors and about 50% actually cared enough to listen to me. It also depends on what you present as. Do you present as male (just guessing from your username)? If so, then you are a lot less likely to face the same issues women do.

[@bebelwlov]

It seems that even now doctors don't understand the woman's body very well. It's sad.

[@78town]

Society says there's no such thing as a woman's body now lol It's all about what you identify with. so there's that.

[@XavierAway]

That isn’t the truth at all, we know about as much about women’s bodies as men’s bodies. There is no discrepancy of detail between the sexes in modern science.

[@bebelwlov]

@@XavierAway And I really wrote it wrongly, I didn't mean to say that was the truth, I just wanted to share my point of view. I'll edit my comment, thank tou.

[@FizzySplash217]

@@XavierAway That isn't true. Historically, many basic neuroscience studies have been done primarily on male animals, tissues, or cells, leading to gaps in our understanding of female biology. You watched the same video I did, don't act like there hasn't been a difference throughout history.

[@XavierAway]

@@FizzySplash217 great, and why does any of that mean we know less about women specifically? 99% of us is the same, you don't need to have a male and female copy of a cell to know how it works. The idea women have been under researched in any sense is laughable.

[@cozmicdoodles7167]

So basically if a women felt anything it was "hysteria" or "witch"...

[@thisisntallowed9560]

Hysteria is a term used to gaslight women

[@bingusbongus9807]

gaslighting and gatekeeping the poor girlbosses :(

[@cocopus]

Pretty purr 💄💅💕 of them if you ask me

[@BWater-yq3jx]

Especially the hysterical ones.

[@hsugraduation2103]

I have seen MANY men get hysterical as much or more than women.

[@pssurvivor]

the animations are hysterical!

[@juleswifey6003]

😅

[@elvirak8846]

~~Hopefully it wouldn't be tagged as 18+!~~

[@yolololswaag1208]

the background music at certain times adds to it 💀

[@haruk2312]

Even now, when doctors aren't able to diagnose, they will tell women that " Its all in your head" rather than admitting they are incompetent.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Back when I was a kid, I thought "Hysteria" is a place of laughter

[@rocks4brainzz]

I did too! It’s probably because laughter is linked in some ways to uncontrollability and uncontrollability is linked to hysteria

[@isadoraroque8691]

“Hysterical”

[@EclipseOverSalem]

If I ever open a comedy club I'll call it hysteria

[@SophiG-x7n]

If i was born in the 1800 i prly wouldve been burned ngl

[@tinyteeth4777]

most places stopped burning people in the late 1500s and early 1600s. Spain is an exception, but they were having the inquisition.

[@bagel1612]

Mee too girlie, we would've been lobotomized in the mid 20th century

[@kazukawasaki97]

I didn't know burning people was a thing that too for suspected practice of witchcraft,g man thats straight up painful,to imagine just a lot of people cheering and cursing while you are hooked to a beam helpless hopelessly and slowing burning,its straight up cruel 😥

[@biscaynesupercars]

@@bagel1612now they do it with head meds and antidepressants

[@Xxsorafan]

Same let’s all dance around in the woods

[@ishkir1877]

Guess what else used to get diagnosed as hysteria? Fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. 🙃

[@Monolith101]

Seeing this, I feel like doctors should be way more empathetic and attentive to their patients' needs. I have read a lot on patients' bad experiences with doctors, where the usual response is often dismissal of concerning symptoms.

[@konstantin.v]

That is not doctors fault. It's just that the modern medicine still has limited abilities to deal with many concerns that a patient might have 🤷‍♂️

[@HerMi.T]

@@konstantin.v yeah, that's why it is definitely the doctor's fault. You should know your limitations too.

[@konstantin.v]

@@HerMi.T , what do you want a doctor to do in such cases? Give you a medal? 😊

[@Monolith101]

@@HerMi.T Probably a troll.

[@konstantin.v]

@@Monolith101 , denial requires much less brainpower. That's what makes it so enticing to some 😊

[@Ubrzani]

"The uterus could dislodge and move throughout the body..." Hahahahaha, DAFUQ?! 🤣

[@casterivo]

That would hurt so bad it makes sense for the conditions

[@Kodack-ki2im]

Yeah regardless of gender, doctors shouldn't dismiss patients pain and should treat them to alleviate suffering. It's messed up that people that don't need painkillers sometimes get them in abundance, while some people in actual pain do not.

[@uanime1]

"doctors shouldn't dismiss patients pain and should treat them to alleviate suffering." Treat them with what? Throughout most of human history most cures didn't work because no one had any way of testing their reliability.

[@j.n.9572]

​@@uanime1but they did have a lot of ways to test reliabilitys? There are a lot of books and other sources of things that worked pretty well even in ancient greece that they had to test. This also kind of works with poison but just in the other direction.

[@HappyGick]

​@@uanime1 By doing their job and actually bothering to LISTEN in order to give a correct diagnosis.

[@uanime1]

@@HappyGick "By doing their job and actually bothering to LISTEN in order to give a correct diagnosis." Again how were they going to do this when the correct diagnosis at the time was bloodletting?

[@MishaMikhailovich]

@uanime1 it seems like you’re purposely being obtuse. they meant doctors TODAY shouldn’t dismiss patients, hence the use of “painkillers” it’s a pretty valid statement, so i’m not sure why you feel the need to be a contrarian.

[@jessicajayes8326]

Hysteria aka not being treated as a person disease!

[@jonathan.gasser]

Just a little comment - I'd be highly surprised if medical sexism was a purely western thing. I'm pretty sure all cultures worldwide had or still have these same biases.

[@5Psychology-Facts]

Thank you for creating such a supportive and informative community around psychology. It’s a breath of fresh air

[@WTFreud]

This is a great explanation of hysteria, but don't become complacent. Hysteria is actually alive and well in DSM V as Functional Neurological System Disorder. Countless women--many with multi-system autoimmune diseases--are still having symptoms of physical ailments dismissed under this umbrella term or its predecessor, Conversion Disorder, if their doctor cannot diagnose them. Imagine that: a doctor who doesn't know the answer is able to blame the patient's mind rather than their own ignorance. As many as 15% of patients seeking care in neurology clinics are given mental illness diagnoses or referred for psychiatric care---and no evaluation by a mental health professional is required. Depending on the illness, up to 50% of patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Lyme Disease and Lupus will also be diagnosed with a psychiatric ailment with roots in hysteria. People's lives are endangered by this practice. And once a mental illness diagnosis is made, it's difficult to have physical symptoms taken seriously ever again, discouraging patients from seeking further care. Care they desperately need. According to a report by Johns Hopkins, doctors are literally disabling and killing patients via misdiagnosis to the tune of 795k per year, yet less than 1k will have their license revoked. That leaves a lot of incompetent physicians in practice. It's mindboggling how freely medical doctors will question a patient's sanity when it's the medical profession that is clearly afflicted. The onus is on patients to get informed and advocate for yourself. You cannot trust a doctor to get it right unless you push them to think then think again before diagnosing and ALWAYS get a second, third or eighth opinion. In my own experience, out of 9 physicians, only one took a hot second to consider I might have an actual sickness rather than some whackadoo psychiatric affliction. And I was one of the LUCKY ones: I had great insurance, transportation, and no immediately life-threatening symptoms. That was a horrible experience, making what was already a bad time so much worse. If I didn't need a shrink beforehand, I certainly did once the medical professional played head games with what turned out to be myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune condition.

[@MissBlueEyeliner]

You can add ME/CFS to that list of things being misdiagnosed as psychosomatic illnesses. I have seen 15 specialists now and after 17 years of suffering I have a formal diagnosis but not before a psychiatrist put me through the ringer, made me believe that my disability is my fault. I had “mild” ME when I met him. I couldn’t work, slept about 12 hours a day but had some independence. When he was through with me I was “severe”. Bed bound and sleeping 18 hours+ a day. I haven’t dealt with him in a few years and I’m back around “moderate-severe” now. The most of the damage is irreversible. ME/CFS is what Long Covid is and it has only been officially acknowledged as a physiological disease since 2021. _Countless_ people have died excruciating deaths, alone in dark rooms without even being able to tolerate the touch of a loved one. All because a group of psychiatrists decided a few decades back that it was easier to say “it’s in their heads” than admit that they didn’t understand what was happening physiologically and that it would take a lot of work to figure it out. Sorry, I know my rage is showing. I’m typing this from bed at the age of 34 having watched the past 9 years pass me by from this same spot.

[@chinchilla3050]

@@MissBlueEyelinerI am so sorry to hear these experiences from the both of you, hearing about how much malpractice and ignorance runs rampant in especially women’s healthcare is scary. You have the right to feel so angry, I don’t blame you at all and I understand where you’re coming from; you are not crazy for feeling the way you are, it must be so demeaning to be ignored constantly by people who are supposed to be professionals! I’m so sorry it took you two so long to get diagnosed :( I hope things get better and you’ve found a great doctor who will actually listen to your concerns. Best wishes to you 🩷🩷

[@Asharra12]

Also anxiety, borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder to name a few more that far more women than men are diagnosed with and very regularly misdiagnosed with because they are not acting how people think they should.

[@catbatrat1760]

breadcrumb comment since this sounds like good advice

[@axehead45]

Can you imagine how scary it would be if your uterus could actually move around

[@nightttman4990]

up and down right and left 😭😭😭😭

[@KKnighton]

the pain 😭😭😭😭

[@floralfemme4700]

I can understand why people who have been marginalized are more likely to distrust hospitals. For some people: You could either get pathologized or validated and helped by a medical professional?

[@Luke-xt5ql]

POV men’s comprehension of women.

[@rugbystories3344]

Why should we comprehend you guys 😂😂 like for what purpose

[@tomookay]

@@rugbystories3344 ...so that we don't repeat the history in this video maybe??

[@rugbystories3344]

@@tomookay 🤣🤣🤣 the world was tough for everyone 1000 years ago Karen 🤣, atlest women and children did not have to go and fight in war or hunt beasts for food, and in today's world don't forget it's the "partichriachy" that's keeping your life cormfatable

[@PoojaKumari-ty6sh]

​@@rugbystories3344 Don't talk sh*t like u r providing for a whole town's worth of women and children...ur level of narcissism clearly is evident of how much comfort the women & children around u including ur mother is getting.

[@AmbrosiaDreamWeaver]

@@rugbystories3344 So you honestly don't think that you should try to comprehend the other HALF of humanity? Your grandmothers mothers sisters wives daughters nieces and friends? You can't see any possible benefits to that? For humanity in general? Really?

[@ebenezeryeboah7090]

It is shocking how people once believed that the uterus wandered around the body, but in the year 2200, the world will be shocked that billionaires died from cancer.

[@ouch1011]

Or that we elected Trump

[@Burner-account-TFirst]

If we can even get that far

[@Xxsorafan]

Not enough billionaires tbh

[@Sunflowersarepretty]

Thank Goodness i wasn't born in the past. Even though there's still this medical bias against women as most of the research has been conducted on men and women's symptoms are dismissed most of the times Nothing worse than being isolated or burnéd at stake because you have "hysteria" or you're possesséd by the devíl.

[@taeliantalittia612]

The story of Hysteria itself is just *_HYSTERICAL_*

[@tortul1462]

It could've been "hersteria"

[@polaquinha]

And "Histeria", for the male version that Freud proposed ("shell shock")

[@emilymonahan5232]

you are funny

[@Bardiful-being]

2:28 me on my way to become a midwife:

[@dipteeshukla7]

1:05 lol so basically if you tried to break the patriarchy, you are hysterical.

[@rugbystories3344]

See what I always ask myself is if you are so strong and equal to the men how did the patriarchy become a thing then 😂😂😂

[@dipteeshukla7]

@@rugbystories3344 women are biologically weaker than men; due to which men started dominating initially in areas which require more physical strength which isnt wrong. Eventually, a notion was conceived that women shouldnt interfere in state matters, powers & only look after raising children. This gave rise to 'patriarchy'.

[@Itz_Zagha]

​​@@rugbystories3344 Patriarch is not just about physical abilities. Women had to do a lobotomy if they were unhappy in the 20th century. Women were burn and drowned in the medieval europe for basically anything. Women were considered "something between an animal and a man" in ancient Greek. Women were prohibited to study not so long ago, and still are in many places. Patriarch is not just about physical abilities. Women in Afghanistan are prohibited to speak in public. Does it have something to do with physical abilities? We don't hate men or want to have the same physical capacities that they have, but women were (and in a lot of places still are) treated as animals/objects.

[@rugbystories3344]

@@Itz_Zagha the world was diffcult for everyone 500 years ago karen, atleast your kind and children did not have to go to war and hunt beasts for food, and if you think marriage is oppressive then don't get married that simple let the ones who wants to marry do there thing and those who already are

[@Itz_Zagha]

@@rugbystories3344 Ok? Go to war is surely an horrible thing, but being beat up to death because your meal was not tasty enough is also a bad thing. I don't think that marriage is oppressive and I do want to marry someday, I said that marriage CAN be oppressive sometimes. Or do you think that it is fair someone be not allowed to speak just because of their gender? (Btw, you said "500 years ago", a time were surely everything was way worse, but so many horrible things happen nowadays with women just because they're women. Btw, I'm not saying that men don't suffer or anything, everyone suffers.)

[@sorchaOtwo]

It's beyond time for medicine to properly treat women. Medicine needs to listen without prejudice from their male slanted education and discard the those predjudices to truly help female patients.

[@rune2O2O]

Yep this is what happens when men don't allow women to become doctors. so much misinformation for TOO LONG.

[@rhinosaur9636]

This is a good video, but I feel like the fact that women suffer more commonly from autoimmune disorders would’ve been a good addition here. There’s a lot of things that statistically affect women more often than men, and without the knowledge of what an immune system is, I can see why the ancient Greeks came to the conclusion it was something physically different with women’s bodies They still weren’t right of course

[@sundus928]

ever wonder why there's so much stigma surrounding women's health issues? I saw a post somewhere that says that all those women who were persecuted as witches , could have specialised in such fields of science and medicine and all of that is gone. Women not being allowed for education is another factor. This stigma is still prevelant these days. I have autoimmune disease and mental illnesses, my mother and I have ovarian cysts and yet we just have to move on with life coz men don't usually suffer from these illnesses. We now have gathered space to be equally capable as men but now we need to look into ourselves and what we had been neglecting for years. We end up putting up a masculine shield to survive in this world but this society was never built for us. The working hours were made for the head of the household , not women.

[@jdrn7869]

I'm sorry, I know this is a serious topic but the animations is quite hilarious 😅

[@casterivo]

True

[@samanthac.349]

My new doctor and I were talking about this very problem of dismissing women’s health issues the other day when I explained to her about my medical history and medical mistreatment over the years. She understood because she had a physical condition that affected her digestive system as a teen, and it was initially written off as an eating (psychological) disorder. Turns out, she had Crohn’s disease.

[@johnsbirthdayinapril4197]

Great video. It has been a blight on history, that controlling class assuming that the issue is other peoples inferiority, rather than seeking the truth! I have a question, every study I have seen shows that women are more likely to have anxiety and depression than men? Why is that? Is it men are less likely to seek help/have it reported, is it because of different physiology, cultural, or other?

[@haruk2312]

Patriarchy, dude. The oppressed class(I.e., women) will have more stress.

[@johnsbirthdayinapril4197]

@@haruk2312 Interesting, what about today, in modern states? I wouldn't say women are being oppressed in America. I am not saying things are perfect, not all things are equal, but nowadays there plenty of cases where women actually have advantage on men, yet the statistic remains? Denmark is considered to be one of the best countries in handling gender equality, yet more women deal with stress, anxiety, and depression then men?

[@kathy032]

​@@johnsbirthdayinapril4197 women having to still choose between work or motherhood says a lot about our modern day society. If we complain about it, we're "overreacting"

[@johnsbirthdayinapril4197]

@@kathy032 Thank you, I think that is definitely part of it! A number of my friends are wrestling with this now, they want to have kids and they want to raise them themselves, but they love their profession and/or their family depends on that income. It is a hard choice and often an unfair one.

[@kathy032]

@@johnsbirthdayinapril4197 Certainly it is. Thank you for sharing this :)

[@veldawells2839]

Ooh, maybe in 100 years time specialists/doctors etc might figure out what ME/CFS is, instead of saying it is all in the mind, since the majority of young adults and women suffer from this. And, just maybe it's not the uterus wondering around the women's body causing fatigue, pain, headaches, nausea etc! It's actually the mitochondria. Brilliant intellectually video. Great subject, and there is always something you learn every day.

[@Kokozaftran]

Hahaha a cat lady 😂 Very subtle, ted ed!

[@KKnighton]

I love how you named all my symptoms 😭😭

[@wanderlander.abroad]

The freaking men clapping at 0:50 just send me 🤣😂🤣😂 great video!

[@BWater-yq3jx]

So you were laughing hysterically?

[@wanderlander.abroad]

@@BWater-yq3jx exactly 🤪

[@frejglass]

for me it was this part 1:08

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

My mother suffered agonising pain with gall stones and then kidney stones. That was in the 1970s in England. The posh GP would turn up stinking of whisky prescribe painkillers then go away thus went on for years, with mum crying in pain our dad and for us kids it was very distressing every time she had an episode. Years later, after mum had almost died and spent weeks in hospital after surgery, I read her medical notes, they said she suffered from 'nervous hysteria'! I wish I could go back in time because that drunken waste of space overpaid doctor would be sorry he decided to ever be in that profession . No doubt he was paid more for home visits, and the driver must have known he was a drunk. Thats not so long ago, that they actually labelled women in that disgraceful backward way. Sadly I do think that idea still lingers in the medical arena about women, just a bit. I have found women doctors just as dismissive if not more so than male doctors, when it comes to seeking medical treatment and advice. I suspect they use anxiety these days instead of hysteria though.

[@bearathon4041]

Hey Ted ed I know that western society has always been misogynistic like with the “hysteria” period. But what about eastern cultures? Like Iran, China, Asia, etc? Has something similar happened there?

[@uanime1]

They won't tell you because they're only interested in bashing western culture.

[@totalfree8740]

Did they even talk about the east in any video

[@pai64]

​@@totalfree8740 yeah one time they talked about china's old medicine

[@narraliveproject2576]

In China, probably it thought as Yin and chi imbalance stuff

[@MeikamiB]

I actually would love to see that as a contrast point. How were "women's issues" viewed in Asia, indigenous communities, and the global south?

[@skylarishy]

Nowadays it's called bpd 🤷‍♀️ not bashing the validity of the diagnosis but genuinely so many women with adhd, autism, c/ptsd and other chronic mental or physical illnesses are dismissed by doctors who just slap women they find difficult (hysterical) with this diagnosis. Its still happening yall

[@deeRay7292]

The root causes of hysteria were never addressed, now we just call it stress. The root causes are still ignored.

[@WTFreud]

Historically, the root "causes" of hysteria were men wanting to get laid more and women going "meh"... I didn't even make that up...

[@adrianblake8876]

Hysteria, as ancient greeks understood it as a malady of the womb, caused by a lack of pregnacy, still exists in the medical guidebook. It has just been rebranded as PMS...

[@geneie6050]

As someone with pmdd I agree it is a real thing not as the symptoms described by hysteria tho.

[@foolishmortal6590]

Nah, it’s been rebranded as Functional Neurological Disorder. Anxiety is a close second.

[@MosukaDreamer]

Women's medicine is still pretty far behind. If you have something chronic gynecologists won't take you seriously.

[@konstantin.v]

_Women most affected_ (c) 😂

[@gemmeldrakes2758]

@@konstantin.v Yes. Because it is usually women who go to a gynecologist.

[@WTFreud]

@@konstantin.v In medicine, bias controls who gets taken seriously. Women and minorities are at the back of the line.

[@blueman-z1m]

Wtf is women's medicine

[@katzea.a7880]

@@konstantin.v Of course they're the most affected in this case, what do you think the population that requires gynecological assistance looks like?

[@ashleyingalsbe2583]

Ah! just in time for my Yellow Wallpaper unit. Thank you, TED-Ed!

[@acs4872]

Damn, 1:47 I spit out the coffee when I saw in the video the Cat Lady with hysteria....LOL!!!!

[@casterivo]

Why is it funny

[@apollodavis4090]

childless cat ladies​@@casterivo

[@illuminati7767]

@@casterivo that's art imitating life now xD

[@thetrison]

Someone send this to JD. Vance and Sam Alito.

[@ouch1011]

They don’t believe in science/reality, so there’s no point.

[@jacob-4595]

2:21 Chappel Roan writing her first album, colorized

[@Amanda-xf4ix]

THATS SO POWERFUL

[@mamta_roy]

Thanks for bringing this detail 😧 never knew that women been through this in the early centuries

[@user-et1ht9fx2k]

Nice to have a word and be done with the diagnosis fast. In our times the magic diagnosis is called 'stress' and it's being diagnosed for both female and male.

[@FioreCiliegia]

Or “lose weight” especially for those who aren’t even overweight

[@arlarl5122]

Anxiety. Everyone has stress. No one is treated for stress. Anxiety disorder diagnoses are the new fad. Over treated and medicated with medicines which don’t really address anxiety like SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs. Big pharmaceutical and modernized/legitimized/artificially validated psychiatry have become over-prominent and glorified so anyone can take a pill without stigmatization and certain fields of medicine are no longer looked at as quackery - even though psychiatric care doesn’t actually cure or hardly even benefits the conditions people have been conditioned to have faith that it treats. At least you don’t get locked in asylums anymore for having emotional problems.

[@adrianblake8876]

It's called PMS and is very still women specific...

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

i have to say, the roman theory isn't particularly illogical, or even sexist: not coming for a long time can definitely sour your mood, for both sexes. and the idea of "female semn'" is actually gender-egalitarian!

[@shrimplysuperior]

Finally, a proper counter to "Nobody had depression or anxiety when I was growing up!" besides "ok boomer"

[@cjstar01jones17]

2:26 it might not have **fixed** the problem but I’m sure it calmed them down just a little.

[@haurinori]

I was born in the right generation.

[@indigodeluxe]

"My uterus wandered around so much it's practically absent" - Abigail Thorn

[@opwave79]

Welcome to the HIStory of medicine.

[@عبدالعزيزألأزرق-و5ي]

Stupendous animation

[@ipsygypsy16]

Across the ocean of Time, place & civilization;warring tribes, arch nemeses, political rivals, & religious enemies have presented One unified front. Their obsession over the woman's body, matched with their ignorance about it.

[@RedunDant-j6k]

This is what it feels like when you have ptsd and show anxiety. There really is nothing new under the sun. We call things we don't understand things we don't comprehend and then pretend what we don't understand is right, we just dont get how. Saying 'I don't know' must be a crime.

[@jameskeating4719]

The uterus is the portal for all human existence

[@theplague5803]

Man i hate it when my small town gets mass uterus and freaks out acting like the sun is moving or whatever

[@tacioo1]

Unfortunately, psychological problems are still not taken seriously!

[@tokoniakosubo6154]

this is a very beautiful video

[@rugbystories3344]

Get married lady or else you will be surprised you are 30 no man wants you and suddenly you are the hysterical cat lady 😂

[@LeprosuGnome]

The animation was so funny 🤣🤣

[@samaha261]

Is is the same as "having poor nerves"? This term used to puzzle me when reading classic literature.

[@markmuller7962]

And there's still tens of millions of magical thinking people in the US

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Doctors in centuries past knew little about female ailments as their general medical knowledge was limited at best. Look at how long bloodletting and purging was acceptable medical practice until it was realized how ineffective it was in most cases.

[@syaorandoter123]

Lol the tomato throw at Sigmund Freud 4:12

[@cinemanuggets24]

When I was in high school, the general knowledge among my peers was that hysteria was a condition that girls suffered when they had an immense love that wasn't being reciprocated

[@jaimepujol5507]

I'm surprised that they didn't mention in the video that vibrators were invented to treat hysteria.

[@Itz_Zagha]

REAL

[@gerryatrix74]

There's a counterargument that excessive use of those devices causes hysteria. Think about that next time you encounter a karen losing it

[@pablolevin9216]

And Hysteria has a successor, BPD. Just look at all of the autistic women, women with ptsd, among other conditions, that are diagnosed with BPD to dehumanize them.

[@lowenzahn3976]

Almost all teenage girls self-diagnose themselves with BPD, autism, PTSD and DID via TikTok videos and Discord nowadays. They literally want to have these disorders as a fashion statement.

[@emily-rb5dk]

​@@lowenzahn3976I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder for 10 years because my old office didn't have anyone qualified diagnose me. My new office has diagnosed me with adhd and ptsd. Mental illness is not a fashion statement. Symptoms present differently in girls/women so now with modern technology more and more women are realizing "Oh hey that sounds like me maybe I'm not making it all up and my doctor was wrong". Now doctors are finally starting to listen.

[@emily-rb5dk]

Can confirm. I was diagnosed as bipolar and even though no bipolar medicine helped and I brought up adhd they said it was just in my head and even if I did have it there's nothing they could do about it. Now I finally have a diagnosis. Adhd. I was prescribed almost a dozen of different medications over the years all because some unqualified man made a guess.

[@BWater-yq3jx]

So you're saying a BPD diagnosis is dehumanizing? What about for someone who actually has BPD? Are they less than human, because they have it?

[@skylarishy]

​@@BWater-yq3jx what's dehumanizing about the diagnosis is when it's used to dismiss women's complex chronic issues. Obviously there are people that find the diagnosis and treatment helpful because everyone is complex and different but there is an undeniable stigma in the field of psychiatry and in society in general towards cluster b personality disorders and for BPD that's specifically against women, especially women who are deemed difficult because of their chronic illnesses which is often more than just BPD. Even if they do have BPD, patients with the diagnosis are less likely to be taken seriously even though research suggests HIGH comorbidity of depression, PTSD, audhd and other chronic illnesses. Stigma and discrimination is what makes the diagnosis dehumanizing, not the illness itself.

[@EmnM2010]

I can kind of understand how it's taken humanity so long to get here. Male reproductive anatomy is all just out there, easy to examine and manipulate and diagnose and watch in action. Until recently, the only to get a similar experience with female reproductive anatomy was either on a dissection table or cutting live people apart *for science*. Let alone ultrasounds that allow us to see what actually goes on inside a uterus in real time. Add to that mow much more complex the female system is - different chemical cocktails always releasing, linings shedding, muscles contracting, polyps developing, etc. - and its really no wonder the womb is still a terrifying mystery. But I DO find it fascinating that the Greek idea of the wandering uterus wrecking the body is pretty close to our modern understanding of hormonal flux. Their awful guestimate was sorta close! XD

[@lucasfinch6675]

hate that doctors often treat bpd as like the modern hysteria

[@FrancT-]

Hysteria is one of my favorite Muse songs😊

[@kangkana5744]

My favorite narrator

[@mecahhannah]

Awesome as always thanks ❤

[@Mk-gk3wv]

4:09) OH, SH%T! HERE HE COOOMES!

[@karamelly1597]

1:46 unmarried women….then there’s the cat. 😂

[@edwinlin8846]

JD Vance would love the discussion. "Childless Cat Ladies".

[@tr0picknowledge]

They don’t call it hysteria as much today.. they just misdiagnose women with the depression x anxiety combo and shove SSRIs at them and see what sticks (what keeps them placated and paying). If they’re feeling spicy, they’ll misdiagnose women with BPD (it exists, but a lot of women go on to learn it wasn’t BPD they were experiencing and that they were being medicated for a condition they did not have, thus thinning resources for those who DO suffer from these conditions). Anything for a dollar, I guess.

[@urivygrows13]

this is one of the best ted-eds ever fight me

[@konstantin.v]

🤛😂

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

the term "shellshock" coined as a "more masculine" alternative for "hysteria", it was coined because it was most often seen in soldiers who experienced heavy shelling ot was actually considered as a weakness and a mark of shame st first

[@isabelll149]

the romans actually were the first people that said that what we really needed was a ✨FEMININOMENON✨

[@leonardchurch9048]

Look at how much we understand each other! (Don't stigmatize a single group for it ffs!)

[@creatureris]

11/10 animation!

[@edward.h2318]

It's For the Best To Act Each other As Humans in Difference, Thus It shall Be Fair Enough,: Just To Practice Fairness; And It Does Take Some action Bundled Into Time.

[@hotsoup8892]

Thank you for this really helpful and informative video! I appreciate the effort you spend on each quality videos really much, and keep up the good work!

[@ssm188]

Thank you for making this!😊