Quotes About Hysteric

Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

When the hysteric saw what the suffragists had done--the way that en masse they'd turned starvation onto its side--she must have been suprised. Her shock must have brought her close to speech.

He thought I was a modern-day version of Freud's female hysteric, experiencing what's known as conversion disorder. This is a condition in which a person's anxiety is "converted" into neurologic conditions such as paralysis, balance issues, incontinence, blindness, deafness, tremors, or seizures. The symptoms are often temporary and tend to be related (sometimes symbolically) to the psychological stressor at its root.

Flossie's moments of clear-mindedness are few and far between, with or without the laudanum. Your aunt is a hysteric, unfortunately.