Quotes About Hysteria

Love and hysteria are easily mistaken.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

One minute he was moving securely through time and space, in perfect coordination with other people; then, with no warning, he was out of step, was somehow removed from everyone else's sense of time and place, so that the slightest movement, word, facial expression or gesture contained enormous significance. The room filled with coded messages that he could not decode, and he slipped quickly into barely controlled hysteria.

fancy traps to capture a past that had never existed, to create a feeling of solidity for people who lived moment to moment in a fear of death bordering on hysteria.

the air raids failed to trigger the kind of mass hysteria that government officials had predicted.

Some have suggested that in alien abductions we are dealing with some sort of mass psychosis, hysteria, or hallucination (Sagan 1993). But abductions do not resemble mass phenomena (Hall 1995). Abductees are generally individuals who have, at least before being brought in contact with other experiencers for purposes of support, been isolated from people having similar experiences.

Napredek in ?udovito obdobje besne?ega razvoja sta po njegovem ustvarila generacijo duševnih pohabljencev, ki bi bila potrebna nege v zdraviliš?ih. Prinesla sta s seboj množi?no živ?nost, množi?no histerijo, množi?ni dolg?as in množi?no smrt.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

My God, she thought. You scare them when you do that. You're scaring them. We scare all our children to death before they know what fear is, and they think we're playing games with them. We grab at them and yell, I gotcha. And they repay us with shrieks of laughter, and we never consider that it is hysteria. She realized she was praying an insane litany. Please don't let anyone say, I gotcha. Please, God, don't let anyone say, Peekaboo.

While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.

I wanted a song that would touch me, touch my life and theirs. A portuguese song, but not a portuguese. song. A new world song. A song branded with the new world. I thought of the girl who had to sleep with her master and mistress. Her father, the master. Her daughter's father. The father of her daughter's daughter. How many generations. Days that were pages of hysteria. their survival depended on suppressed hysteria.

How many generations? Days that were pages of hysteria. Their survival depended on suppressed hysteria.

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised "better living through chemistry," dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.

MICHAEL E MANN is the bristlecone pine of scientists. Just as removing the bristlecones makes his hockey stick collapse, so removing Mann from the climate conversation would make a lot of the drama and hysteria and sheer unpleasantness disappear.

First she laughed, then she bawled me out and started crying. This was followed by an attack of hysteria with all the trimmings. What a conflict.

It may be said that hysteria is as ignorant of the science of the structure of the nervous system as we ourselves before we have learnt it.

Um trauma teria de ser definido como um acréscimo da excitação no sistema nervoso, que este é incapaz de fazer dissipar-se adequadamente pela reação motora. Um ataque histérico talvez deva ser considerado como uma tentativa de completar a reação ao trauma.

El trabajo de Charcot devolvió primeramente a este tema su dignidad y dio fin a las irónicas sonrisas con las que se acogían las lamentaciones de las pacientes.

No dudo que para el Destino sería más fácil que para mí curarla, pero ya se convencerá usted de que adelantamos mucho si conseguimos transformar su miseria histérica en un infortunio corriente.

In order to understand a hysterical attack, all one has to do is to look for the situation in which the movements in question formed part of an appropriate and expedient action.

All we need to do is to make a slight modification in our description of their determinant of anxiety, in the sense that it is no longer a matter of feeling the want of, or actually losing the object itself, but of losing the object's love. [...] it appears probable that, as a determinant of anxiety, loss of love plays much the same part in hysteria as the threat of castration does in phobias and fear of the super-ego in obsessional neurosis.

The fact that anticathexis has an opposite direction in hysteria and the phobias from what it has in obsessional neurosis—though the distinction is not an absolute one—seems to be significant. It suggests that there is an intimate connection between repression and external anticathexis on the one hand and between regression and internal anticathexis (i.e. alteration of the ego through reaction-formation) on the other.