hysterical

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• “They treated me like I was being hysterical,” she says, and ordered her to stay off of Google and to stop talking to Collins.

• The historical—and hysterical—idea that women’s excessive emotions have profound influences on their bodies, and vice versa, is impressed like a photographic negative beneath today’s image of the attention-seeking, hypochondriac female patient.

• Cook could not be sure whether Lecointe’s paralysis indicated a terminal stage of scurvy or a hysterical reaction.

• Those comics hew toward rather sexist tropes about the hysterical woman.

• I remembered my mother, who’d spent so much time in mental hospitals, psychiatric wards, her whole life cycling between being overmedicated, under-medicated, ignored, treated like a hysterical woman who couldn’t care for herself.

• What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.

• As a former arts teacher, she feels compelled to help the now-hysterical young boy.

• Every night, I speak to the islands of the Caribbean in the language of hysterical storms.

• They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.

• But Robin Williams will, sadly, no longer be sending us into hysterical fits of laughter.

• Madame Lebrun grew a trifle ; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.