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Modern Misconception
- Since the mid-1800s, we've gained a deeper understanding of why anorexia develops, but its early associations with hysteria have been difficult to escape
- Anorexia and hysteria are not the same illness
- In a 1982 Life Magazine article, it was claimed that "hysteria has almost disappeared, but if there is an equivalent today it is ANorexia, the psychosomatic disorder of young, middle-class women who won't eat."
- A 1988 article from Harvard scientists still suggested that both illnesses were caused by female cultural stereotypes.
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Anorexia and Hysteria: A Shared History
- Before modern medicine, unexplained women's behaviors and illnesses were diagnosed as hysteria.
- Symptoms of hysteria included fever and physical pain, as well as behaviors that didn't fit female stereotypes of passivity, feebleness, and fragility.
- Mood swings, anxiety, and de...
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Medical Explanations for Psychosomatic Symptoms in Anorexia
- Alexithymia is a personality trait that makes it difficult to identify our feelings, describe what other people are feeling, and to think imaginatively.
- Illness denial is more difficult to find a medical explanation for, but emerging neurological explanations suggest that people with...
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Psychosomatic Disorder
- A psychosomatic disorder is a condition where observed physical symptoms don’t have medical explanations.
- These symptoms are instead attributed to psychological things (e.g., stress, emotions, and personality).
- Many times, we just haven't found medical explanations for them y...
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Separating Anorexia from Hysteria
- Psychiatry asylums played a role in anorexia being recognized as its own medical condition separate from hysteria
- At first, psychiatric institutions were places where people with mental illnesses were looked after, but not treated
- This changed with a mental health reformation...
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