“Unlocking Pleasure: The Surprising Truth Behind the Great Vibrator Myth That Everyone Gets Wrong!”

"Unlocking Pleasure: The Surprising Truth Behind the Great Vibrator Myth That Everyone Gets Wrong!"

Treatments for hysteria also become more varied and extreme. For instance, in the 1850s American physician Silas Weir Mitchell began prescribing the “rest cure”, which confined the patient to bed for weeks or even months on end. While this might not sound too bad, it is worth noting that patients were also forbidden from reading, writing, talking, or engaging their minds in any way, causing many to quickly and inexorably lose their sanity. Such was the case with American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman who, after being prescribed the rest cure by Dr. Mitchell himself, recounted her experiences in the classic 1892 horror short story The Yellow Wallpaper.

But it could always be worse; in extreme cases, women diagnosed with hysteria could be forcibly committed to psychiatric institutions and even subjected to surgical interventions including hysterectomy and clitorectomy – and to learn more about the horrifying history of anti-masturbation measures and discover whether flicking the bean or flogging the dolphin actually does any harm, please check out our previous video Is ‘Choking the Chicken’ Actually Bad For You?

Thankfully, advancements in psychiatry along with the early feminist movement eventually caused female hysteria to fall out of fashion as a legitimate medical diagnosis. However, as late as 1968, the condition was still included in the second edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – AKA the DSM-II. It would not be removed until the publication of the DSM-III in 1980.

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