HYSTERIA – TREATMENT AND CORRECT DIAGNOSIS
Treatment of hysteria is always difficult. It may take some time to arrive at the correct diagnosis and to exclude underlying organic illness.
Sometimes, hospitalisation may be necessary but this may give the hysteric an opportunity to observe those with organic illness, and so the symptoms may become more definite and closer to real illness and further delay proper evaluation.
The underlying inadequate personality of the hysteric makes complete recovery difficult. The aim of treatment should be to restore the person as a functioning unit of society, rather than seeking to fully unravel all the hidden conflicts which have precipitated the illness or remove all the symptoms which have developed.
Too many medical opinions and examinations are only likely to reinforce the symptoms and to create further invalidism. Those treating hysteria should remain non-judgmental and should not react to attempts to manipulate them.
Those of us with an uncompromising view of life may deplore malingering and even hysteria and show this in our attitudes to those exhibiting such symptoms.
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