From the uterus, to witchcraft, hypnotism and more, we go through the history of what unexplainable symptoms have been blamed on and how they've been explained through history all the way up to more modern day classifications like Briquette's syndrome, somatoform, conversion, or functional disorders. We tease apart risk factors and other patterns that have been identified to lead to symptoms commonly labelled as ‘hysteria’, and the resulting biases that have carried through into modern medicine towards patients with these types of presentations. This episode is a somewhat lighter, funny change of pace from the pain education heavy start and continues to dive into why hard to treat patients with difficult to explain symptoms have struggled to be taken seriously - since the beginning of time.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Official Intro

00:17 Intro

01:56 Diagnostic Limitations

05:30 Doctor Side

08:57 Patient Side

11:07 Juxtaposed position

15:08 Understanding things given the time

17:31 I don't know comes with caveats

20:27 Diagnosing History

29:55 Scientific Regions

33:36 The Enlightenment

42:12 Unconcious component of the mind

51:39 Same time as Charco - Briquette

01:04:04 Symptoms Briquette starts to recognize

01:09:20 Thurbrandt - end of 1800s

01:10:56 Sigmund Freud

01:14:41 Second WW

01:17:08 Looking closer at the DSM 1

01:25:02 Unintended Consequences

01:31:25 Conversion Disorders

01:35:29 DSM 5

01:42:04 International Classification of Diseases

01:43:30 How to think about this

01:50:35 Disclaimer