--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nowadays the former hysteric would be called anxious.
> Hysteria was a name given to people who were easily
> overwhelmed with anxiety due to poor emotional coping
> skills and did not authentically experience their
> emotions. It is still used to today among clinicians
> when discussing patients. It describes a personality
> type very effectively. 

Is it still treated the same way?  :-)

I'm reminded of the mcguffin in the film Buckaroo 
Banzai.  Everyone was running around trying to find 
the Oscillation Overthruster.

Lord John Whorfin:  Where are we going? 
Red Lectroids:  Planet Ten! 
Lord John Whorfin:  When? 
Red Lectroids:  Real soon!

:-)







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