Rutger Hauer

I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

Dutch Actor

Charles Platt

Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.

English Author

Robert Zubrin

I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.

American Scientist

Meg Rosoff

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

American Writer

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Tennessee Williams

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

American Dramatist

Cybill Shepherd

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

American Actress

V. S. Naipaul

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Trinidadian Novelist

Charles Baudelaire

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

French Poet

Tadashi Yanai

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Japanese Businessman

Hysteria conveys a strong emotional reaction that may seem irrational or exaggerated.

Emotional Impact

Often used to describe frenzied collective reactions, not just individual panic or fear.

Group Behavior

Usually has negative connotations, suggesting reactions are unreasonable or unmanageable.

Negative Connotation

Historically used in psychology to describe a condition no longer widely recognized as a diagnosis.

Psychological Term

Refers to the conversion of mental stress into physical problems, such as trembling or fainting.

Physical Symptoms

Be aware that the term may be viewed as outdated or even offensive in discussing mental illness.

Outdated Usage

 around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women, and in time, when doctors failed to find the one cause of the disease, they thought that these outbreaks were mass hysteria. Why has this idea had such staying power?

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 Children of incarcerees began a movement calling for the United States to atone for this historic injustice. In 1988, the US government officially apologized for the wartime incarceration– admitting it was the catastrophic result of racism, hysteria, and failed political leadership.

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 one of the most innovative thinkers in the history of psychology. An egomaniac who propagated pseudoscientific theories. Well, which is it? He tackled issues medicine refused to address. Freud’s private practice treated women who suffered from what was called hysteria at the time,

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 Austrian soldiers and government officials observed and documented the strange local burial rituals, and their reports became widely publicized. The resulting vampire hysteria got so out of hand that in 1755, the Austrian Empress was forced to dispatch her personal physician.

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 took a science research course at my high school and I didn't really know what I wanted to do so at the advice of my teacher I looked in the news and it's kind of going back to the other talk we heard but I was just really drawn to the media hysteria and fear surrounding the

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 and more than 1,000 people were dead. For all that the virus was rapidly contained, however, there was little that could be done about the alarming news reports carried by cable news channels and the Internet. As bloggers added to the hysteria

How pandemics spread

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 or women with hysteria. We don't think epilepsy is caused by the devil anymore, so that's cool. We constantly change and evolve, the more we understand as a society. And biological sex is on a spectrum. It's not black or white.

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 were looked on with suspicion and fear and with outright hatred simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor. And the hysteria grew and grew