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“In fact, the word hysteria comes from the word “hystera,” the Greek word for uterus. In ancient Egypt, scholars thought that women suffered from hysteria because their uterus was out of place, wandering about the abdomen. The treatments all centered around trying to get the uterus back into place. In ancient Greece, physicians adapted this idea, and added that women with anxiety, fatigue, pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and infertility were suffering because they were not married and having children, causing their uterus to wander.”
― Casey Berna, Endometriosis From Harm to Hope: A Chronic Illness Guide