Word: hyperesthesia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bedridden with multiple ailments by the time she reached her forties. Her list of infirmities resembles an-encyclopedia of nervous disorders common to nineteenth-century women: at various points in her life, her condition was called neurasthenia, hysteria, rheumatic gout, suppressed gout, cardiac complications, spinal neurosis, nervous hyperesthesia, and spiritual crisis. Although it never became clear how many of her problems were physical, Alice's condition was at least, in part, a matter of choice. After feeling slighted and neglected throughout a healthy childhood and adolescence, she discovered, during her first breakdown, that her father refused to leave her bedside...
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