Hysteria

It does not begin suddenly. It builds — over months, over years. You function, you smile, you do what is expected of you. And at some point something breaks through. An outburst that startles even you. A reaction completely out of proportion to its trigger. Tears that won't stop. Anger that comes from nowhere. A trembling that takes hold of the entire body. Or a numbness that has no explanation — as if your nervous system has decided to pull the plug.

Psychiatry describes hysterical symptoms as dissociative or conversion disorders — as states in which psychological tension transforms into physical symptoms. And that captures the mechanism. But BodySignal asks further: what is the tension that discharges itself here? What was pressed together for so long that it now explodes? And why did your system find no other way to make itself heard?