Body: | The case of "Deferred" (Hysteria, sickness, anxiety, depression triggered
by a delay in her wedding.)
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The case of
"Deferred"
(Hysteria, sickness, anxiety, depression)
Hysteria
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The case of "Deferred"
Biopsychiatric labels DSM-5
Hysteria, anxiety, depression
Checklist Behaviours DSM-7
Selfishness, uncontentment, anxiety, depression, duty shirking
Insights MMPI-7
Quick Pick EDS-7.1
Complaints: I feel Unhappy
Self-disablement EDS-7.2
Duty shirking, making herself sickly, dependent
Chemical imbalance EDS-7.3
No. Never ingested opium. Although before the era of prescribed psychiatric drugs (1950's) which create chemical imbalances in the brain, at this point in history Opium was the only drug widely used to create chemical imbalances in the brains of the insane.
Benefits EDS-7.4
Attention seeking, Pride, Praise, Honour, Fame: EDS-7.4.3
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4
Sympathy: EDS-7.4.5
Control over others: EDS-7.4.6
Victimhood: EDS-7.4.13
Monetary EDS-7.5
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Annoyance Scale EDS-7.6
Low
Diagnostic Laws EDS-7.7
Law of Narcissistic Behaviour Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Law of Derivative Personal Benefit (DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB
Law of Manipulative Rhetorical Malingering (MRM) EDS-7.7.9.MRM
Determine the Problem
Unhappy her wedding was deferred
Ask a Child
EDS-7.7.12.PMO
5 years later EDS-7.7.LPT
The Case of "Deferred"
Robert Brudenell Carter, 1853 AD: An engaged woman makes herself sickly,
depressed and anxious when her wedding day was delayed for years. She
suddenly became psychotic the day she learned of her younger sister's
imminent wedding.
Miss A-, aged 25, a resident in London, had been engaged for several
years, and had suffered, both in health and spirits, from the continued
postponement of her marriage. She went to visit some country friends, in
whose society she was able to forget her cares and to regain her strength,
so that she came back to town much better than she had left it, and,
indeed, in a state of perfect health. But during her absence from home, a
younger sister had accepted a matrimonial offer, the fulfillment of which
was arranged to take place very speedily. On her return, Miss A- found
the intended bridegroom staying in her mother's house; and thus had her
sister's prospects of immediate happiness suddenly placed before her, to be
mentally contrasted with her own disappointments and anxiety. She had only
been about an hour in a railway carriage [she had just completed a 1 hour
trip and was now home], but expressed herself as being tired by her
journey, and sat in silence, apart from the rest of the family group,
dwelling upon the conflicting emotions called up by the scene before her.
After doing so for about an hour, she rose from her seat, saying that she
felt poorly, and, making a great effort at self-command, she tried to leave
the room, but was stopped by an hysteric paroxysm [wild and physical
outburst of emotion] before this object could be accomplished. It was not
very violent, for, after a short period of sobbing and irregular movements,
a copious flow of tears took place; and being then laid upon a bed, she
soon cried herself to sleep. The next morning she did not feel anything
amiss, and had not lost any of the benefits which had accrued to her from
change of air and scene. (On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria,
Robert Brudenell Carter, 1853 AD, p 31)
Discussion:
This is a classic case of hysteria. She was unhappy with her life situation
and had actually made herself sickly, depressed and anxious for quite a
period of time. Her psychotic fit on the floor with "epileptic-like" body
movements were all behaviour choices. Had this behaviour continued for more
than a few days, she would have been taken to an asylum.
Given her history of pouting because she did not get what she wanted
(marriage), the psychotic outburst was just more of the same behaviour, but
with elevated intensity. Fortunately, in the morning, she regained her
self-control but likely continued with her depression. Marriage would not
likely "fix" her behaviour problem (depression) for she would merely find a
new reason to engage in the same behaviour for a new reason. Perhaps the
man was smart enough to understand this and for this reason the man delayed
marrying the woman precisely because she was prone to using manipulative
behaviours like depression (pouting) to get her own way.
Benefits from behaviour: This illustrates the Law of Narcissistic Behaviour
Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Attention seeking, Pride, Praise, Honour, Fame: EDS-7.4.3. Her
depression and anxiety would attract attention to her unhappiness that she
wanted to be married.
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4. Her depression and anxiety
was a way of escaping and coping with her problem. It also allowed her to
be relieved of her duties, since she was sickly.
Sympathy: EDS-7.4.5. Her depression and anxiety were a desire for
sympathy.
Control over others: EDS-7.4.6. She used her depression and anxiety
as a way of trying to control those around her and her gallivanting groom
into marrying her.
5. Victimhood: EDS-7.4.13. Although it was simply a deferment in
her wedding, her behaviours were way of the balance with the actual
problem. You would think something really bad had happened to her, when it
was just a pouty female throwing a hissy fit because she wanted to start
buying the stuff in her bridal magazine for real! She portrayed herself as
a victim when she was the one really causing her own problems. The very
behaviour of sickly depression and anxiety were likely the very behaviours
what kept the groom at a distance. She was saying to her groom, "See what
you are doing to me by not marrying me!" His reply was, "And I want to
marry a woman who fabricates such sickly depression and anxiety? I need to
see you be normal for at least 6 months before I set a date." She had
difficulty seeing her own contributions to her own problems.
Diagnostic laws that are seen illustrated in the case of "Deferred":
She had calculated that walking around in a sickly pout was worth
the benefit of advertising her unhappiness for the purpose of sympathy and
special privileges. This illustrates the Law of Derivative Personal Benefit
(DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB
2. She had likely told him many times, "Let's hurry up and get
married" and it didn't work. So she manufactured a set of behaviours that
could ask him to marry her without words. She quit nagging him to marry her
with words but started nagging him to marry her with her sickly depression
and anxiety. This illustrates the Law of Manipulative Rhetorical
Malingering (MRM) EDS-7.7.9.MRM
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