Alexandra Daddario

You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going.

American Actress

Malcolm Nance

Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.

American Author

James Wolcott

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.

American Critic

Alex Zanardi

The first time the doctors put on my prosthetic legs they made me much taller than I'd ever been. I then remember the doctor saying 'we need to shorten this man' and we all were in hysterics.

Italian Driver

Dawn Powell

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

American Writer

Mike Gallagher

The global warming hysterics don't just offer opinions and beliefs about greenhouse gases and the like. These are people who speak as if they belong to a cult.

Hope Davis

Used when something triggers extreme laughter or crying.

Emotional Trigger

It implies that the person’s response is beyond their control.

Overwhelming Response

Often occurs in a group setting where emotion is shared.

Group Effect

Indicates a shared emotional reaction among a group.

Emotionally Contagious

Used when the response is far greater than expected.

Amplified Emotion

Emotional Overload

Refers to an outdated psychological term no longer used today.

Historical Concept

Modern psychology does not recognize 'hysterics' as a disorder.

Misunderstood Term

Originally linked to gendered stereotypes, now considered offensive.

Sensitive History

 There's a class of nine- and ten-year-olds, and half of them are in hysterics because they think Abby has said something wildly funny, and the other half are yelling at her for saying something offensive. And then you have Abby, sitting there completely bewildered because, in her mind, she doesn't understand the weight of what she said

Hysterics