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hysteroid

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hysteroid /hys·ter·oid/ (his´ter-oid) resembling hysteria.
hys·ter·oid (hst-roid)
adj.
Resembling or simulating hysteria.

hysteroid [his″ter-oid]
resembling hysteria.

hysteroid
resembling hysteria.


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Those patients could benefit from using monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors, since those drugs are most effective in atypical depression or hysteroid dysphoria, which often occurs with irritability, sensitivity to rejection, loneliness, anger, and eating and sleeping too much.
Still others have an extreme sensitivity to romantic rejection -- a clinical syndrome now recognized by most psychiatrists, and coined hysteroid dysphoria.
In one of the latest studies, psychologist Marjorie Schuman of the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles and her colleagues report that people (like Joanne) with "an identified interest in chocolate" are more likely than others to be female (90 percent were women) and to have personality traits associated with a depressive syndrome called hysteroid dysphoria.
 
 
 
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