hysterical

I remembered my mother, who’d spent so much time in mental hospitals, psychiatric wards, her whole life cycling between being overmedicated, under-medicated, ignored, treated like a hysterical woman who couldn’t care for herself.

What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.

As a former arts teacher, she feels compelled to help the now-hysterical young boy.

Every night, I speak to the islands of the Caribbean in the language of hysterical storms.

They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.

But Robin Williams will, sadly, no longer be sending us into hysterical fits of laughter.

Madame Lebrun grew a trifle hysterical; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.

Impudent and reckless us he had been all his life, he was now more timid and nervous than an hysterical girl.

I know quantities of hysterical European women make fools of themselves out here, but I am not hysterical, I assure you.

She snatched them from him, and burst into a fit of hysterical crying, which ended in a faintness almost as of death.

His men sprang into the guard-room of the keep, realizing from his almost hysterical manner the urgent need for haste.