Female Hysteria

The plot basis is a disorder that has been recognized as nothing more than a misogynistic fantasy and an easy way to institutionalize women for speaking their mind. The medical community looks upon the days of hysteria diagnosis as some of their darkest. The treatment involved forced orgasm "treatments", and when those did not work to subdue the problem women, they were given hysterectomies. Twenty-five percent of the female population was given this diagnosis in the eighteen hundreds, and, by all accounts it was a myth which was delivered as fact until well after women's rights were acknowledged by society.

Keeping that in mind, no doctor today would dare going public with this diagnosis, and a female doctor would know what the repercussions of doing so would be. She would be laughed out of any medical community she attempted to float this crap in.

If you're looking for a show that sets women's rights back about 100 years, this is the show for you. If not, give your time to something that isn't based on antiquated medicine that we know in it's mere mention, is the equivalent of the mindset that argued blacks were more ape than human so we didn't have to treat them with any sense of compassion.