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Our patient is a young woman, she had some rather puzzling symptoms
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Our patient is a young woman,she had some rather puzzling symptoms

Unrest • 2017
Our patient is a young woman,
she had some rather puzzling symptoms

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Our patient is a young woman, she had some rather puzzling symptoms.
Duration
7 seconds
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36
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:16
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
We now call hysteria “functional disorder” or “conversion disorder,” - Unrest 00:12
We now call hysteria “functional disorder” or “conversion di...
I hear from women all of the time who were later diagnosed with fibromyalgia, - Unrest 00:14
I hear from women all of the time who were later diagnosed w...
80% of autoimmune disease patients are women. - Unrest 00:07
80% of autoimmune disease patients are women.
I can’t help but wonder if that’s why we’re disbelieved. - Unrest 00:06
I can’t help but wonder if that’s why we’re...
Feelings of more than usual tiredness, nervousness, and discomfort - Unrest 00:11
Feelings of more than usual tiredness, nervousness, and disc...
The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses is that they can never be proven. - Unrest 00:07
The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses is that they can ne...
They are names we give to illnesses when we can’t find a biological cause but that doesn’t mean there isn't one. - Unrest 00:09
They are names we give to illnesses when we can’t find a bio...
A girl who under many circumstances cannot admit to angry feelings. - Unrest 00:08
A girl who under many circumstances cannot admit to angry fe...
This is the story we tell until doctors can see our disease from the outside. - Unrest 00:08
This is the story we tell until doctors can see our disease ...
MS was called hysterical paralysis right up to the day they invented a CAT scan machine. - Unrest 00:09
MS was called hysterical paralysis right up to the day they ...
Because now we had the capacity to look at the brain and see those great big white spots of demyelination. - Unrest 00:08
Because now we had the capacity to look at the brain and see...
>> Jennifer: We used to institutionalize women with hysteria. - Unrest 00:06
>> Jennifer: We used to institutionalize women with...
It s always tempting to look at the past as something strange and distant - Unrest 00:10
It s always tempting to look at the past as something...
But what I could never have imagined, had I not gotten this disease, is that we’re still doing this. - Unrest 00:10
But what I could never have imagined, had I not gotten this ...
In Denmark the health authorities do not recognize ME as a physical disease. - Unrest 00:12
In Denmark the health authorities do not recognize ME as a p...
They say it is a psychiatric disease. - Unrest 00:05
They say it is a psychiatric disease.
Karina is only being seen by the psychiatric doctors that took her away from her parents. - Unrest 00:07
Karina is only being seen by the psychiatric doctors that to...
She's not been allowed to be seen by any other doctors. - Unrest 00:06
She's not been allowed to be seen by any other doctors.
>>Jennifer: When I first heard of this story I could hardly believe it. - Unrest 00:06
>>Jennifer: When I first heard of this story I could h...
But I learned that in many countries doctors have been removing severe patients from their homes for decades. - Unrest 00:09
But I learned that in many countries doctors have been remov...