Reading about women’s mental health throughout history, I began to understand myself | Katerina Bryant
While it hurts to read about these women’s pain, worse still is knowing what isn’t written. The mistreatment, the lack of understanding
When I think of the women who share my diagnosis, I always come back to Katharina. Maybe it’s because we both have an iteration of the same name or because we ache for answers to an illness that is little understood. Yet it’s funny, too, that I think of her so often, considering the account of her life is not in her own words but is a 10-page case summary in Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer’s Studies on HysteriaA “sulky-looking girl of perhaps eighteen”, Katharina approaches Freud in
