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It\'s my understanding that \'brain fever\' was the Victorian word for something they didn\'t understand very well, thus, like \
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It\\\'s my understanding that \\\'brain fever\\\' was the Victorian word for something they didn\\\'t understand very well, thus, like \\\"psychotic\\\" it got all kinds of misused by novelists. Specifically, \\\'brain fever\\\' was the period word for what in the early 20th century was called a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_breakdown | \\\"nervous breakdown\\\"] and these days doesn\\\'t have a specific DSM-IV tag, but seems to be a stress-induced issue related to PTSD or acute stress disorder.
I wish people wouldn\\\'t change the names of disorders and diseases. Makes it hard to figure out what the heck is really going on in older novels, where people have fits of \\\"ague\\\" (malaria), suffer from \\\"brain fever\\\" (noted above), or \\\"shell shock\\\" (PTSD).
I wish people wouldn\\\'t change the names of disorders and diseases. Makes it hard to figure out what the heck is really going on in older novels, where people have fits of \\\"ague\\\" (malaria), suffer from \\\"brain fever\\\" (noted above), or \\\"shell shock\\\" (PTSD).
