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==Institutional medical misogyny β reinventing the hysteria paradigm== ME, Lyme disease and Long Covid as well as [[Autoimmune disease|autoimmune conditions]] that Gupta claims to treat predominantly effect women. Why this is in medically unknown at the moment although research is starting to be done.<ref name="LCRisk">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/13/why-are-women-more-prone-to-long-covid</ref> The historical pattern of this paradigm is [[hysteria]]. Women's pain is often more likely to be classified as emotional or psychological in origin and require emotional or psychological treatment.<ref name="trust2019">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/02/why-dont-doctors-trust-women-because-they-dont-know-much-about-us</ref> This is investigated in depth in Jackson's ''Pain and Prejudice: A call to arms for Women and their Bodies'' and in Medical Historian Elinor Cleghorn's book ''Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-made world.''<ref name="pain-and-prejudice" /><ref name="smithsonianmag">{{Cite web | url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/western-medicines-woman-problem-180977925/ | title = Myth and Misdiagnosis Have Plagued Women's Health for Centuries | last = Gershon | first = Livia | authorlink = | date = | website = Smithsonian Magazine|language=en| archive-url = | archive-date = |url-status = | access-date=2022-03-07}}</ref><ref name="Cleghorn">{{Cite book | title = Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World | date = 2021-06-10| publisher = Orion|isbn=978-1-4746-1688-1|language=en | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=BTvsDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Unwell+Women:&hl=en | last = Cleghorn | first = Elinor}}</ref> Early onset [[Parkinson's disease]] in women is still more likely to be classed as 'emotional'. [[Multiple sclerosis]] before the physical disease origin was discovered was also seen as an onset of hysteria. The medical world does not tend to use the word hysteria now, the terminology has changed to 'emotional','psychological' based in the neurological system, 'overactive amygdala', 'sympathetic nervous system arousal', or '[[stress]]'.{{citation needed | date = 2022}} Any treatment program, like the Gupta Program, that uses calming methods is perpetuating the hysteria program by essentially saying that if we calm down, we will be cured. The illness is caused by faulty emotional and mental processing based in the nervous system (previously called hysteria) that through calming will go away. Essentially the Gupta Program is a heavily disguised hysteria paradigm that is repackaged in the language of neuroscience.
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