Menstrual condition and menstrual psychosis

The author first of all briefly examines the influence of the first menstruation and established blood on the body of a nervously healthy woman, noting that "the menstrual period of a healthy woman is not a disease, but it is not complete health." Menstruation in such cases, to a greater or lesser extent, upsets the balance of the nervous system in a woman. The influence of menstruation on the body of a woman with a nervous predisposition is more complex. In these cases, the influence of the appearance of the first menstruation is especially pronounced, when sometimes an insignificant moment is enough only for the girl to develop epilepsy, hysteria, atrial melancholy, etc. It also happens the other way around: the onset of menstruation improves the course of already existing nervous suffering, for example, chorea. The influence of each menstruation is less pronounced, when menstruation has already been established, while painful menstruation (amenorrhoea, menorrhagia) affect the nervous state of women more sharply