Teen girls' mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria

MSM.com ^ | 1.18.2012 | n/a

[Graybeard58]

The stress of being a teenager today? If just being a teenager is so stressful as to cause “conversation disorder”

He said conversion disorder, I haven't a clue what that means but probably not the same as conversation, I'm not interested enough to click on an MSNBC link to find out.

[Williams]

Or the weakness of the mind.

[Smokin' Joe]

Yep, sounds like the Salem witch trials or mccarthyism, haha.

Only Joe McCarthy was right. Ha Ha.

[Smokin' Joe]

Something is in common with all 12 girls. Could they have been exposed to a chemical in their food? Were they exposed to a drug either intentionally/unintentionally? It seems like a real mystery to me, but I suspect the girls may know more than they are letting on.

My thinking, too, only it might be something that isn't medical.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ah. Um. I hope he didn’t knock points off for intruding on his turf...

LOL!! I had a class like that, too. Professor spoke in an uninflected monotone, southern exposure, spring semester, and right after lunch...

I did manage to stay awake for all but 5 minutes of one lecture...

[familyop]

It fits the conservative definition (predates many of the feminist/romanticist policies).

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
     Hysteric.] (Med.)
     A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
     in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
     exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
     so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
     the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
     paroxism or fits.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
           the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
           and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
           throat. The affection presents the most varied
           symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
           diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
           alone. Hysteric

[ArrogantBustard]

Could they have been exposed to a chemical in their food?

They were probably all exposed to DHMO. Most incidents like this are highly correlated with DHMO exposure.

[null and void]

Add Econ 101, and a professor whose Chinese accent was so thick he'd lapse into Chinese and no one would notice, he'd catch himself, apologize and become slightly less unintelligible for a while...

[Smokin' Joe]

I was rudely awakened by an elbow in my ribs one day (apparently my snoring had wakened the fellow sitting next to me and he took offense), and was stunned that we were the only two people in the room (aside from the professor) who were awake. The professor kept droning on...

[null and void]

Isn’t tenure a wonderful system?

[Smokin' Joe]

Yep, lovely (/sarc).

Sadly, I have seen dynamic professors who were excellent lecturers and quite knowledgeable in their fields not make tenure...

I have a tendency to view tenure systems as the Peter Principle in action. It isn't what you know, it's who you b....

Sure am glad I work in industry.

[Raebie]

Sounds like a teen flash mob designed to be reported in the media to me...

[toolman1401]

I suppose it could have been in their water.