[wolfcreek]

There's no way I'm going to believe this BS especially if it were my daughter.

[Kartographer]

Kind of like the 2008 Presidential Elections? Must be a pandemic as it looks to be coming around again this year just in time for the election.

[RnMomof7]

I live in the area ..I have followed this since it started..

There is no way this is “mass hysteria” ..these girls all became ill about the same time..

The truth is either they know and are being silent.. or they are clueless..

[Williams]

Don’t believe it then but it was somewhat obvious. Teen girls, no physical cause, sudden onset.

[onedoug]

Salem?

[Menehune56]

I suspect witchcraft.

[ZX12R]

who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette's-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts



You don't say?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The stress of being a teenager today? If just being a teenager is so stressful as to cause “conversation disorder” for this dozen dolts, I predict they will not accomplish much in their lives because the stress of being an adult far outweighs the stress of who is going out with whom.

[muir_redwoods]

I'm tending to agree with the mass hysteria diagnosis. It seems odd that only girls are affected, only girls in this school and all of them came down with the symptoms after one of them began exhibiting the problem. I understand both the state of New York Dept. of Health and at least one private physician have done lots of tests and have no clue. It could be environmental I suppose but there should be more people suffering from the symptoms. If it was a vaccine, kids in other schools would have the symptoms. It reads a bit like The Crucible in terms of mass hysteria

[PGR88]

Bieber fever?

[edcoil]

“LSD”

Line of Sight Disease

[Revel]

Typical worthless doctors. Any of them that claims this should lose their license.

[boomop1]

Goes with the territory.

[netmilsmom]

http://www.livestrong.com/article/179227-human-symptoms-of-foreign-brain-parasites/

[ejonesie22]

Sounds like a front for a class action lawsuit setup on the School...

[USMCPOP]

“...tics and verbal outbursts...”

Happens to me all the time when I run out of beer. But it usually subsides after a 6-pack or two.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Teenage girls, mass hysteria...?

Ridiculous.

[crosshairs]

Just wait until the SHTF. There’s going to be a LOT of mass hysteria, with people cussing and twitching all over the place like they have Tourrettes.

[tired&retired]

You should watch a stage hypnosis show some day and then you would understand the power (sometimes negatively) of the mind.

[varyouga]

This is quite a mystery. My first thought is psychoactive drugs or chemicals but there is no way it would affect all of them so similarly and abruptly at the same time.

It reminded me of a little historic tidbit:

In the Victorian era, “Female Hysteria” was considered a real mental illness. Almost a fourth of women were believed to have it. One symptom was “causing trouble”.

The “cure” was medical stimulation of the pelvis until “hysterical release” (orgasm). The physicians got tired of having their hands occupied for hours and the first vibrators were introduced as medical devices.

[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