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Mass hysteria not black magic behind growing hair-chopping incidents: Experts
Hindustan Times ^
| August 4, 2017
| Mass hysteria not black magic behind growing hair-chopping incidents: Experts
Posted on 08/18/2017 1:40:25 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
A day after a 60-year-old woman was killed in Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of cutting off peoples hair and 11 more women complained of braids being chopped off in Delhi-NCR on Thursday, psychiatrists blamed mass hysteria as panic spread.
Police, too, have requested people not look at these incidents as a supernatural phenomenon or work of a ghost.
From all the available evidence, it seems the women are cutting their own hair either consciously or in an altered sensorium, likely to seek attention, said Dr Sudhir Khandelwal, former head of the department of psychiatry at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: hair; india; women
and in other news, it appears that either there is a madman/woman on the loose, or else that women in India have had quite enough of long hair in a hot climate.
To: BlackAdderess
Selling it........................
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posted on
08/18/2017 1:49:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BlackAdderess
A ghost has been taking my hair for years.
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posted on
08/18/2017 1:51:44 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
08/18/2017 1:54:41 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: BlackAdderess
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posted on
08/18/2017 2:01:22 PM PDT
by
ETL
(See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
To: Graybeard58
Look in the shower drain.
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
08/18/2017 2:12:09 PM PDT
by
BlackAdderess
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/database/)
To: BlackAdderess
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posted on
08/18/2017 2:23:49 PM PDT
by
Crucial
To: Crucial
Either that or an opportunity to look at mass hysteria happening in someone else’s country instead of just our own, which makes it easier to think about in a detached way.
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posted on
08/18/2017 2:27:58 PM PDT
by
BlackAdderess
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/database/)
To: BlackAdderess
I do not have to worry about because I have little baby fine hair. I think it is time for a wig. =)
To: BlackAdderess
Waiting for talk of red scares and witchhnts by the arts and literature crowd.
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posted on
08/18/2017 3:34:10 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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