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Teen girls' mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria
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Posted on 01/18/2012 12:04:01 PM PST by wolfcreek
The day after TODAY reported on the baffling case of 12 teenage girls at one school who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette's-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts, a doctor who is treating some of the girls has come forward to offer an explanation. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist in Amherst, N.Y., says the diagnosis is "conversion disorder," or mass hysteria.
"It's happened before, all around the world, in different parts of the world. It's a rare phenomena. Physicians are intrigued by it," Mechtler told TODAY on Wednesday. "The bottom line is these teenagers will get better."
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There's no way I'm going to believe this BS especially if it were my daughter.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:04:06 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
To: wolfcreek
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:07:49 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: wolfcreek
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..
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:08:17 PM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: wolfcreek
Don’t believe it then but it was somewhat obvious. Teen girls, no physical cause, sudden onset.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:09:59 PM PST
by
Williams
(Honey Badger Don't Care)
To: wolfcreek
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:10:26 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: wolfcreek
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:11:41 PM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: wolfcreek
who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette's-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts
You don't say?
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:12:25 PM PST
by
ZX12R
(FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
To: RnMomof7
Very similar to hypnosis. I’ve hypnotized a class in college, it’s quite amazing how susceptible people can be, esp young women.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:12:35 PM PST
by
Williams
(Honey Badger Don't Care)
To: wolfcreek
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:13:33 PM PST
by
MIchaelTArchangel
(Romney ruined Massachusetts. Now he wants to ruin the nation.)
To: wolfcreek
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
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:15:32 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
To: onedoug
To: Menehune56
Yep, sounds like the Salem witch trials or mccarthyism, haha.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:23:00 PM PST
by
ruthles
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
To: wolfcreek
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:24:55 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Williams
Hypnotized, or just put to sleep?
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:25:05 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1093 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: wolfcreek
“LSD”
Line of Sight Disease
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:26:00 PM PST
by
edcoil
(It is not over until I win.)
To: ruthles
I’ve always considered the Salem Witch Trials, Satanic ritual abuse, and other such silliness from days gone past as Moral Panics, not really mass hysteria.
Moral Panics are always amusing to watch from the sidelines. People get all worked up into a frenzy over the most ridiculous things. Of course, I guess if you’re the target of a moral panic, it might not be so amusing. Fortunately, moral panics come and go....usually one every decade at a minimum, I’ve noticed.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:27:25 PM PST
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: PGR88; al baby
Bieber fever?Yes.
They were stuned...
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:28:20 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1093 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Williams
You da man!
Now how did you do that again? ;>)
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:29:01 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
(Perry to Obama: Adios, MOFO!)
To: RnMomof7
Is there anywhere that all 12 girls went that no one else did? Is there some kind of new diet craze among them?
Mass Hysteria doesn’t pop up after a nap, as the symptoms did for the girl in the article.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:31:31 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice)
To: wolfcreek
Mass Hysteria comes last. First dogs and cats must live together. Then comes the Human sacrifice.
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posted on
01/18/2012 12:33:58 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
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