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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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To: MIchaelTArchangel
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:21:15 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
To: tired&retired
Or the weakness of the mind.
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:21:34 PM PST
by
Williams
(Honey Badger Don't Care)
To: ruthles
Yep, sounds like the Salem witch trials or mccarthyism, haha.Only Joe McCarthy was right. Ha Ha.
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:25:48 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: toolman1401
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:35:23 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: null and void
Ah. Um. I hope he didnt 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...
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:38:52 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: wolfcreek
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
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:40:21 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: toolman1401
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:46:57 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Smokin' Joe
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...
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:47:03 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1093 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: null and void
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...
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:51:36 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
Isn’t tenure a wonderful system?
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posted on
01/18/2012 2:55:11 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1093 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: null and void
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 3:06:15 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: null and void
Sounds like a teen flash mob designed to be reported in the media to me...
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posted on
01/18/2012 3:15:47 PM PST
by
Raebie
(WS)
To: ArrogantBustard
I suppose it could have been in their water.
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