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MASS HYSTERIA IS ILLNESS WITH NO PHYSICAL CAUSE
Mass Hysteria Is A Group Illness With No Physical Cause
No One Is Immune To It
The Impact Of Its Outbreaks Is Underappreciated And Underreported
Their Symptoms Have Changed From One Era To The Next
Most Reports Before The 1900s Described Convulsions And Tremors
Some Also Involved Paralysis And Laughing
Since The 1900s Outbreaks Have Commonly Been Blamed On Odd Smells
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A GASOLINE SMELL IN A TENNESSEE CLASSROOM ⛽
In November 1998 A Teacher Noticed A Smell Like Gasoline
It Was In Her Classroom At A Tennessee High School
Soon After She Had A Headache
She Also Had Nausea And Shortness Of Breath
On Top Of That She Felt Dizzy
The School Was Then Evacuated
80 Students Went To The Emergency Room At The Local Hospital
19 Staff Members Went There Too
38 People Were Kept In The Hospital Overnight
Those Who Reported Symptoms On The First Day Came From 36 Classrooms
The Classrooms Were Scattered Throughout The School
Five Days Later The School Had Reopened
Another 71 People Went To The Emergency Room
Both Groups Reported The Same Most Frequent Symptoms
Headache And Dizziness Were Among Them
Nausea And Drowsiness Were Too
The Symptoms Were Blamed On Exposure To A Toxic Gas
Several Government Agencies Then Ran An Extensive Investigation
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THE TESTS THAT FOUND NO TOXIN 🧪
Blood And Urine Samples Were Tested
The Samples Showed No Sign Of Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Monoxide Is A Poisonous Gas
There Was No Sign Of Volatile Organic Compounds Either
Those Are Chemicals That Evaporate Easily Into The Air
Pesticides Did Not Show Up In The Samples
Neither Did Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Polychlorinated Biphenyls Are Industrial Chemicals
The Weed Killer Paraquat Was Absent Too
Mercury Did Not Show Up Either
No Toxic Compounds Were Found In The Environment
The Investigators Had No Medical Or Environmental Explanation
This Outbreak Had The Features Of Mass Psychogenic Illness
Mass Psychogenic Illness Is Commonly Called Mass Hysteria
The Symptoms Were Widespread And Subjective
Subjective Symptoms Are Ones Only The Person Feeling Them Can Report
People Believed The Symptoms Came From A Toxic Substance
There Was No Objective Evidence Of An Environmental Cause
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WHAT DOCTORS CALL IT 📖
Doctors Use More Than One Name For Mass Hysteria
Researchers Also Call It Mass Psychogenic Disorder
Psychogenic Means Arising In The Mind
Epidemic Hysteria Is Another Term In The Research
A Canadian Medical Review Called It Mass Sociogenic Illness
Sociogenic Means Arising From A Social Group
The Same Review Set It Apart From A Collective Delusion
A Collective Delusion Is A False Belief Shared By Many People
People With Mass Hysteria Show Symptoms Of Illness
That Review Listed It Under Somatoform Disorder
This Group Covers Physical Symptoms Without A Physical Cause
More Narrowly It Was Classed As Conversion Disorder
Conversion Means Physical Symptoms In Place Of Suppressed Emotion
These Symptoms Are Not Under The Person's Voluntary Control
That Is What Separates Them From Faking
They Usually Match No Known Disease Of The Nervous System
Even So Mass Hysteria May Be Hard To Tell Apart From Toxic Illness
The Same Is True Of Contagious Infections And Bioterrorism
