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#1330315 - 03/06/12 12:34 PM
Re: LeRoy Mystery Illness Now Possibly 16 Students
[Re: teedoff27]
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cRaZeD
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Registered: 06/16/04
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Maybe it was all hype - who knows. Yeah I agree, now you hear nothing. But, I don't think it's because Whitney Houston died. I had also heard that two of the students were clearing up and their symptoms were getting better. I also watched "The Doctors" episode where they had one of these girls on. However, a Psychiatrist explained how Hype can cause a conversion disorder and the way it works. It is usually women that get caught up in it. Say one student has something real that causes real tics, whether it's true Tourette's Syndrome, or symptoms from an ongoing strep infection (which usually affects younger children, not teens and adults.) Well, if a female student is around that other student enough, they might start mimicking the tics, etc...they say usually stress or OCD or some other psychological thing may be going on in the brain.
What's the difference between conversion disorder, mass psychogenic illness and mass hysteria?
The official name for this disorder is still being debated. The American Psychiatric Association's current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – or DSM-IV – calls it "conversion disorder."
The new version, DSM-5, which is set to publish in May 2013, is proposing a change to call it functional neurological disorder. In the past, the disorder has been called mass psychogenic illness or, more simply, mass hysteria. All the names describe the same disorder.
It's important to note that conversion disorder is not a group diagnosis, but an individual one.
"It's very unusual to have conversion symptoms that are 'contagious,' " Salpekar says.
Psychiatrists often refer to cases like the one in New York as a conversion reaction – or a group's reaction to conversion disorder.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/04/taking-the-mystery-out-of-conversion-disorder/
Edited by KiDcRaZeD (03/06/12 12:36 PM)
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