Jan 24, 2020
Today we explore the insane, disturbing and occasionally frickin adorable world of mass psychogenic disorders, aka Mass Hysteria.
Meowing nuns, dancing plagues, dogs and cats living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!!
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References:
- The mysterious dancing mania and mass psychogenic illness
- Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy (via pub med)
- 15 cases of mass psychogenic disorder
- Ghost haunts toilet in Bangladesh, sends thousands into mass panic
- Why does mass hysteria affect mostly women?
- Mass hysteria at a New York high school
- Mirror Neurons are frickin awesome
- Women in the middle ages (spoiler: kinda sucked)
- Life as a nun in the middle ages (spoiler: mostly sucked)
- Gender and women's mental health (via the WHO)