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Sri Lanka (2012) – From November 15–20, 2012, incidents of mass hysteria occurred at 15 schools in Sri Lanka. More than 1,900 school children of 15 schools in Sri Lanka and five teachers were treated for a range of symptoms that included skin rashes, vomiting, vertigo, and cough due to allergic reactions believed to be mass hysteria.
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria – Moral panic and series of prosecutions, one example of satanic panic; Folie à deux – Shared psychosis, a psychotic disorder (from the French for "a madness shared by two") Group Think; Herd mentality – Tendency to adopt group beliefs and behaviors
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria: That some day-care centers were engaging in Satanic child sexual abuse Increased usage of day-cares among employed women with young children United States 1980s – 1990s [34] [35] AIDS panic AIDS dissemination, particularly by gay men AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, Conservative activism Global 1980s – 1990s [36] [37]
TikTok is resurfacing the devastating 2008 death of a 20-year-old college student who passed away after eating unrefrigerated leftover pasta. In a now-viral video, TikToker @jpall20 shared the ...
The sexism of 'hysteria' Understandably, Taberski said, some residents chafed at what was deemed an outbreak of "hysteria." The term has long been used to downplay the maladies of women that ...
Another contributing factor in the moral panic over pedophiles and sex offenders was the day-care sex-abuse hysteria in the 1980s and early 1990s, including the McMartin preschool trial. This led to a panic where parents became hypervigilant with concerns of predatory child sex offenders seeking to abduct children in public spaces, such as ...
For the most part, hysteria does not exist as a medical diagnosis in Western culture and has been replaced by other diagnoses such as conversion or functional disorders. [31] The effects of hysteria as a diagnosable illness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has had a lasting effect on the medical treatment of women's health. [7]
The most common anecdotal examples based on hearsay are of parents lifting vehicles to rescue their children, and when people are in life-and-death situations. Periods of increased strength are short-lived, usually no longer than a few minutes, and might lead to muscle injuries and exhaustion later.