{"id":65888,"date":"2019-11-07T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=65888"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:51:05","slug":"anxiety-blanket-for-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/65888","title":{"rendered":"anxiety blanket for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness or just sociogenic illness, is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic” cause. MPI is distinct from other collective delusions, also included under the blanket terms of mass hysteria, in that MPI causes symptoms of disease, though there is no organic cause.\nThere is a clear preponderance of female victims. The DSM-IV-TR does not have specific diagnosis for this condition but the text describing conversion disorder states that “In ‘epidemic hysteria’, shared symptoms develop in a circumscribed group of people following ‘exposure’ to a common precipitant.”

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