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Mass hysteria

Mass hysteria

spontaneous, en masse development of identical physical and/or emotional symptoms among a group of individuals, as seen in a classroom of schoolchildren, a socially contagious frenzy of irrational behaviour in a group of people as a reaction to an event.

Synonym: epidemic hysteria.


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The Fiber Disease

... this is all a delusion disorder and all of us who have it are part of a mass hysteria that's being fueled by the internet," Smith said. Just last month the Centers ...

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by RANDY
Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:10 pm
 
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... new disease suddenly surfacing across the nation, or a case of mass hysteria abetted by Internet message boards and breathless local TV news reports, is a question ...

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by RANDY
Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:27 am
 
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The Fiber Disease

... symptoms who have never met and who also have visible proof it must be mass hysteria. That is just laziness on the part of some of them. Thank God there are some doctors ...

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by Linn
Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:25 pm
 
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Topic: The Fiber Disease
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