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January 31, 2012

Female Hysteria: The Return

"Brownell flutters her fingers, touches her hair, snorts through her nose and throat,

and shouts “Hey, hey, hey,” seemingly without control. On Christmas Eve, doctors diagnosed her with Tourette’s Syndrome. Now, however, her symptoms have another name: conversion disorder, or mass hysteria. Since Brownell first passed out last summer, 14 other upstate New York students—13 girls and a boy, most of them students at LeRoy Junior-Senior High School—have come down with similar symptoms. --Mass hysteria in upstate New York - Slate Magazine

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 31, 2012 10:14 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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