March 8, 2023

Mass Hysteria

Mass Hysteria

On this week's show, we explain America in two words

Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illnessmass psychogenic disorderepidemic hysteria, or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion.[1] It 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 causes.[2]