Talk:Mass psychogenic illness/Archive 1

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: speedy moved; uncontroversial. NW ( Talk ) 19:41, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Mass Psychogenic Illness → Mass psychogenic illness –

Per WP:CAPS and WP:TITLE: this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Matches the formatting of related article titles. Tony  (talk)  09:02, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Support. I agree: this is a generic term. N oetica Tea? 02:40, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Regarding the Weir reference
I fixed the dead link, but the phrase "preponderance of female victims" oft-quoted in the article appears to be originally cited from the following article:

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/4/300.full

I might mess around and change this later (to be a more comprehensive reference), but can't right now, so if someone else would like to that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.199.151 (talk) 11:41, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Obsolete terminology
This page uses a point of view and a set of terms, such as "hysteria," and "nervous system disturbance" which may be obsolete. It may need to be rewritten from a more objective point of view. Dratman (talk) 14:40, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Mass hysteria is the most common term for this phenomenon. To such degree that the word 'hysteria' in modern contexts almost always has a connotation involving mass numbers of people, and the original meaning of the word is all but, if not already, obsolete. Firejuggler86 (talk) 02:57, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Malays?
@BorgQueen, I noticed here that you reverted this edit by an IP user which changed "malays" to "males". Wouldn't "males" be the correct word to use in that paragraph? Deauthorized. (talk) 20:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, it must have been a mistake. Reverted myself. --BorgQueen (talk) 21:00, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I see. Thanks either way. Deauthorized. (talk) 21:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

New source : Pokemon
Hi folks,

I think this source and its subject should be included in the article.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/16/pokemon-explosion-tv-japan-children-hospital

MonsieurD (talk) 14:21, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Gender
Should the article not mention that mass psychogenic illness predominantly affects women? In particularly teenage girls. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.42.19 (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

I remember a particular incidence in Thailand probably dyring late 1950's. Newspapers reported a rapid outbreaks of boys and men suddenly finding their penises to be "permanently shrunk". The symptom was painless and was witnessed and photographed. It affected largely the north-eastern part if the country which was rural and very poor. It made panic causing headlines for several weeks. The health department came out to explain that the phenomenon was a mass psychogenic in origin and probably linked to some stress issues experienced in the communities. It was a male gender specific phenomenon. 2403:6200:8853:2BCD:F56F:8688:6BE4:D6E6 (talk) 02:00, 27 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not the place for original research and hunch-ideas, hombres. You need either legit scientific citations or its really a non-starter Duckmonster (talk) 13:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)


 * it should. and it should also mention the most recent mass psychogenic illness in the typical target population: sudden exponential increase in requests by healthy pubescent girls for body modification surgery. GRoorda (talk) 16:55, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Not without very reliable sources. (Also, new stuff goes to the bottom.) --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:27, 4 June 2023 (UTC)