https://www.livescience.com/18310-schoolgirl-mass-hysteria-y...
Certainly girls in Iran have good reasons to feel stressed right now, and there are indeed people out there who mean them harm. Poison isn't the usual way that malice comes out, though.
O...kay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morangos_com_A%C3%A7%C3%BAcar_...
Possibly multiple times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_student_poisoning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness#In_sc...
Unfortunately many people mistakenly believe a psychosomatic illness isn't "real" - when professionals tell them "These people have a psychosomatic illness" what they hear is "These people are lying" which is not what was said, and so when the same professionals tell them, "You have a psychosomatic illness" they hear "You are lying" and they're angry - how dare these professionals accuse them of lying! They know it's real!
"Are you saying that there's some widespread campaign to poison girls, with incidenbts in 50-60 schools so far?" Doesn't sound much saner.
There’s gas based chemical attacks happening and we have mx brains over here saying it’s mass hysteria.
What is the evidence?
I’m seriously asking, because this whole things looks likely to be ignored if evidence is being suppressed.
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Hundreds of people have reported that they have smelt vanilla-like smell, which is a classic smell in various chemical attack agents.
It's outright absurd to call this an event of mass hysteria, and I'm not really sure how anyone is even getting the evidence to call it that.
The person being quoted in that article literally worked for the Iranian government. They're not a trust worthy source, where it's looking more and more like this is happening with the blessing of the state (the scale, and lack of action by officials)
Someone needs to work to compile this into a credible report. (Rando Telegrams aren’t that.) Gas attacks raise questions, such as how adults in the vicinity weren’t impacted.
This person is not a trustworthy source of information. They've worked for the Iranian government.
As long as no direct cause is found, mass hysteria is a possibility. And while it's certainly possible there's a massive government cover-up, it's also possible there's nothing to cover-up.
People are confabulating a diagnosis here, based upon next to no information. Would you want them to be your physician?
I wouldn't want somebody without a medical degree to be my doctor, but I'd have no strong objection to random people privately discussing what they thought my disease was based on an anonymous report of the symptoms.
Hypochondria is a thing. Triggering many with hpochondria is possible. But they won't all be in one class of the same school.
If you have half of all girls in a class hospitalized, it's downright ridiculous to claim hypochondria as the cause.
That said, if a third of my class was already going to the hospital because they were "poisoned," I could very easily see myself getting overly worried about my own health to the extent where I would join them in the hospital. And I wouldn't consider myself a hypochondriac by any means.
That "mystery illness" is an invention to explain away cases of unknown cause. An argument by ignorance essentially.
Observe how in this particular instance the spread of the disease does not conform to what would be expected if the cause was information.
These are very similar to mass hysteria. But they are connected to very real things like subsets of the population experiencing trauma. War and covid was traumatic mentally for a lot of people and that can manifest as other physical symptoms. Whether everyone in the group has a direct connection to those things or get grouped through circumstance and general interest by doctors/scientists/media is a big differentiator.
(Not saying this poisoning case fits this but it’s always good to be suspicious).
Essentially, you are confabulating a cause where there is not enough evidence.