mass sociogenic illness (redirected from Sociogenic illness)

mass sociogenic illness

Epidemic hysteria The occurrence of a group of nonspecific physical symptoms for which no organic cause can be determined, which is transmitted among members of a group by 'line of sight'; MSI is more common in ♀, and characterized by headache, nausea, weakness, dizziness, hyperventilation, and fainting, a general lack of Sx in those sharing the same physical environment, but in a different timeframe