This informative video discusses how fear, power, and control can impact your mental health and cause whole communities to believe in delusions. It discusses how it appeared throughout history as well as throughout the twenty first century. There’s also connections with totalitarianism, propaganda, and mass psychosis that I found to be really interesting. It released just a few months ago and has over 3 million views already! The artwork also is very entertaining.
“What Is Collective Hysteria?,” HowStuffWorks, April 18, 2007, https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/collective-hysteria.htm.
Additionally, this article illustrates a recent instance of mass hysteria among young girls in a Mexican boarding school in 2006. The author states that “The girls, ages 12 to 17, showed strange symptoms: difficulty walking, fever and nausea. After the girls returned from a 10-day Christmas break, the illness spread. Eventually 600 out of the 3,600 girls at the school showed symptoms.” After several tests, they decided that the symptoms were psychological. The article also discusses how the brain can manifest these symptoms and what the major catalysts are.
