ajax_andy 0 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Don't know if anyone saw this last night but it was a really interesting and somewhat difficult to watch story: In October 2011 in the tiny town of Le Roy, New York, a handful of teenage girls from the same high school suddenly developed symptoms that looked like Tourette's syndrome: facial twitching, violent limb gestures and uncontrollable verbal outbursts. Some doctors believed they were victims of conversion disorder, where real physical symptoms - in this case tics - are triggered not by a physical cause, but by psychological trauma. But within a few months 18 students were sick and the diagnosis became 'mass hysteria'. As a cry for help, the girls went on national TV and their story caused a global media frenzy. This remarkable documentary meets the people at the heart of this outbreak, including the girls who have recovered, as well as those who are still suffering. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-town-that-caught-tourettes/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 Worth watching on 4OD if you didn't catch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I have recorded it and will watch it over the next few days, very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Watched it and its quite upsetting tbh. Although, the lasses parents all seemed a bit retarded anyways! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 MINGE! Stiill love John's not mad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajax_andy 0 Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 Watched it and its quite upsetting tbh. Although, the lasses parents all seemed a bit retarded anyways! Yeah must be an awful thing to happen to such young and previously healthy people. I for one don't buy the mass hysteria diagnosis... there's something gone / going on here that needs to be sorted as there'll be more and more cases I think if they can't get to the bottom of it. Strange how these things can happen to one town... bit like the Bridgend suicides in Wales where suddenly out of nowhere a set of teens all start being effected by something completely unexplainable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Yeah must be an awful thing to happen to such young and previously healthy people. I for one don't buy the mass hysteria diagnosis... there's something gone / going on here that needs to be sorted as there'll be more and more cases I think if they can't get to the bottom of it. Strange how these things can happen to one town... bit like the Bridgend suicides in Wales where suddenly out of nowhere a set of teens all start being effected by something completely unexplainable Aye, it looked and was exhausting just watching it man and I am ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Recorded it. Looked interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajax_andy 0 Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 Here's a good albeit lenghty article that's worth a read on the subject. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1351249423-vwiGJBfsaQN3IBAKVGLjRQ Strange how I can't find anything from a more recent date than this though... seems the story has gone cold other than for the documentry last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 So what are the theories behind why this has happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9478 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 So what are the theories behind why this has happened? Parky'll know the full details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17290 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 MINGE! Stiill love John's not mad My brothers in it He was at the same college at the time, Galashiels tech. He's in some of the background shots. He said everyone thought John was putting it on and he regularly got a right kicking for it. Watch it again when John shouts "Beebs ya fat cunt!!"...me and my brother knew Beebs from school too...not that we were in the same class at the tech as him and John you understand...honest...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajax_andy 0 Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 So what are the theories behind why this has happened? Mass hysetria Chemicals seeping in to the water supply from a train crash carrying toxic chemicals in the 70's Other environmental factors Synthetic marijuana Faking it (not possible IMO) Infection caused by 'strep throat' that has led to neurological illness Probably others too that I haven't remembered. No one seems to know though which is the sad part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 My brothers in it He was at the same college at the time, Galashiels tech. He's in some of the background shots. He said everyone thought John was putting it on and he regularly got a right kicking for it. Watch it again when John shouts "Beebs ya fat cunt!!"...me and my brother knew Beebs from school too...not that we were in the same class at the tech as him and John you understand...honest...! Ill have to watch that tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Havent seen it but I would bet my house on the rest if these girls symptoms being paychosomatic. Its relatively common on a smaller scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Havent seen it but I would bet my house on the rest if these girls symptoms being paychosomatic. Its relatively common on a smaller scale Alreet, House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Im a fucking psychiatric nurse man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Alreet, House. J69 or TRS, have you read Chimps Paradox? What are your thoughts on this sort of stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33282 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Im a fucking psychiatric nurse man Well I feel sorry for your patients if you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'll pass on your commiserations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 J69 or TRS, have you read Chimps Paradox? What are your thoughts on this sort of stuff? Is that the book the cycling coach wrote? Not read it. Sounds like he's written a book about CBT and claimed he's invented it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Another blind diagnosis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9478 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Im a fucking psychiatric nurse man Savile-esque ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Yeah baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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