Interesting podcast about contagious TMS

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Tunza

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Has anyone else listened to this podcast? I thought it was a very respectful exploration of TMS in the context of people getting symptoms from others around them. It pays to listen right through all the episodes before judging what you think of it. The term they use is "conversion disorder" which is of course, just one term for mindbody symptoms.
https://wondery.com/shows/hysterical/
 
Interesting find, @Tunza! (& nice to see you again). I remember reading about the school incident years ago, in an article which was certainly talking about the psychological component.

Anyway, this is a 7-episode limited series and episodes are only 30-40 minutes. I really like this description (my emphasis).

From Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios, this 7-part series forces us to grapple with the mysteries of our own minds, and reckon with a contagion that we thought was long dead, but may be the defining disorder of our time.
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I'm intrigued! I just listened to the trailer on Amazon Music and since Amazon constantly turns Autoplay back on (grrr) I'm now listening to the first episode. I'm using Amz because I seem to recall that it might carry Wondery pods ad-free - I'll find out!
 
Tunza said:
Has anyone else listened to this podcast? I thought it was a very respectful exploration of TMS in the context of people getting symptoms from others around them. It pays to listen right through all the episodes before judging what you think of it. The term they use is "conversion disorder" which is of course, just one term for mindbody symptoms.
https://wondery.com/shows/hysterical/
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Conversion disorder was popularized by Freud whose method of psychoanalysis gave Dr. Sarno the idea of psychosomatic chronic pain.
 
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It's also known as Functional Disorder and Functional Neurological Disorder, over here in the UK. And, in days gone by, it was called 'hysteria'.
 
I "caught" carpal tunnel back when that was a thing. That was a good example of the phenomena because suddenly bunches of folks "had" it.
 
Apparently it is now "a thing" on TikTok: Tourette Syndrome epidemic, mostly teenage girls.
 
Dr Sarno said that ulcers were the "popular" stress symptom before back pain, which reminded me that I had dated a guy with an ulcer when I was in graduate school - this was the late 70s and we were in our twenties. Fun guy, but also what we called, back then, neurotic.
 
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