222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
The Michael Shermer Show
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Resignation Cyndrum
This resignation cyndrum, as its known, clusters so specifically amongst this single group of people. So it's a specific group of people only in sweden. What's likely happening is these people are kind of embodying a narrative that they've heard in their com nity. And we also learn the effective way to express distress according to the society we live in. But i think this being a social phenomenon doesn't affect people in london or california and it just affects this one community who have been exposed to it now. Although i should say it's not just that community that's exposed to it because I'm sure there will be many more cases out there.
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