Mental Illness Cause

Wisconsin Woman Who Repeatedly Stabbed Ex-Boyfriend Claims She Did it in a ‘Dream’

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Morgan Lund, a 21-year-old woman from Wisconsin, pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide charges in court on Monday. Lund allegedly stabbed her ex-boyfriend 19 times while he slept last month. According to court documents, Lund claims she was having a dream when she attacked her ex-partner. Police arrived at the couple’s home in Oshkosh just before 8 a.m. on February 18 to find Lund crying and covered in blood while she applied pressure …

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Can the Internet Cause Mental Illness?

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In 1962, an epidemic of uncontrollable laughter spread from an all-girls boarding school in East Africa to multiple towns. The phenomenon perplexed local health officials, who concluded that the most likely explanation was “mass hysteria”. Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, describes the 1962 laughing epidemic and other similar episodes, as well as a culture-bound syndrome, where people experience an illness that exists nowhere else in the world and seems to have no medical basis. According to …

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