Mass Student Fainting in Loei Not Related to Hazing Activities

The Rector of Loei Rajabhat University insists the incident in which many students passed out and experienced tenseness in their limbs is unrelated to any sort of hazing activities, and physicians assume it may have been the effect of a mutual hallucination.

Assistant Professor Sanit Luengbootnark said senior and first-year students from several faculties who were admitted to Loei Hospital on June 10th were not suffering from the results of freshmen activities.

He explained that students were practising intensely for a celebration ceremony that was to be held on June 15th, as the university has recently been promoted to a national Rajabhat University.

Although freshmen welcoming activities took place in the morning of the same day, he said the activities were simple and in line with the university’s policy, which prohibits violence and bizarre activities.

He added that all professors and officials at the university had been strictly following procedure.

Sanit assumes the students may have been practising hard under extreme temperatures, which may have caused them to faint.

Regarding the symptoms of tenseness and aching in the arms and legs, he said some students began to feel the symptoms and others then followed; therefore, it may have been a mutual hallucination, as doctors have suggested.

-- Tan Network 2009-06-12

<deleted>, mutual hallucinations? sounds more like someone spiked the water

Strange - Food poisoning , heat or some form of air pollution ?

Edited June 12, 200917 yr by churchill

Very interesting indeed

Doctor suggested mutual hallucinication, can't figure what it means, maybe they are tripping on drugs ?

I think the correct term is mass hysteria not mutual hallucination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

It happens.

In a more group think culture like Thailand, I bet it happens a lot.

Edited June 12, 200917 yr by Jingthing

I think the correct term is mass hysteria not mutual hallucination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

It happens.

In a more group think culture like Thailand, I bet it happens a lot.

This is a strictly female phenomenon and is quite common amongst female students.

There are hundreds of cases reported through the ages. Nuns are particularly prone to it.

Here is a recent example.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7610744.stm

I think the correct term is mass hysteria not mutual hallucination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

It happens.

In a more group think culture like Thailand, I bet it happens a lot.

This is a strictly female phenomenon and is quite common amongst female students.

There are hundreds of cases reported through the ages. Nuns are particularly prone to it.

Here is a recent example.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7610744.stm

I don't think nuns would make a habit of such a thing

I don't think nuns would make a habit of such a thing

i see what you did there.

For "mutual hallucination", there's also shared hallucinations, such as in DSM-IV's Shared Psychotic Disorder:

Folie à deux (translated, "a madness shared by two") is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (folie à deux) (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name.

For "mutual hallucination", there's also shared hallucinations, such as in DSM-IV's Shared Psychotic Disorder:

Folie à deux (translated, "a madness shared by two") is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (folie à deux) (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name.

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