Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:31PM (#33886591)

I have SAD and this happens to me several times a day. Though it's not so much that it pops into my head, more that my train of thought leads me there by association.

In a lot of ways SAD feels like a form of PTSD where instead of a single extremely traumatic experience, or many extreme experiences(known as complex PTSD), it's a huge amount of slightly traumatic ones. So it's sort of like a flashback.

One of the things I've noticed is that when I'm on SSRIs and they're working(which has never been a long-lived state of affairs, unfortunately), this phenomenon is drastically reduced or even gone altogether.

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by geocrasher on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:34PM (#33886628)

Are you talking about Seasonal Affective Disorder? Or can you define what SAD is if not?

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by Scarblac on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:51PM (#33886851)

From context my guess is Social Anxiety Disorder.

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by geocrasher on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:59PM (#33886944)

That makes more sense. Thanks.

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:00PM (#33886956)

Sorry, forgot about seasonal affective disorder, which I also have, ironically. But I was referring to social anxiety disorder.

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