Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35911608-20180823132725/@comment-33488654-20180824014341

RedNovaTyrant wrote: So, did some looking around, and found the actual term for what my story is about: mass psychogenic illness, also called mass sociogenic illness. I was unaware that it had a term, but I'm glad it does. However, I plan to re-evaluate the symptoms used in the story a bit to make things line up a little more with reality.

At least now I can stop saying it's a story where the disease spreads through mass hysteria and the symptoms are caused by a nocebo effect over and over. Much easier to explain now. Noice.