In mental illness, there is one big advantage over the corporeal: they are, in most cases, free from infection. Those who are infected or give small epidemics, can be counted on the fingers. Most of these cases are described as mass hysteria, in which infection occurs INFORMATION. But information infect not only the disease. Minor mental epidemic also gives love, for example, a crowd of fans everywhere love to be of questionable quality for a star or half pionersh squad falls in love with a young Pioneer. In the latter case there is infection: girlfriend's fall in pairs, which is easy and fun to watch - one infects the other through direct communication. And such "fake", "induced" Love is sometimes really feel.

The one who falls for a second, usually loves longer and dedication. Epidemic spread any rumors. Epidemic there are people who believe that they have seen flying saucers. Epidemic spreads fashion. Epidemic spread enthusiasm. Epidemiologically apply simple forms of antisocial or criminal behavior: in 1959 for several weeks were hundreds of swastikas on synagogues and the public is concerned that the renewed Nazi presledovniya Jews. In fact, there was just a mental infection - infection with the idea of an act.

It was enough to commit the act alone, as many have followed his example. With modern media and computer network transmission of ideas is extremely relieved. Therefore, the problem of information and moral disease soon increase dramatically. Often the information of the epidemic suddenly end and they are followed by an epidemic of the opposite behavior. Toys that we have seen in recent years, flew at us epidemic waves: the new jump and sticky balls, springs, Tamagotchi, the Rubik's cube, etc. Now, when I write these lines, there is no child on the street without a toy yo-yo. Someone can not leave the house without crutches, someone without a pill Validol someone without having to quarrel with a neighbor, but someone without a yo-yo. And those others, and third, and fourth are limited in their capabilities and, therefore, in a different way and with varying degrees of severity, are unhealthy. But it will take several months and the yo-yo away.

Epidemic, scientific research often start with a new or newly discovered idea, but not any idea, but one that allows further development and design, and promises great prospects, such as opening a new drug. The disappearance of epidemics due to the fact that all the possibilities of this idea been tried and researchers have nowhere to go. There are fears of massive waves, the waves of the symptoms of somatic diseases, the waves of enthusiasm healers or prophets. Waves of interest to all sorts of Nostradamus, black holes, the philosophical currents. Epidemic spread in popularity: it is enough poredstvennomu author to arrange a pretty scandal, that a wave of popularity has gone and has provided his earnings for the rest of his life.

Tarantizm

Tarantizm - a disease or a form of hysteria that appeared in Italy in the fifteenth century and wrongly associated with the bite of a tarantula spider, which is actually harmless. The disease arises from the fact that its victims were crying and jumping faster and faster until, until it passed into a mad dance. The victims of this disease is that they can be cured if they are to dance to exhaustion - and, therefore, continued to dance. This disease is distributed as an epidemic, but not by pathogen infection and infection by unfaithful IDEA. That is tarantizm can be seen not only as a mental illness (a form of hysteria), but also as a mild form of disease INFORMATION. Virus information in this case served as the idea that from a spider bite can be cured jumping and dancing.

The epidemic of gambling

School N does not stand out among other schools. And with progress, and with discipline, everything was in order. No one could assume that the looming epidemic. The epidemic started with that on TV was inadvertently shown the film in which children play in the money, hitting the coins against the wall. Game rules were not clear. But the infection has already been paid. It took several months. Two new student came to school, they too saw the film and also did not know the rules of the game. Once the dispute, and each claimed to know the rules. Children played on the money and realized that regardless of the rules they like it. The infection began spreading. Soon after play began in the yard regularly, then at the break.

Already one month later in the game includes all - regardless of gender and age. We played everywhere and constantly, in class, before and after school, during breaks, at all window sills, each wall on each lot. Surge was so strong that teachers were powerless to do anything. Once they stopped the game in one place, she immediately was started in another. It was decided together with her parents not give children money. This event was put into practice, but the medicine did not help, because the virus mutated: the children started picking up on the street brass cups, which at that time were scattered in profusion wherever, and play them, replacing the circles of money. Group of children climbed onto the factory, forcing the wall, with the intent to steal more copper circles. Fortunately, mugs were unnecessary waste production and surprised the workers by goodness of his heart, the children slept a large bag. This bag is in the next few days several times was stolen as a significant value.

Children stole it from each other and for each missing number of discs decreased. As a result, mugs spread fairly evenly among most students. And there was inflation - copper currency has depreciated. But even then, the epidemic has not subsided. Children were playing in debt, and since playing for virtual money can be in a big way, owe each other significant and not the amount of children. The situation became a criminal connotation. Of the houses out things for sale. Insolvent debtors beaten. Began to organize an incipient Mafia. And then the parents could not stand back and started giving money to children.

But for the time until the primary infection was away, the children worked out to her that kind of immunity. They lost interest to play just for money, and yes even for small money. The epidemic has virtually ceased. There was another surge in its brief - to play the test cap from the bottle, and then there was silence. Long duty cleaners were detained in the school and caught all kinds of cracks smaller coins, which in many huddled there during the plague. Sometimes caught and copper mugs.

Some mental illness can be contagious in a psychological sense: for example, close or long contact with a person who shows symptoms of mental illness can lead to the transfer of the symptoms a person or group of people who were previously healthy. This can happen when two people, sick and healthy, long live together or because of the surge in collective emotions - the so-called mass hysteria. Epidemic of mass hysteria normally happen with closed groups of people such as students, national groups, etc.

Transfer of symptoms occurs in the first place to those who mentally vulnerable or have a certain predisposition to it. Typically, the epidemic stops after illness perezarazit all mentally vulnerable members of a particular group and does not extend further. Information contamination can occur through the media. For example, such a disease as nervraya anorexia affects primarily young women who start otkazyvatsya of food, bringing harm to their health - this is due to the influence of mass media that promote a stereotype in good shape.