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Tag: hysteria

PTSD in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

December 12, 2025 Gordon Harris2 Comments
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The Great Migration brought nearly 14,000 Puritan settlers, unprepared for the hardships and trauma that awaited them. Building a new society in the wilderness induced transgenerational post-traumatic stress culminating in the Salem Witch Trials, which some professionals describe as mass conversion disorder.

Posted in Commentary, HistoryTagged colonial ptsd, conspiracy, hysteria, Native Americans, Puritans, witches
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