Y2K Pro recently posted: "Doomers, your affliction has been noticed..." and reproduced an article concerning "Millennium Madness" in Britain.

Let's see what the Electronic Telegraph says about it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000154642417163&rtmo=fMqvVfVs&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/99/7/19/nmil19.html

ISSUE 1515, Monday, 19 July 1999

Cases of 'Year 2000 psychosis' emerging

NURSES working near the Millennium Dome are preparing for cases of end-of-the-century psychosis.

"Millennium psychosis" has already started emerging, according to a report in Nursing Times magazine. Oxleas NHS Trust, the mental health service provider in Greenwich, south-east London, has dealt with eight or nine admissions since March.

A typical case involved a patient believing he had swallowed the potentially dangerous Millennium bug, and by keeping it in his body until 2000 would save millions of lives, even though it might kill him. Another patient went on a destructive rampage because voices told him if he broke down the walls he would free people for the Millennium.

Stanley Risborough, mental health service manager at Oxleas NHS Trust, said: "When the Dome opens, the Millennium will come even more into the consciousness of people who are unwell."

It was not unusual for psychosis to be rooted to specific events, he said. During the 1960s space race, many patients felt they had been infected with moon rays and in the 1990s there was an obsession with HIV.

Chris Naikin, an acute admissions charge nurse, said: "We remain concerned about the vulnerability of this patient group. I am expecting problems among them around October."

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), July 19, 1999

Answers

Thanks for correcting the impression that we all nutters over here in the UK,Old Git.The fact is that most people can't understand what all the fuss is about.

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), July 19, 1999.

They are describing patients with schizophrenia who have incorporated elements of contemporary discussion into their delusional systems.

-- Spidey (in@jam.commie), July 19, 1999.