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The Full Moon,
Mood Swings and Crazy People
CAN
A FULL MOON AFFECT YOUR MOOD?
DOES
THE MOON MAKE PEOPLE CRAZY?
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The Latin
name for the Moon — “Luna” — is the root of modern words like “lunacy,”
“lunatic” and even “loon,” as in “crazy as a loon.” Hundreds of studies
have failed to turn up evidence of the lunar influence. We call widespread
beliefs that are unsupported by fact folklore.
By Tim Clark
Can the Moon affect your mood?
Does it make people crazy?
Unless you plan to ask a werewolf (which we
don’t recommend), it might be time to explore the myths and reality.
THE
LUNAR CONNECTION
Ancient authorities like Aristotle,
Paracelsus, and Pliny the Elder thought some humans were driven crazy by the
full Moon.
The Latin name for the Moon — “Luna” — is
the root of modern words like “lunacy,” “lunatic” and even “loon,” as in “crazy
as a loon.”
But is there really a lunar connection to
abnormal behavior?
Science says no.
Hundreds of studies have failed to turn up
evidence of the lunar influence.
And those few studies that suggest a
connection are usually disproved or contradicted by others:
o one study says more
animal bites (from cats, rats, dogs, horses) occur at the full Moon
o another says
there’s no increase in dog bites
o one shows an
increase in crime around the full Moon
o others find no increase
in arrests, calls for police assistance, prison assaults, batteries, or
homicides
o admissions for
psychosis are lowest during the full Moon, and psychiatric emergency room
visits decline
o calls to suicide
prevention hotlines peak at the new Moon, not the full Moon
If you’re working
in an emergency room, and something weird happens on the full Moon, your older
and wiser colleagues nod and say, “Must
be a full Moon.”
That’s what they heard from their elders
when they were new at the job. (Psychologists have a name for that, too:
“communal reinforcement.”)
But if something
weird happens at a different phase of the lunar cycle, nobody says, “Must be the third quarter Moon!”
And when nothing unusual happens on the
full Moon, nobody says anything.
We call widespread beliefs that are
unsupported by fact folklore.
Erika Brady, who
teaches folklore at Western Kentucky University, says, “it’s a way of imposing order on something that feels frighteningly out
of control.”
How does a belief that strange things
happen on the full Moon help us feel safer?
Therefore, this folk belief implies that
our fears about everything from increased bleeding to werewolves may be limited
to only 12 or 13 days per year.
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