i'm joined by dr. wendyalsh. >> i was in school for a little while after it started, but i ended up leaving the last week of october because i didn't feel like i could handle school anymore. >> it's hard not being able to do what you love, even going to school. i loved going to school, but it's -- it's hard -- i think it's even harder knowing that i don't know what's going on. like i would be able to answer people if they ask me what's happening. >> wendy, we've been talking about this a little bit, mass hysteria, there are cases of it. could this be a case of mass hysteria? >> it certainly looks like it. this is very common in adolescent girls. i mean, mass hysteria of a conversion disorder. the body converts its anxiety into real physical symptoms. they're not faking. >> what do we know about cases like this? it's real physical symptoms? >> throughout history, we have seen many instances of this happening, predominantly in girls. they start to adopt the same symptoms unconsciously. in 1962 in tanzania, som

dr. wendy watch is here.rew spoke with a teen, so let's listen real quickly. >> i was in school for a little while after it started, but i ended up leaving the last week of october because i didn't feel i could handle school anymore. >> it's hard not being able to do what you love, even going to school. i love going to school. but it's -- it's hard to -- i think it's harder knowing that i don't know what's going on. i'd like to answer people when they ask me what's happening. >> we've been talking about this a little bit. mass hysteria, there are cases of it. could this be a case of mass hysteria? >> it it looks like it. this is very common in adolescent girls. when i say mass hysteria of a conversion disorder. meaning it converts anxiety into real physical symptoms. they're not faking. these are real physical symptoms. >> what do we know about cases like this? it's real physical symptoms. >> throughout history we see many incidences in adolescent girls because at this stage they conform. they have the same j

america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially, are very similar to the properties of substance abuse, and treatment is different in one respect, but the intervention to get people into treatment is very similar. it is similar, but there are differences between the treatment aspect of substance use disorder

dr. drew about. 15 students are experiencing a mysterious medical condition including uncontrollable twitching. wendi walsh is joining me. >> good to see you. >> good to see you in studio. you heard what dr. drew had to say. what do you make of this? >> we have to exclude all possibilities of a biological conditions. this is a real biological illness that can almost be contagious among groups of people. >> we have seen examples of this in the past. >> the shining example is near the beginning of psychological is hysteria where woman would come in blind and unable to walk. their bodies were speaking for them. this is one possibility. >> one possibility. but we don't know until it is fully investigated. >> yes. >> i want to switch topics. we have heard of women marrying men for money but what about a sugar mama? in recent years there has been a role reversal when it comes to marriage and making money. do you think that the husbands are threatened? >> 25% of american marriages the woman is the primary breadwinner. what we are seeing is an unprecedented rise of women. for every two men that graduate coll

dr. wendy, always a pleasure. thank you. spoke with you over the holidays but i want to tell you happy new year. we had a great conversation over christmas, didn't we? >> we did. we had a long telephone chat. >> thank you. happy new year to you and yours. >> thanks, don. take care. >>> just ahead, police in maine changing their tune about the case of a missing little girl. cnn has exclusive new information about this case. 3 ts of sugar a day with splenda®, you'll save 100 calories a day. that could help you lose up to 10 pounds in a year. and now get even more with splenda® essentials, the only line of sweeteners with a small boost of fiber, or antioxidants, or b vitamins in every packet. just another reason why you get more... when you sweeten with splenda®. ♪ >>> we have exclusive new details today in the case of a toddler missing in maine. it's been three weeks since 21-month-old ayla reynolds vanished from her home. police are calling it a criminal investigation. for the first time on television, her paternal grandmothe

i have another doctor, dr. wendysh, say it could be conversion disorder but we don't know right now until all the testing is done. and i have people who are writing to me via social media saying i don't think it's conversion disorder. i think it's a chemicals. what do you make from talking to the girls? >> i spent decades working in a psychiatric hospital. you would be stunned how often i found bonnafied medical conditions underlying the psychiatric syndrome. in this particular case, particularly miss sanchez, there felt like there tl is something organic going on. there let me define conversion for you. it's a way of the body expressing psychiatric or psychological symptoms through blindness, numbness, twitches, this sort of thing much it's a physical manifestation unconscious of an emotional event. does it happen. it happens. there is a contagion. but you doan want to call -- by the way, there may be a component of this in leroy. i have no doubt there might be. you don't want to say everyone's got that until you ha

to help us, human behavior expert dr. wendy walsh joining us.celebrities know they're going to be publicly scrutinized. the rest of us can break our resolutions and nobody knows. >> i want to know if how people make them and by january 8th can't even remember what they are. >> the first the desire, if you make any kind of resolution, it has to come from within yourself. it's not because your husband or wife has nagged to you quit smoking or lose weight or get control of your finances. you have to have the internal desire yourself. that's the first one. >> and desire is one thing, ability, skill at getting it done is another. >> right. so you have to set realistic goals. you have to have the ability. you can't say this is the year that i'm going to climb mount kilimanjaro if you can't climb on to a stair master for 20 minutes. you have to pick realistic goals can you achieve. >> third support, you need support for your change. can't do it alone. >> certainly addiction specialists have proved this over and over and over, that we have a lot of enab

i have -- i had another doctor, dr. wendy and she said it could be conversion disorder but we don't know until all the testing is done. of pim who are writing to me via social media saying i don't think it's conversion disorder. i think it's a chemical. what do you make from talking to the girls? >> i spent decades working in a psychiatric hospital, and my primary job was to make sure that there was not a medical condition contributing to or causing the psychiatric symptoms that were causing the need for hospitalization. and you would be stunned how often i found bona fide medical conditions underlying the psychiatric sin doyndromsyndrom. in this particular situation, it just felt like there was something organic going on. yes, there are psychiatric symptoms and let me define conversion for you since you asked what that is. basically it's a way of the body expressing psychiatric or psychological symptoms through blindness, numbness, twitches, seizuring, this sort of thing. it's a physical manifestation unconscious of an emoti

dr. martin luther king. >>> good evening everyone. i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm wendy rieger.ight off. we'll begin with the deadly cruise ship disaster in italy. six people killed when the ship ran aground friday night and the search continues for 16 others still missing. among those an american couple from minnesota. >>> the ship's captain remains in jail on