Suburban Disorientation Disease(SDD)

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Have you guys heard about this disease? Its called Suburban Disorientation Disease (SDD).

It was detected by scientists based in New England in the late 1990s. Its completely new to me, but I found this article in the new England journal of medicine.

"In its most severe form, the SDD have document itself to be deadly.There is however treatments available, such as removing the patient from all types of residential suburban areas.

The main symptoms is both psychical and psychological. They include: muscle/heart pain, dizziness, extreme imaginary thinking/obsessions about suburbs, I strong desire for everything to look the same, such as buildings and gardens, feelings of discomfort when forced to leave a suburban area, etc.

The exact cause of the disease is unknown. However, since the disease was first detected, many theory's have been presented. One of the most accepted theory's states that the disease is a form of strong dependency, both physical and psychological dependency.
Very little scientific material is available for scientists as of today, but SDD is believed to be some complex form of dependency syndrome."

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/18/1885

Have you heard about this before?

I can't access that article, but I have read the work of James Howard Kunstler about the poverty of the suburban landscape. There is no doubt it leads to an unhealthy mental atmosphere.

Your link doesn't work, and there is nothing in Pubmed or Google about the term you mentioned.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ&feature=related[/youtube]

Here is his premise.

"The greatest misappropriation of resources in the history of the world." Sounds about right to me. As the price of gasoline keeps rising, more people will start to see that.

Nice BMW commercial in Iceland at the end - makes me long for the old days when I lived there.

I have never understood why anyone would want to live in one of those cookie-cutter communities. Perhaps the mental illness preceeded and influenced the decision about where to live?