Dh changes when a full moon

yeah, but you don't know he's not a werewolf, he could be, Awoooooo

That is where the term lunacy came from, the theory was that moons 'luna' and tides caused madness.

In the same kind of eras where hysteria was why women were mad. The theory being that the womb (hyster) was wandering around the body making women mad and you could coax it back into place by putting tempting herbs and other things up the fanny or make it go back into place by eating horrible things that would scare it away from the upper body and back into the lower body.

Hysteria in psychiatry later morphed to mean physical symptoms caused by psychological issues which could be experienced by men or women.

My Great-Grandad was in the 1st WW from 9th September 1914 as already in the army. At the battle of the Somme among other horrors of 4 years in the trenches.

Discharged as medically unfit 6 months after the end of the end of the war due to 'Hysteria aphonia' - he was washing bandages still in France and lost his voice. Had psychotherapy which brought his voice back but with a previously unpresent stammer which resolved with more therapy.

Now we'd call it FND or PTSD, not hysteria.

So all bollocks really in terms of what the Greek medical terms meant.

I have heard (although never found evidence as such) that’s where the term Lunacy came from.

I’ve always believed it because the moon affects tides due to gravity and humans are full of water 🤷‍♀️

For me though I’ve seen the evidence. And Antonine PO who said about seizure activity increasing over a FM. That’s springing deal with in my job and have seen a correlation.

@kattyjean

'AI tells me this is a myth and there is no such data'

I bet that was Claude. He can be a bit unreliable at certain times, he says it's not his fault but due to the spring tides. We all avoid him in the canteen around these times.

Amazing how we find reasons for men behaving badly!

My DS had epilepsy, and his seizures were more frequent and prolonged at a full moon - I didnt see the connection, just tracked the data for his epilepsy nurse to review, she spotted the connection instantly and said it was common in her experience - told me to buy a diary/calender with a moon cycle to help manage symptoms/future plan. She was spot on, when I back filled the info aligned with moon cycles.

It is a theory I have heard, but I wasn't being entirely serious in repeating it. The "obviously" clearly didn't do as much heavy lifting as I thought...

ETA: If there was anything to this theory, it would be about when the moon is at apogee or perigee.

Friends husband works in hospital for criminal insane and apparently a lot of the patients get worse when it happens

My friend did her undergraduate dissertation on this (because we worked in hospitals where some staff would blame behaviours on the full moon) and she found zero evidence to support it.

I worked in a call centre years ago and it was a standing joke that the nutters came out of the woodwork customers were more "challenging" when there was a full moon.

The joys of working with the general public.

Not overrun but definately a few more mh issues

It’s a thing!!! I have worked in education for decades and was always told when the class got more feral “it’s a full moon” and I was always skeptical’

Now I’m head of behaviour - and he’s, they are my busiest days 🤣

I would have no idea it’s a full moon I only know because I sense it and check and it always is

Busier in terms of more patients turning up? By how much?

I read yrs ago that Sussex or Essex police drafted in extra police when it was a full moon. A&E's are also busier at these times.
Just saying

This. Like the ‘the periods of women living in close proximity synchronise’. Has been studied often, and no data backs it up.

So I will ask again, why isn’t there data to back it? With the amount of data collected via hospitals and police it would show clear spikes in certain things?

I work in care and the amount of times someone has said ‘bloody hell whats going on, is it a full moon or something?!’ And we’ve checked and it is, can’t be a coincidence. So it’s not just because we know it’s a full moon and are on the look out for it.

and I don’t think it’s confirmation bias because I do remember a time (but only one time) where someone said it and it wasn’t a full moon- almost always it is

I agree with this. The full moon can really give you a rubbish night's sleep, probably just because it's so bright and light outside all night. A bad night's sleep leads to irritability.

Its not your imagination. Every nurse in the land knows it will all go tits up on the full moon and patients will run amok.

So why isnt there any evidence to back it? It would be so easy to evidence, I think people have just encouraged it and it’s just confirmation bias at this point.

of course the full moon affects people! given "that we're mostly made of water, think of the effect of the moon on the tides etc and on nature. of course it affects us as well"

As a previous poster pointed out this comment is largely hokum. There is a difference in gravity from the oceans facing the moon and the oceans on the opposite side of the Earth, causing bulges in those bodies of water and low tides in the areas between them.

This difference is negligible for a human being....

I still think the PP has an obvious anti-moon agenda.

The reason that lunatics where so called absolutely was because it was believed that the moon made people mad. That it isnt true doesnt mean that this wasnt considered a medical fact at the time.

I think you're a biased source on this one.

The full moon does modestly reduce sleep quality, which can make people a bit grouchier.

But crime rates and ER admissions are so easy to measure that any real behavioural impact would be obvious — and the evidence is somewhere between "non-existent" and "extremely thin".