Alien abductees
suffer for real

Maybe four million Americans believe they've been abducted by Gray Ones, and they are so convinced of the experience they suffer symptons similar to traumatized war veterans -- so sez the BBC.

But since scientists have decided its so impossible for that to have happened, the paralytic sleep and the wild hallucinations the abductees go through can't be the result of actual injuries,

So, comes the question: do hypochondriacs who get sick because they think they are feel any less ill than they would have if they really were? Story