Ok, I admit that I'm sort of hooked on the medical drama "House, M.D.". Usually it focusses on one patient with an array of symptoms that can't be placed to a single illness, so lots of tests are done until the brilliant doctor has an epiphany and discovers what's wrong with the patient. The show has been widely acclaimed for its medical accuracy.
But today I saw an episode about a girl who had all kinds of symptoms that couldn't be explained, but when Dr. House saw the girl having a conversation with her mother and expressing how it was her own fault that she ended up in the hospital, House immediately realised that the girl's guilt must be caused by B12 deficiency (turns out a tapeworm in her abdomen was causing most of her symptoms and also eating up all her B12).
Is this medically accurate at all? I should mention that I never put faith in medical shows for accuracy LOL, but since this show is usually praised for this, I was wondering if "guilt" is a documented symptom of B12 deficiency.
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